Allure of Empire, Suh, Chris (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Emory 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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Цена: 17410.00 T
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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: BuYun Chen
Название: Empire of Style: Silk and Fashion in Tang China
ISBN: 0295745304 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295745305
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Tang dynasty (618-907) China hummed with cosmopolitan trends. Its capital at Chang'an was the most populous city in the world and was connected via the Silk Road with the critical markets and thriving cultures of Central Asia and the Middle East. In Empire of Style, BuYun Chen reveals a vibrant fashion system that emerged through the efforts of Tang artisans, wearers, and critics of clothing. Across the empire, elite men and women subverted regulations on dress to acquire majestic silks and au courant designs, as shifts in economic and social structures gave rise to what we now recognize as precursors of a modern fashion system: a new consciousness of time, a game of imitation and emulation, and a shift in modes of production.

This first book on fashion in premodern China is informed by archaeological sources--paintings, figurines, and silk artifacts--and textual records such as dynastic annals, poetry, tax documents, economic treatises, and sumptuary laws. Tang fashion is shown to have flourished in response to a confluence of social, economic, and political changes that brought innovative weavers and chic court elites to the forefront of history.

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Автор: Rina Kent, Kent
Название: Empire of desire
ISBN: 1685450008 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781685450007
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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: Worthington Ian
Название: By the Spear: Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Empire
ISBN: 0190614641 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190614645
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: A unique military and cultural history that chronicles the reigns of Philip and Alexander the Great in one sweeping narrative.

Автор: Darwin
Название: The Empire Project
ISBN: 0521317894 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521317894
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Цена: 32730.00 T
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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: Philip Bowring
Название: Empire of the Winds: The Global Role of Asia`s Great Archipelago
ISBN: 1350162345 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350162341
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Nusantaria - often referred to as 'Maritime Southeast Asia' - is the world's largest archipelago and has, for centuries, been a vital cultural and trading hub. Nusantara, a Sanskrit, then Malay, word referring to an island realm, is here adapted to become Nusantaria - denoting a slightly wider world but one with a single linguistic, cultural and trading base. Nusantaria encompasses the lands and shores created by the melting of the ice following the last Ice Age. These have long been primarily the domain of the Austronesian-speaking peoples and their seafaring traditions. The surrounding waters have always been uniquely important as a corridor connecting East Asia to India, the Middle East, Europe and Africa.

In this book, Philip Bowring provides a history of the world's largest and most important archipelago and its adjacent coasts. He tells the story of the peoples and lands located at this crucial maritime and cultural crossroads, from its birth following the last Ice Age to today.

Автор: Faroqhi, Saraiya
Название: The Ottoman empire
ISBN: 1558764496 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781558764491
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Описание: Presents the history of one of the powerful empires of the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern era. This text traces the political history of the Ottomans from the 14th century to the dissolution of the empires after WWI, and it employs a balanced approach that encompasses economic, social, and cultural history.

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: Karla Slocum
Название: Black Towns, Black Futures: The Enduring Allure of a Black Place in the American West
ISBN: 1469653974 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469653976
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Some know Oklahoma's Black towns as historic communities that thrived during the Jim Crow era—this is only part of the story. In this book, Karla Slocum shows that the appeal of these towns is more than their past. Drawing on interviews and observations of town life spanning several years, Slocum reveals that people from diverse backgrounds are still attracted to the communities because of the towns' remarkable history as well as their racial identity and rurality. But that attraction cuts both ways. Tourists visit to see living examples of Black success in America, while informal predatory lenders flock to exploit the rural Black economies. In Black towns, there are developers, return migrants, rodeo spectators and gentrifiers, too. Giving us a complex window into Black town and rural life, Slocum ultimately makes the case that these communities are places for affirming, building, and dreaming of Black community success even as they contend with the sometimes marginality of Black and rural America.

Автор: Karla Slocum
Название: Black Towns, Black Futures: The Enduring Allure of a Black Place in the American West
ISBN: 1469653966 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469653969
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Some know Oklahoma's Black towns as historic communities that thrived during the Jim Crow era—this is only part of the story. In this book, Karla Slocum shows that the appeal of these towns is more than their past. Drawing on interviews and observations of town life spanning several years, Slocum reveals that people from diverse backgrounds are still attracted to the communities because of the towns' remarkable history as well as their racial identity and rurality. But that attraction cuts both ways. Tourists visit to see living examples of Black success in America, while informal predatory lenders flock to exploit the rural Black economies. In Black towns, there are developers, return migrants, rodeo spectators and gentrifiers, too. Giving us a complex window into Black town and rural life, Slocum ultimately makes the case that these communities are places for affirming, building, and dreaming of Black community success even as they contend with the sometimes marginality of Black and rural America.

Автор: Harrison Rachel V., Jackson Peter A.
Название: The Ambiguous Allure of the West: Traces of the Colonial in Thailand
ISBN: 0877276072 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780877276074
Издательство: Cornell University Press
Цена: 44560.00 T
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Описание: The Ambiguous Allure of the West examines the impact of Western imperialism on Thai cultural development from the 1850s to the present.

Автор: Lowinger Rosa
Название: Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure American Seduction
ISBN: 0996869956 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780996869959
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An exploration of America's fascination with Cuba, featuring more than 150 rare photographs, movie posters and ephemera that promoted Cuba as a glamorous paradise

Midcentury America witnessed a frenzy for Cuba and Latin culture. Beaches, nightclubs and casinos lured tourists south to a tropical playground, while Hollywood celebrities and Cuban performers fueled a craze for rumba, mambo and Afro-Cuban jazz in the States. Stars such as Lucille Ball, Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Cab Calloway and Desi Arnaz flocked to Havana to let loose and enjoy the music of P rez Prado, Celia Cruz and Chico O'Farrill, alongside writers such as Ernest Hemingway and Guillermo Infante Cabrera.

With more than 150 illustrations--rare photographs, magazines, advertisement, movie stills and more--from the Vicki Gold Levi Collection at the Wolfsonian-Florida International University, Promising Paradise offers visions of the people and places that made Cuba so important in the American imagination.