Lawrence James, Author . St. Martin's $35 (880p) ISBN 978-0-312-30737-0
This imposing history of is less a recounting of British feats of arms than of the creation of a British nation by the wars in the British Isles—England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Beginning with the Roman conquest, James (The Rise and Fall
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Lawrence James, St. Martin’s, $32.50 (448p) ISBN 978-0-312-61545-1
Descended from the early knights, British nobility seized greater power with the Magna Carta, birthed English politics and performed a delicate balancing act with rulers who embraced the "divine right of kings," regardless of its effect on either...
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Lawrence James, Author Paragon House Publishers $24.95 (406p) ISBN 978-1-55778-579-4
The image of the British hero soldier T. (Thomas) E. (Edward) Lawrence (1888-1935) is tarnished by James ( The Savage Wars: The British Conquest of Africa, 1870-1920 ). The biographer, who obtained access to formerly unavailable documents,...
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Lawrence James, Author St. Martin's Press $35 (544p) ISBN 978-0-312-19322-5
Even though James gives relatively short shrift to the period between the battle of Plassey (1757) and the second Maratha war (1817-1818), when the East India Company used arms and bribery to take over the Indian subcontinent, this is still a big...
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Lawrence James. Pegasus, $28.95 (448p) ISBN 978-1-60598-569-5
James (The Rise and Fall of the British Empire) offers a fresh, welcome perspective on the exhaustively-analyzed Churchill by focusing narrowly here on his "ardent and unswerving faith in the British Empire." Throughout his long life, Churchill...
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Lawrence James, Author, Lloyd James, Author St. Martin's Press $35 (720p) ISBN 978-0-312-14039-7
James, a British historian whose previous books have dealt chiefly with military matters, writes engagingly about the British Empire from the time of Sir Walter Raleigh at the beginning of the 17th century to Nelson Mandela at the end of the 20th....
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Lawrence James. Pegasus, $28.95 (416p) ISBN 978-1-68177-463-3
In this straightforward overview, English historian James (Churchill and Empire) competently charts the rise of European empire building in Africa and the subsequent demise of those same empires. Beginning with the French capture of Algiers in 1830...
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