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Agents without Empire

Author : Antónia Szabari
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 1531506682
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Agents without Empire written by Antónia Szabari and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is well known that Renaissance culture gave an empowering role to the individual and thereby to agency. But how does race factor into this culture of empowerment? Canonical French authors like Rabelais and Montaigne have been celebrated for their flexible worldviews and interest in the difference of non-French cultures both inside and outside of Europe. As a result, this period in French cultural history has come to be valued as an exceptional era of cultural opening toward others. Agents without Empire shows that such a celebration is, at the very least, problematic. Szabari argues that before the rise of the French colonial empire, medieval categories of race based on the redemption story were recast through accounts of the Ottoman Empire that were made accessible, in a sudden and unprecedented manner, to agents of the French crown. Spying performed by Frenchmen in the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century permeated French culture in large part because those who spied also worked as knowledge producers, propagandists, and artists. The practice changed what it meant to be cultured and elite by creating new avenues of race- and gender-specific consumption for French and European men that affected all areas of sophisticated culture including literature, politics, prints, dressing, personal hygiene, and leisure. Agents without Empire explores race making in this period of European history in the context of diplomatic reposts, travel accounts, natural history, propaganda, religious literature, poetry, theater, fiction, and cheap print. It intervenes in conversations in whiteness studies, race theory, theories of agency and matter, and the history of diplomacy and spying to offer a new account of race making in early modern Europe.

Agents of Empire

Author : Noel Malcolm
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190262788
Total Pages : 651 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Agents of Empire written by Noel Malcolm and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in Great Britain by Penguin Random House UK"--Title page verso.

Agents of Empire

Author : Sean Gailmard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009316893
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Agents of Empire written by Sean Gailmard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how American political institutions evolved from strategic interaction of the English crown, colonial agents, and colonists.

Agent of Empire

Author : Brady Harrison
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820325446
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book Agent of Empire written by Brady Harrison and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of our ongoing interest in Walker, says Harrison, is the need to understand the ever-shifting ambitions and arguments that have driven American economic, military, and paramilitary ventures around the globe for the past 150 years.".

Star Wars: Agent of the Empire—Iron Eclipse

Author : John Ostrander
Publisher : Dark Horse
ISBN 13 : 9781595829504
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Star Wars: Agent of the Empire—Iron Eclipse written by John Ostrander and published by Dark Horse. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imperial power is at its height. With Palpatine on the throne and his chief enforcer, Darth Vader, leading fleets of Star Destroyers and legions of stormtroopers across the galaxy, the Empire is an unstoppable force for order and peace. But not every political problem requires military might; not every negotiation depends on a show of force. Sometimes all diplomacy needs to succeed is the right man, in the right place, with the willingness to get the job done. No matter what it takes. Collects Star Wars: Agent of the Empire—Iron Eclipse #1–#5.

Archaeologies of Empire

Author : Anna L. Boozer
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826361765
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Archaeologies of Empire written by Anna L. Boozer and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, a large portion of the world’s population has lived under imperial rule. Although scholars do not always agree on when and where the roots of imperialism lie, most would agree that imperial configurations have affected human history so profoundly that the legacy of ancient empires continues to structure the modern world in many ways. Empires are best described as heterogeneous and dynamic patchworks of imperial configurations in which imperial power was the outcome of the complex interaction between evolving colonial structures and various types of agents in highly contingent relationships. The goal of this volume is to harness the work of the “next generation” of empire scholars in order to foster new theoretical and methodological perspectives that are of relevance within and beyond archaeology and to foreground empires as a cross-cultural category. This book demonstrates how archaeological research can contribute to our conceptualization of empires across disciplinary boundaries.

Capitulations of the Ottoman Empire

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Capitulations of the Ottoman Empire written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Agents of Empire

Author : Michael J. Levin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150172763X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Agents of Empire written by Michael J. Levin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have long held that during the decades from the end of the Habsburg-Valois Wars in 1559 until the outbreak in 1618 of the Thirty Years' War, Spanish domination of Italy was so complete that one can refer to the period as a "pax hispanica." In this book, based on extensive research in the papers of the ambassadors who represented Charles V and Philip II, Michael J. Levin instead reveals the true fragility of Spanish control and the ambiguous nature of its impact on Italian political and cultural life.While exploring the nature and weaknesses of Spanish imperialism in the sixteenth century, Levin focuses on the activities of Spain's emissaries in Rome and Venice, drawing us into a world of intrigue and occasional violence as the Spaniards attempted to manipulate the crosscurrents of Italian and papal politics to serve their own ends. Levin's often-colorful account uncovers the vibrant world of late Renaissance diplomacy in which popes were forced to flee down secret staircases and ambassadors too often only narrowly avoided assassination. An important contribution to our understanding of the nature and limits of the Spanish imperial system, Agents of Empire more broadly highlights the centrality of diplomatic history to any consideration of the politics of empire.

Agent of Byzantium

Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504009444
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Agent of Byzantium written by Harry Turtledove and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times–bestselling “standard-bearer for alternate history”: A spy takes on the enemies of the Byzantine Empire (USA Today). In another, very different timeline—one in which Mohammed embraced Christianity and Islam never came to be—the Byzantine Empire still flourishes in the fourteenth century, and wondrous technologies are emerging earlier than they did in our own. Having lost his family to the ravages of smallpox, Basil Argyros has decided to dedicate his life to Byzantium. A stalwart soldier and able secret agent, Basil serves his emperor courageously, going undercover to unearth Persia’s dastardly plots and disrupting the dark machinations of his beautiful archenemy, the Persian spy Mirrane, while defusing dire threats emerging from the Western realm of the Franco-Saxons. But the world Basil so staunchly defends is changing rapidly, and he must remain ever vigilant, for in this great game of empires, the player who controls the most advanced tools and weaponry—tools like gunpowder, printing, vaccines, and telescopes—must certainly emerge victorious. A collection of interlocking stories that showcase the courage, ingenuity, and breathtaking derring-do of superspy Basil Argyros, Agent of Byzantium presents the great Harry Turtledove at his alternate-world-building best. At once intricate, exciting, witty, and wildly inventive, this is a many-faceted gem from a master of the genre.

Constituting Empire

Author : Daniel J. Hulsebosch
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807876879
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (768 download)

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Download or read book Constituting Empire written by Daniel J. Hulsebosch and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2006-05-18 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the traditional understanding of American constitutional law, the Revolution produced a new conception of the constitution as a set of restrictions on the power of the state rather than a mere description of governmental roles. Daniel J. Hulsebosch complicates this viewpoint by arguing that American ideas of constitutions were based on British ones and that, in New York, those ideas evolved over the long eighteenth century as New York moved from the periphery of the British Atlantic empire to the center of a new continental empire. Hulsebosch explains how colonists and administrators reconfigured British legal sources to suit their needs in an expanding empire. In this story, familiar characters such as Alexander Hamilton and James Kent appear in a new light as among the nation's most important framers, and forgotten loyalists such as Superintendent of Indian Affairs Sir William Johnson and lawyer William Smith Jr. are rightly returned to places of prominence. In his paradigm-shifting analysis, Hulsebosch captures the essential paradox at the heart of American constitutional history: the Revolution, which brought political independence and substituted the people for the British crown as the source of legitimate authority, also led to the establishment of a newly powerful constitution and a new postcolonial genre of constitutional law that would have been the envy of the British imperial agents who had struggled to govern the colonies before the Revolution.

Protection and Empire

Author : Lauren Benton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108417868
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Protection and Empire written by Lauren Benton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book situates protection at the centre of the global history of empires, thus advancing a new perspective on world history.

Revisiting the European Union as Empire

Author : Hartmut Behr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317595106
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Revisiting the European Union as Empire written by Hartmut Behr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Union’s stalled expansion, the Euro deficit and emerging crises of economic and political sovereignty in Greece, Italy and Spain have significantly altered the image of the EU as a model of progressive civilization. However, despite recent events the EU maintains its international image as the paragon of European politics and global governance. This book unites leading scholars on Europe and Empire to revisit the view of the European Union as an ‘imperial’ power. It offers a re-appraisal of the EU as empire in response to geopolitical and economic developments since 2007 and asks if the policies, practices, and priorities of the Union exhibit characteristics of a modern empire. This text will be of key interest to students and scholars of the EU, European studies, history, sociology, international relations, and economics.

Jeopardy in the Empire!

Author : John R. Carden
Publisher : PublishAmerica
ISBN 13 : 1627096590
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Jeopardy in the Empire! written by John R. Carden and published by PublishAmerica. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in Jeopardy in the Empire are taken from the Official Annals of the Imperial Seers.

The Bankers', Insurance Managers', and Agents' Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 938 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Bankers', Insurance Managers', and Agents' Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of the Consulate and the Empire of France Under Napoleon

Author : Adolphe Thiers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book History of the Consulate and the Empire of France Under Napoleon written by Adolphe Thiers and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of the consulate and the empire forming a sequel to "The history of the French revolution"

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Author : Adolphe Thiers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the consulate and the empire forming a sequel to "The history of the French revolution" written by Adolphe Thiers and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Town in the Empire

Author : Peter Marzahl
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 029278029X
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Town in the Empire written by Peter Marzahl and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1979-04-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the seventeenth century, many of the fundamental characteristics of Spanish America were established. Peter Marzahl adds significantly to our understanding of this period with this study of Popayán, a town in what was then part of New Granada and is now Colombia. New Granada was something of a backwater of the empire, but very likely Popayán was more typical of everyday colonial life than the major centers that have drawn most attention from historians. In the first part of his study, Marzahl describes both town and region, depicts economic activities (agriculture, gold mining, trade), and analyzes urban and rural society. Of particular interest is his discussion of the complex interaction among the different ethnic groups: Spaniards, Mestizos, Indians, and Blacks. In the longer second part he presents a detailed account of the makeup and operations of the town councils. His extensive research in primary sources makes possible a thorough examination of Popayán's administration and politics and their relationship to economic and social patterns. He also describes the councils' relations with the provincial governors, the viceregal authorities in Bogotá, and the Church. Because this study treats a neglected period and region and, in so doing, offers fresh materials and insights, it is an important contribution to our knowledge and comprehension of colonial Spanish America.