Victor Gordon Kiernan

A description of the evolution of the duel from its medieval origins to the early 20th century; its role in Europe's military, religious and legal history and in the ascendancy of the aristocratic classes.

Honour and the Reign of Aristocracy

The Duel in European History

Sir Muhammad Iqbal

Allama Muhammad Iqbal was acknowledged during his lifetime as the most important poet of Muslim India in the twentieth century, both for the quality of his verse and for the influence exercised by his ideas. Since his death in 1938, his fame has continued to grow and has reached the West through a number of English studies and translations. Most of the latter have been his philosophical poetry in Persian. This volume contains a rendering in English of over a hundred poems chosen from the four collections of Iqbal's poetry written in Urdu, which include religious, lyrical, satirical and other themes. the English versions are accompained by the original text.

Poems From Iqbal

European Attitudes Towards the Outside World in the Imperial Age

The Lords of Human Kinds

With a New Foreword

British Diplomacy in China, 1880 to 1885

European Attitudes to the Outside World in the Age of Imperialism

The Lords of Human Kind

Metcalfe's Mission to Lahore, 1808-1809

Studies

Marxism and Imperialism

Erudite, ironic, and global in its scope, this book is a definitive guide to the history of racism and Eurocentrism.

The lords of human kind

A wide-ranging book which brings within a single view the wars which created Europe's empires. Beginning with the post-Napoleonic era, it presents all the major episodes of an often dramatic story in which the military agents of European imperialism met the peoples of the rest of the world in armed conflict.

Colonial Empires and Armies, 1815-1960

Detailed study of a brief but vital period in Spanish history marked by the revival of the liberal movement and its almost immediate decline.

The Revolution of 1854 in Spanish History

European Empires from 1815 to 1960

From Conquest to Collapse

Sir MUḢAMMAD IK̇BĀL

Poems from Iqbal. Translated by V.G. Kiernan

Intellectuals in History

Harvey J. Kaye

Selected Writings of V.G. Kiernan

History, Classes, and Nation-states

Using a stunning array of sources - missionaries' memoirs, the letters of diplomats' wives, explorers' diaries and the work of writers as diverse as Voltaire, Thackeray, Oliver Goldsmith and, of course, Kipling - Victor Kiernan teases out the full range of European attitudes to other peoples. Erudite, ironic and global in its scope, The Lords of Human Kind has been a major influence on a generation of historians and cultural critics and is a landmark in the history of Eurocentrism.

European Attitudes to Other Cultures in the Imperial Age

Poets, Politics, and the People

An extraordinarily wide-ranging book which brings within a single view the wars which created Europe's empires. Beginning with the post-Napoleonic era, it presents all the major episodes of an often dramatic story in which the military agents of European imperialism met the peoples of the rest of the world in armed conflict. Brilliant sketches of far-off battles and campaigns are interwoven with the changing balance of economic and political power, until the colonial liberation movements turned the tables in the aftermath of the Second World War.

European Empires from Conquest to Collapse, 1815-1960

Tobacco is inseparable from the rise of the West to power and wealth. Many a battle, famous novel and tragic moment has been wreathed in tobacco smoke. The drug dulled the nerves of exhausted labourers and stimulated the brains of great writers. Kiernan charts the spread of tobacco, the ways it was consumed, its social symbolism and its long decline into an anti-social habit.

Victor Gordon Kiernan

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