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Kirsten McKenzie studied at the University of Cape Town. She completed her doctorate as a Rhodes Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford, and joined the History Department of the University of Sydney in 2002. She employs the perspectives of cultural history to ask questions about the relationship between identity, social status and political liberties in the early nineteenth-century British Empire. Her publications include Scandal in the Colonies: Sydney and Cape Town, 1820–1850 (2004) and A
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Téléchargez le livre :  Inquiring into Empire
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Inquiring into Empire

Lisa Ford , Kirsten Mckenzie , Naomi Parkinson , David Andrew Roberts


Cambridge University Press

2025-02-28

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This is the first history to grapple with the vast project of British imperial investigation in the years between the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and the Great Reform Act. Beginning in 1819, commissions of inquiry were sent to examine law, governance,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutions
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Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutions


Jan C. Jansen , Kirsten Mckenzie


The political upheavals and military confrontations that rocked the world during the decades around 1800 saw forced migrations on a massive scale. This global history brings this explosion into full view. Rather than describing coerced mobilities as an aberration in a...

Parution : 2024-05-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Imperial Underworld
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Imperial Underworld


Kirsten Mckenzie


During a major overhaul of British imperial policy following the Napoleonic Wars, an escaped convict reinvented himself as an improbable activist, renowned for his exposés of government misconduct and corruption in the Cape Colony and New South Wales. Charting scandals...

Parution : 2016-01-14
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Télécharger le livre :  The Captain's Wife
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The Captain's Wife


Kirsten Mckenzie


1762. Mary is desperate to escape her embittered mother. So when her marriage to a prosperous sea captain is arranged, she embraces the damp salt air, cramped conditions and bad food. She sets sail on the Isabella, away from the land of her childhood towards unseen...

Parution : 2010-08-05
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : John Murray
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Télécharger le livre :  The Chapel at the Edge of the World
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The Chapel at the Edge of the World


Kirsten Mckenzie


Emilio and Rosa are childhood sweethearts, engaged to be married. But it is 1942 and the war has takenEmilio far from Italy, to a tiny Orkney island where he is a POW. Rosa must wait for him to return and help her mother run the family hotel on the shores of Lake Como,...

Parution : 2009-07-09
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : John Murray
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