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The British in India, first as adventurers, then as traders and finally as rulers through the India Office in London and the Viceroy's Government in India, oversaw all aspects of Indian life - district administrations, law, police, army, trade, education and culture and relations with princely states and foreign powers. And yet a sense of alienation among the British always remained. The end came quickly with Indian independence in 1947, and...

Romanticism had its roots in fantasy and fed on myth'. So Roderick Cavaliero introduces the European Romantic obsession with the Orient.Cavaliero draws on a life-time's research in Romantic literature and introduces a rich cast of leading Romantic writers, artists, musicians and travellers, including Beckford, Byron, Shelley, Walter Scott, Pierre Loti, Thomas Moore, Rossini, Eugene Delacroix, Thackeray and Disraeli, and a host of other Romanti...

Provides readers with a unique perspective on Germany in an age of transition, covering everything from Goethe to Wagner, and written in an easily accessible and compelling narrative style.

What had seemed to Grand Tourists a museum of idealized antiquity and Renaissance art became--in the eyes of Byron, Keats, Shelley and a host of other visitors--a nation struggling to assert itself but not quite able to do so. "Italia Romantica" is a vivid history of the English Romantics' love affair with Italy and of the changing attitudes in pre-unification Italy. Roderick Cavaliero's compelling story is full of bandits, unreformed Catholic...

In the eyes of the English Romantics, Italy was not a nation but "Italia, " a place inhabited by the ancient. Theirs was a view shaped by the eighteenth century, the age of the Grand Tour, when no future nobleman's education was complete without a visit to Venice's carnival, the majestic ruins of the Forum in Rome, or the legendary Mount Vesuvius. "Italia Romantica" is a vivid history of the English Romantics' love affair with Italy. Through t...

This account of Suffren's career in the Indies provides not only a study of one major naval campaign, but also an in-depth analysis of naval strategy and tactics, warfare and the importance of Suffren's revolutionary role and its effect on later naval campaigns.

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The Indian Empire was the jewel in the crown and Queen Victoria was Empress of India. But the end came with Indian independence in 1947 and the British left a divided sub-continent. This text examines the complex relationship between Britain and India.

Romanticism had its roots in fantasy and fed on myth. This work introduces the nineteenth-century European Romantic obsession with the Orient. It is suitable for readers interested in tales of the Orient and the literature of the Romantic movement.