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Download or read book A Savage Empire written by Alan Axelrod and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A surprising and sweeping history that reveals the fur trade to be the driving force behind conquest, colonization, and revolution in early America Combining the epic saga of Hampton Sides's Blood and Thunder with the natural history of Mark Kurlansky's Cod, popular historian Alan Axelrod reveals the astonishingly vital role a small animal—the beaver—played in the creation of our nation. The author masterfully relays a story often neglected by conventional histories: how lust for fur trade riches moved monarchs and men to launch expeditions of discovery, finance massive corporate enterprises, and wage war. Deftly weaving cultural and military narratives, the author chronicles how Spanish, Dutch, French, English, and Native American tribes created and betrayed alliances based on trapping and trade disputes, producing a surprisingly complex series of loyalties that endured throughout the Revolution and beyond.
Download or read book A Savage Empire written by Alan Axelrod and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... Reveals the astonishingly vital role a small animal-the beaver-played in the creation of our nation"--From publisher description.
Download or read book Savage Empire written by Timothy LEWINSON and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: APEX PREDATORS CLASH IN THE CITY OF ANGELS: A dark and terrifying vision of Los Angeles on the brink of Dinosaur Armageddon.In the year 2018, the Big One finally triggers in Southern California. The magnitude of the quake not only kills hundreds of thousands of people, but has actually caused a large portion of the SoCal area to fall and crumble into the Pacific. What little that remains is hanging on to the mainland by a thread, and a massive island has now appeared 30 miles south of San Clemente Islands, in disputed waters between Mexico and the United States.Ancient creatures now reclaim their territory, rampaging through the newborn island of Los Angeles and acting as harbingers of an even more malevolent force in the Pacific. Martial law is declared and the government immediately begins to lie to its citizens, stating that rescue efforts are underway but keeping a 20 mile buffer area clear between the jagged remnants of coastline and the rest of the country.Government military agencies have been experimenting with time travel and energy at two hidden facilities in Angeles National Forest and Topanga State Park, accidentally triggering the quake and worse, opening a series of rifts between our time and another.Dinosaurs - the original apex predators - are now flooding through these massive rifts as they open and close along the broken coastline. The Angeles National Forest team was wiped out completely, and the Topanga Team's last transmission was from Ground Zero of the quake. Now a crack team of commandos has been sent into the zone to back up an "off the books" asset named REEVES RIDENHOUR - someone unequaled at finding those who can't or don't want to be found. The leader of the wetworks unit, REYKA GRAY, has one job - ensure that Ridenhour performs his. What happens when conflicting desires collide with the need to dominate the natural order? Savage worlds lie exposed. Welcome to the Empire.
Book Synopsis Outcasts of Empire by : Paul D. Barclay
Download or read book Outcasts of Empire written by Paul D. Barclay and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : empires and indigenous peoples, global transformation and the limits of international society -- From wet diplomacy to scorched earth : the Taiwan expedition, the Guardline and the Wushe rebellion -- The long durée and the short circuit : gender, language and territory in the making of indigenous Taiwan -- Tangled up in red : textiles, trading posts and ethnic bifurcation in Taiwan -- The geobodies within a geobody : the visual economy of race-making and indigeneity
Book Synopsis Flight to the Savage Empire by : Jean Lorrah
Download or read book Flight to the Savage Empire written by Jean Lorrah and published by Roc. This book was released on 1986 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bloodlust! In the Aventine Empire, gladiator games still slake the multitudes' undying thirst for blood. Magister Astra hated the games -- with her telepathic powers, she felt the warriors' agonies as her own. But the Master had once again sent her there to tend the wounded: it was a punishment -- but for what? Even her strongest Reading couldn't tell her. Not until an unexpected death and an exotic, mind-bending drug brought her in the path of the ex-slave warrior Zanos did Astra begin to understand the web of deceit, greed, and vengeance that would send them both in a desperate Flight to the Savage Empire.
Book Synopsis Empire of the Summer Moon by : S. C. Gwynne
Download or read book Empire of the Summer Moon written by S. C. Gwynne and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award* *A New York Times Notable Book* *Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award* This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West “is nothing short of a revelation…will leave dust and blood on your jeans” (The New York Times Book Review). Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second entails one of the most remarkable narratives ever to come out of the Old West: the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son Quanah, who became the last and greatest chief of the Comanches. Although readers may be more familiar with the tribal names Apache and Sioux, it was in fact the legendary fighting ability of the Comanches that determined when the American West opened up. Comanche boys became adept bareback riders by age six; full Comanche braves were considered the best horsemen who ever rode. They were so masterful at war and so skillful with their arrows and lances that they stopped the northern drive of colonial Spain from Mexico and halted the French expansion westward from Louisiana. White settlers arriving in Texas from the eastern United States were surprised to find the frontier being rolled backward by Comanches incensed by the invasion of their tribal lands. The war with the Comanches lasted four decades, in effect holding up the development of the new American nation. Gwynne’s exhilarating account delivers a sweeping narrative that encompasses Spanish colonialism, the Civil War, the destruction of the buffalo herds, and the arrival of the railroads, and the amazing story of Cynthia Ann Parker and her son Quanah—a historical feast for anyone interested in how the United States came into being. Hailed by critics, S. C. Gwynne’s account of these events is meticulously researched, intellectually provocative, and, above all, thrillingly told. Empire of the Summer Moon announces him as a major new writer of American history.
Download or read book Conquer written by Michelle St. James and published by Blackthorn Press. This book was released on 2022-03-20 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ★★★★★ "5 Off The Chart Stars - So Good!" They call him the Lion. The son of a high-ranking bratva leader, Lyonya Antonov has been waiting nearly two decades to avenge his father’s imprisonment and take his rightful place at the top of the mafia food chain. He’s just missing one piece of the puzzle - and her name is Kira Baranov. Kira Baranov is a sheltered mafia princess with no power. It might be the 21st century in the rest of the world, but the Russian mafia will never accept a female leader. This despite the fact that the current boss, Kira’s father Viktor, has taught her everything he knows. Lyon knows Viktor is a king without an heir Kira knows she can’t keep the Baranovs in power without a partner of the male persuasion. The wolves are at the gates, vying for control in a world where one mistake can be deadly. But when their arranged marriage becomes sizzling desire, the line blurs dangerously between business and pleasure, and it may cost them their newfound love - and their lives. It's a Savage Empire - and it's not your mother’s mob. _____________________________________ ★★★★★ "Love it! Love it!! Love it!” ★★★★★ "The ending left me breathless..." ★★★★★ "Must, must read!" ★★★★★ "Omg! Hot, feisty and dramatic!" ★★★★★ "HOT! HOT! HOT!!" ★★★★★ "... thrilling and consuming..." ★★★★★ "An Intense and Riveting Story from the first page!!!"
Book Synopsis Tropics of Savagery by : Robert Thomas Tierney
Download or read book Tropics of Savagery written by Robert Thomas Tierney and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-05-20 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tropics of Savagery is an incisive and provocative study of the figures and tropes of "savagery" in Japanese colonial culture. Through a rigorous analysis of literary works, ethnographic studies, and a variety of other discourses, Robert Thomas Tierney demonstrates how imperial Japan constructed its own identity in relation both to the West and to the people it colonized. By examining the representations of Taiwanese aborigines and indigenous Micronesians in the works of prominent writers, he shows that the trope of the savage underwent several metamorphoses over the course of Japan's colonial period--violent headhunter to be subjugated, ethnographic other to be studied, happy primitive to be exoticized, and hybrid colonial subject to be assimilated.
Book Synopsis The Blood of Government by : Paul A. Kramer
Download or read book The Blood of Government written by Paul A. Kramer and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-07-17 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1899 the United States, having announced its arrival as a world power during the Spanish-Cuban-American War, inaugurated a brutal war of imperial conquest against the Philippine Republic. Over the next five decades, U.S. imperialists justified their colonial empire by crafting novel racial ideologies adapted to new realities of collaboration and anticolonial resistance. In this path breaking, transnational study, Paul A. Kramer reveals how racial politics served U.S. empire, and how empire-building in turn transformed ideas of race and nation in both the United States and the Philippines. Kramer argues that Philippine-American colonial history was characterized by struggles over sovereignty and recognition. In the wake of a racial-exterminist war, U.S. colonialists, in dialogue with Filipino elites, divided the Philippine population into ''civilized'' Christians and ''savage'' animists and Muslims. The former were subjected to a calibrated colonialism that gradually extended them self-government as they demonstrated their ''capacities.'' The latter were governed first by Americans, then by Christian Filipinos who had proven themselves worthy of shouldering the ''white man's burden.'' Ultimately, however, this racial vision of imperial nation-building collided with U.S. nativist efforts to insulate the United States from its colonies, even at the cost of Philippine independence. Kramer provides an innovative account of the global transformations of race and the centrality of empire to twentieth-century U.S. and Philippine histories.
Book Synopsis Ruling the Savage Periphery by : Benjamin D. Hopkins
Download or read book Ruling the Savage Periphery written by Benjamin D. Hopkins and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative case that “failed states” along the periphery of today’s international system are the intended result of nineteenth-century colonial design. From the Afghan frontier with British India to the pampas of Argentina to the deserts of Arizona, nineteenth-century empires drew borders with an eye toward placing indigenous people just on the edge of the interior. They were too nomadic and communal to incorporate in the state, yet their labor was too valuable to displace entirely. Benjamin Hopkins argues that empires sought to keep the “savage” just close enough to take advantage of, with lasting ramifications for the global nation-state order. Hopkins theorizes and explores frontier governmentality, a distinctive kind of administrative rule that spread from empire to empire. Colonial powers did not just create ad hoc methods or alight independently on similar techniques of domination: they learned from each other. Although the indigenous peoples inhabiting newly conquered and demarcated spaces were subjugated in a variety of ways, Ruling the Savage Periphery isolates continuities across regimes and locates the patterns of transmission that made frontier governmentality a world-spanning phenomenon. Today, the supposedly failed states along the margins of the international system—states riven by terrorism and violence—are not dysfunctional anomalies. Rather, they work as imperial statecraft intended, harboring the outsiders whom stable states simultaneously encapsulate and exploit. “Civilization” continues to deny responsibility for border dwellers while keeping them close enough to work, buy goods across state lines, and justify national-security agendas. The present global order is thus the tragic legacy of a colonial design, sustaining frontier governmentality and its objectives for a new age.
Download or read book Savage Empire written by Jean Lorrah and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1984 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestselling author reintroduces the first installment of her acclaimed fantasy series.
Download or read book Savage Legion written by Matt Wallace and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "They call them Savages. Brutal. Efficient. Expendable. The empire relies on them. The Savages are the greatest weapon they ever developed. Culled from the streets of their cities, they take the ones no one will miss and throw them, by the thousands, at the empire's enemies. If they live, they fight again. If they die, there are always more to take their place. Evie is not a Savage. She's a warrior with a mission: to find the man she once loved, the man who holds the key to exposing the secret of the Savage Legion and ending the mass conscription of the empire's poor and wretched. But to find him, she must become one of them, to be marked in her blood, to fight in their wars, and to find her purpose. Evie will die a Savage if she has to, but not before showing the world who she really is and what the Savage Legion can really do"--
Download or read book Life of a Savage written by Romell Tukes and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in separate walks of life, the chance of BIG TONE, a stick-up kid, and LISA, the proverbial good girl, meeting was small at best. But when they do meet, their unlikely union will take on a whirlwind, criminal romance that produces many casualties. Along the way, Lisa gives birth to a son whose criminal instincts will surpass anything his father ever imagined. With his pops blood flowing through his veins, SAVAGE becomes one of the most feared gangstas in Miami Florida. How will Savage handle himself in a grown man's world, battling envy, hate, and enemies? When Savage meets a plug, his life will change dramatically, but with more money comes more problems. And with the murder rate on the rise, and the Fed's in town, will Savage's empire fall? Or will he outwit the alphabet boys and their nationwide dragnet?
Download or read book War and Empire written by Paul L. Atwood and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative study, Paul Atwood attempts to show Americans that their history is one of constant wars of aggression and imperial expansion. In his long teaching career, Atwood has found that most students know virtually nothing about America's involvement in the wars of the 20th century, let alone those prior to World War I. War and Empire aims to correct this, clearly and persuasively explaining US actions in every major war since the declaration of independence. The book shows that, far from being dragged reluctantly into foreign entanglements, America's leaders have always picked their battles in order to increase its influence and power, with little regard for those killed in the process. This book is an eye-opening introduction to the American way of life for undergraduate students of American history, politics and international relations.
Book Synopsis Beautiful Carnage by : Caroline Peckham
Download or read book Beautiful Carnage written by Caroline Peckham and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dark, mafia standalone from Wall Street Journal #1 bestselling authors Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti His family killed my brother, so I stole his bride... I was there to murder her father, but then I saw her walking down the aisle. She's been my secret obsession for too long. The sinfully beautiful Calabresi princess. Sloan was the perfect payment for their crimes. Now she's mine. Mine to claim. Mine to possess. Mine to destroy. Her fiancé is still hunting for us, but his bride might not be so innocent by the time he tracks her down. I'm lining her family up like dominoes. And she'll be the first to fall. Unless I fall prey to temptation and decide to keep her for myself.
Book Synopsis Doc Savage: Mr. Calamity by : Kenneth Robeson
Download or read book Doc Savage: Mr. Calamity written by Kenneth Robeson and published by Altus Press. This book was released on 2017-12-31 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two new Doc Savage novels in one volume! Prospecting in the Wyoming badlands, Patricia Savage spies a man swimming in circles-high in a cloudless sky! After he falls to his death, the dead swimmer is discovered soaked to the skin. Who is he? How did he manage to swim through thin air? These are the questions Pat sets out to answer when her cousin, the famous scientist-adventurer Doc Savage, diagnoses her account as a hallucination caused by altitude sickness. But when the bronze-skinned girl vanishes, the Man of Bronze is forced to take action. From the Bighorn Mountains to Devils Tower, Doc Savage and his mighty crew race against time to avert an impending tragedy created by a nebulous devil in human form who calls himself Mr. Calamity. Plus, The Valley of Eternity. A letter from Doc Savage's long-dead father thrusts the Man of Bronze into a personal quest that will change his life. And only Pat Savage can guide him.
Download or read book Savage Empire written by Jean Lorrah and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aventine Empire is crumbling under the attacks of savages armed with strange and dangerous powers. Exiled from the empire, a powerful telepath named Leonardo is captured by the savages, and finds himself in unfamiliar territory. Prepared for their brutality and mindless aggression, Leonardo learns their world differs from what he has been taught, and he is forced to question all of his previously held assumptions. This edition includes the first three works of the seven-volume Savage Empire series, last issued more than 10 years ago.
