Intimate Empire, von Winning, Alexa (Lecturer, Lecturer, Institute for Eastern European History and Area Studies, Tuebingen University)

Автор: Wood Gordon S.
Название: Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
ISBN: 0199832463 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199832460
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: A magnificent new volume in the acclaimed Oxford History of the United States, written by the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Gordon S. Wood.

Автор: Gomez Michael
Название: African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa
ISBN: 0691196826 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691196824
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: In a radically new account of the importance of early Africa in global history, Gomez traces how Islam`s growth in West Africa, along with intensifying commerce that included slaves, resulted in a series of political experiments unique to the region, culminating in the rise of empire.

Автор: Scheidel Walter
Название: Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity
ISBN: 0691216738 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691216737
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Описание: The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern worldThe fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this groundbreaking book, Walter Scheidel argues that Rome's dramatic collapse was actually the best thing that ever happened, clearing the path for Europe's economic rise and the creation of the modern age. Ranging across the entire premodern world, Escape from Rome offers new answers to some of the biggest questions in history: Why did the Roman Empire appear? Why did nothing like it ever return to Europe? And, above all, why did Europeans come to dominate the world? In an absorbing narrative that begins with ancient Rome but stretches far beyond it, from Byzantium to China and from Genghis Khan to Napoleon, Scheidel shows how the demise of Rome and the enduring failure of empire-building on European soil launched an economic transformation that changed the continent and ultimately the world.

Автор: Rina Kent, Kent
Название: Empire of desire
ISBN: 1685450008 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781685450007
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Описание: "Powered by insight and true wit." - Meg Wolitzer, New York Times bestselling author of The Female Persuasion. "I can`t remember the last time I was as completely bewitched by a fictional character as I was by Bea Seger . . . What a treat to view life through the eyes of this funny, smart, gutsy woman." - Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and Chances Are...

Автор: Lester, Alan (university Of Sussex) Boehme, Kate (university Of Leicester) Mitchell, Peter (university Of Sussex)
Название: Ruling the world
ISBN: 110844489X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108444897
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Provides a more balanced understanding of the British Empire and reveals how the men in charge of the most diverse empire in history enforced their ideas of freedom, civilization and liberalism around the world as they managed some of the greatest crises of the Victorian period.

Автор: Schreuder, Deryck; Ward, Stuart
Название: Australia`s Empire
ISBN: 0199273731 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199273737
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Australia`s Empire is the first collaborative evaluation of Australia`s imperial experience in more than a generation. Bringing together poltical, cultural, and aboriginal understandings of the past, it argues that the legacies of empire continue to influence the fabric of modern Australian society.

Автор: Kama Maclean
Название: British India, White Australia: Overseas Indians, Intercolonial Relations and the Empire
ISBN: 1742236219 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781742236216
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: ‘Commonwealth, curry and cricket’ has become the belaboured phrase by which Australia seeks to emphasise its shared colonial heritage with India and improve bilateral relations in the process. Yet it is misleading because the legacy of empire differs in profound ways in both countries. Indians may be the fastest-growing group of migrants to Australia, but they have long been present.

British India, White Australia explores connections between Australia and India through the lens of the British Empire, by tracing the lives of people of Indian descent in Australia, from Australian Federation to Indian independence. The White Australia Policy was firmly in place while both countries were part of the British Empire. Australia was nominally self-governing but still attached very strongly to Britain; India was driven by the desire for independence. The racist immigration policies of dominions like Australia, and Britain’s inability to reform them, further animated nationalist sentiments in India.

Kama Maclean has undertaken extensive archival research in all three countries and the book includes cartoons and photographs, many of them shocking, that reflect attitudes of the time. In this original, landmark work she calls for more meaningful dialogue and acknowledgment of the constraints placed upon Indians in Australia and those attempting to immigrate. The force of white imperialism was strong: some Australians may have found solidarity with the cause of Indian nationalism, but at the point British India ceased to exist, White Australia remained steadfast. Indians are now the fastest-growing group of migrants in Australia, yet their presence has a long history, as told in this book.

Автор: Darwin
Название: The Empire Project
ISBN: 0521317894 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521317894
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: A magisterial global history of the rise and fall of the British Empire during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. John Darwin charts how the Empire was first strengthened, then weakened and finally severed on the rollercoaster of global economic, political and geostrategic upheaval on which it rode from beginning to end.

Автор: Tiwari Niamh
Название: Love, Honour, and Jealousy
ISBN: 0198840373 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198840374
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: As the economic miracle of the 1950s and 1960s transformed Italy from a poor and largely rural nation into a prosperous, modern one, attitudes to love changed too. This book draws on unpublished personal testimonies of ordinary men and women, exploring their thoughts on courtship, marriage, honour, forced marriage, jealousy, and marriage breakdown.

Автор: Ambaras, David R. (north Carolina State University)
Название: Asian connections
ISBN: 1108455220 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108455220
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Vivid accounts of human experience at the margins of empire shed new light on Sino-Japanese relations in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This study centers on categories of people not usually considered in the context of East Asian mobility of the period, including trafficked children, peddlers, `abducted` women and a female pirate.

Автор: Ambaras David R
Название: Japan`s Imperial Underworlds
ISBN: 1108470114 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108470117
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Vivid accounts of human experience at the margins of empire shed new light on Sino-Japanese relations in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This study centers on categories of people not usually considered in the context of East Asian mobility of the period, including trafficked children, peddlers, `abducted` women and a female pirate.

Автор: Bruce Gilley
Название: Last Imperialist
ISBN: 1684512174 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781684512171
Издательство: Simon&Schuster UK
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Описание: The British Empire, one of the most powerful forces in history, was also one of the most humane. Yet at its twilight, few were willing to defy the anti-colonial reaction that condemned millions to despotism under the regimes that replaced it. Sir Alan Burns was among them.

In this lively and provocative work of history, Bruce Gilley vindicates Sir Alan's view that decolonization was poorly managed and too swiftly executed, a view based not on imperialist nostalgia but on a sober assessment of the ravages of the twentieth century.

Gilley demonstrates that Burns understood the benefits of colonial rule and correctly foretold the chaos that accompanied its rapid dissolution.

Relying on previously unavailable documentation from Burns's family, The Last Imperialist dethrones the revisionist historians and shatters their unbalanced accusations against European colonialism. This is history writing at its most courageous.

"Bruce Gilley has had to endure the most vituperative attacks for arguing that the European empires conferred benefits as well as imposed costs. . . Now, with this absorbing biography . . . Bruce Gilley has written a compelling as well as courageous work." --Niall Ferguson, Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University