Routledge history of western empires, 

Автор: Waller R. Newell
Название: Tyrants: Power, Injustice, and Terror
ISBN: 1108713912 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108713917
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book will appeal to anyone interested in the danger posed by tyranny and terror in today`s world, the psychology of tyranny, and how it is shaped by the history of fiction, art, and architecture. Written in a clear, colorful style, the book is suitable for readers of all levels.

Автор: Chappell, M.
Название: The British Army in World War I (2)
ISBN: 1841764000 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841764009
Издательство: Osprey
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Описание: This volume covers the years of the "big pushes": the costly mistakes of the Somme in 1916, and Third Ypres - the infamous Passchendaele battle - in 1917. The author goes on to describe the successful defensive fighting against the great German offensive of spring 1918.

Автор: Clark, Gregory
Название: Farewell to alms
ISBN: 0691141282 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691141282
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Описание: Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor? Why did the Industrial Revolution occur in eighteenth-century England, and not at some other time, or in some other place? This title tackles these profound questions and suggests a fresh way in which culture explains the wealth, and the poverty, of nations.

Автор: Gildea, Robert (university Of Oxford)
Название: Empires of the mind
ISBN: 1316612333 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316612330
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Prize-winning historian Robert Gildea shows that how empires did not vanish after 1945 but were constantly reinvented as neo-colonialisms. He shows how postwar immigration from the former colonies provoked racism, segregation and exclusion in metropolitan Britain and France and how imperial nostalgia has bedevilled Britain`s relations with Europe.

Автор: A. C. Grayling
Название: Towards the Light: The Story of the Struggles for Liberty and Rights that Made the Modern West
ISBN: 1472532147 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472532145
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: In Towards the Light, A.C. Grayling tells the story of the long and difficult battle for freedom in the West, from the Reformation to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, from the battle for the vote to the struggle for the right to freedom of conscience. As Grayling passionately affirms, it is a story - and a struggle - that continues to this day as those in power use the threat of terrorism in the 21st century to roll-back the liberties that so many have fought and died to win for us. Including an appendix of landmark documents, including the British and American Bills of Rights and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, the Bloomsbury Revelations edition also includes a new preface by the author reflecting on developments since the book's original publication.

Автор: Fradera Josep
Название: The Imperial Nation: Citizens and Subjects in the British, French, Spanish, and American Empires
ISBN: 0691217343 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691217345
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Описание: How the legacy of monarchical empires shaped Britain, France, Spain, and the United States as they became liberal entitiesHistorians view the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as a turning point when imperial monarchies collapsed and modern nations emerged. Treating this pivotal moment as a bridge rather than a break, The Imperial Nation offers a sweeping examination of four of these modern powers-Great Britain, France, Spain, and the United States-and asks how, after the great revolutionary cycle in Europe and America, the history of monarchical empires shaped these new nations. Josep Fradera explores this transition, paying particular attention to the relations between imperial centers and their sovereign territories and the constant and changing distinctions placed between citizens and subjects.

Fradera argues that the essential struggle that lasted from the Seven Years' War to the twentieth century was over the governance of dispersed and varied peoples: each empire tried to ensure domination through subordinate representation or by denying any representation at all. The most common approach echoed Napoleon's "special laws," which allowed France to reinstate slavery in its Caribbean possessions. The Spanish and Portuguese constitutions adopted "specialness" in the 1830s; the United States used comparable guidelines to distinguish between states, territories, and Indian reservations; and the British similarly ruled their dominions and colonies.

In all these empires, the mix of indigenous peoples, European-origin populations, slaves and indentured workers, immigrants, and unassimilated social groups led to unequal and hierarchical political relations. Fradera considers not only political and constitutional transformations but also their social underpinnings. Presenting a fresh perspective on the ways in which nations descended and evolved from and throughout empires, The Imperial Nation highlights the ramifications of this entangled history for the subjects who lived in its shadows.

Автор: Benjamin Craig
Название: Cambridge World History
ISBN: 1108407714 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108407717
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: From 1200 BCE to 900 CE, the world witnessed the rise of powerful new states and empires, as well as networks of cross-cultural exchange and conquest. Leading scholars explore the economic, political, social, cultural and intellectual developments that accompanied these developments at global, interregional and regional levels.

Автор: Biedermann, Zoltan (senior Lecturer In Luso-brazilian Studies, Senior Lecturer In Luso-brazilian Studies, University College London)
Название: (dis)connected empires
ISBN: 0192884182 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780192884183
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: (Dis)connected Empires offers a new contribution to the current debate on the role of global history in a world of resurgent nationalisms. Biedermann explores the world of early diplomatic connections between Europe and Asia in the Renaissance, focusing on the rarely told story of Portuguese encounters with the Buddhist kingdoms of Sri Lanka.

Автор: Griffith, Paddy
Название: Fortifications of the Western Front 1914–18
ISBN: 1841767603 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841767604
Издательство: Osprey
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Описание: Following the early battles of 1914 along the Marne and in the Ypres salient. World War I rapidly transformed from a war of movement into one of attrition, with the opposing sides entrenching themselves in a line of fortified positions from the Flanders coastline to the Swiss border.

Автор: Andrade Tonio
Название: The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China
ISBN: 0691177112 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691177113
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Описание: From the acclaimed author of The Gunpowder Age, a book that casts new light on the history of China and the West at the turn of the nineteenth centuryGeorge Macartney's disastrous 1793 mission to China plays a central role in the prevailing narrative of modern Sino-European relations. Summarily dismissed by the Qing court, Macartney failed in nearly all of his objectives, perhaps setting the stage for the Opium Wars of the nineteenth century and the mistrust that still marks the relationship today. But not all European encounters with China were disastrous.

The Last Embassy tells the story of the Dutch mission of 1795, bringing to light a dramatic but little-known episode that transforms our understanding of the history of China and the West. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Tonio Andrade paints a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of an age marked by intrigues and war. China was on the brink of rebellion.

In Europe, French armies were invading Holland. Enduring a harrowing voyage, the Dutch mission was to be the last European diplomatic delegation ever received in the traditional Chinese court. Andrade shows how, in contrast to the British emissaries, the Dutch were men with deep knowledge of Asia who respected regional diplomatic norms and were committed to understanding China on its own terms.

Beautifully illustrated with sketches and paintings by Chinese and European artists, The Last Embassy suggests that the Qing court, often mischaracterized as arrogant and narrow-minded, was in fact open, flexible, curious, and cosmopolitan.

Автор: Kirsten McKenzie
Название: A Cultural History of Western Empires in the Age of Empire
ISBN: 1350358258 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350358256
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Between 1800 and 1920, the territory and influence claimed by Western empires came to cover a larger portion of the globe than at any time before or since. Why and how did this happen? What were the consequences of this unprecedented scramble for dominion? What methods have historians used to understand the increasingly large and structurally complex Western empires that emerged across the long 19th century?In this fifth volume, A Cultural History of Western Empires in the Age of Empire, we trace these questions across a period bookended by two devastating global wars. The forces that enabled unparalleled Western expansion were likewise violent. Often no less traumatically, the phenomenon was also one of cultural exchange and negotiated identities in which both colonized and colonizer were repeatedly made and remade. As cultural historians we locate the power struggles of empire as much in identity and ways of life as in the movement of armies or the signing of treaties. New technologies of communication, transport and warfare brought an ‘Age of Empire’ into existence for the West. But it was equally grounded in new ways of thinking about human difference and new beliefs about the state’s power to intervene in the most intimate domains of human behavior.

Название: Cultural history of western empires
ISBN: 1474242758 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474242752
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: A Cultural History of Western Empires presents historians, and scholars and students of related fields, with the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of empire from ancient times to modernity. With six highly illustrated volumes covering 2500 years, this is the definitive reference work on the subject, comprising: Volume 1. A Cultural History of Western Empires in Antiquity (500BCE-800CE) Volume 2. A Cultural History of Western Empires in the Middle Ages (800-1450) Volume 3. A Cultural History of Western Empires in the Renaissance (1450-1650) Volume 4. A Cultural History of Western Empires in the Age of Enlightenment (1650-1800) Volume 5. A Cultural History of Western Empires in the Age of Empire (1800-1920) Volume 6. A Cultural History of Western Empires in the Modern Age (1920-2000+) Each volume adopts the same thematic structure, covering: War, Trade, Natural worlds, Labor, Mobility, Sexuality, Resistance and Race, enabling readers to trace one theme throughout history, as well as gaining a thorough overview of each individual period.