Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Download Bad Colonists full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Bad Colonists ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author : Vernon Lee Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bad Colonists written by Vernon Lee Walker and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the particularities of colonial life in the South Pacific through the correspondence of two colonialists.
Author : Gregor Muller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134253729
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Colonial Cambodia's 'Bad Frenchmen' written by Gregor Muller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-07 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial Cambodia's "Bad Frenchmen" provides a captivating analysis of the gradual establishment of French colonialism in the late nineteenth century. Drawing on new materials from French, Vietnamese and Cambodian archives, it reconstructs a time during which France struggled to give meaning and substance to its Protectorate over Cambodia. It traces the lives of failed colonists – most notably Thomas Caramen, who all constituted a challenge to the colonial enterprise by muddling its social, cultural and racial boundaries. In its consideration of the critical role played by these colonists, this compelling book shifts away from governor-generals, grand discourses and the simple view of colonialism as ‘colonizers’ versus ‘colonized’, to explore how things actually worked themselves out on the ground. It examines in particular the 'civilizing mission' and educational initiatives; the slow destruction of the indigenous justice system; the policing of sexual relations between colonisers and colonized; the theft of Cambodian land and taxes by the colonizing power; and the brutal repression of resistance wherever and whenever it appeared. Overall, Muller reveals the crucial role played by indigenous middlemen and marginal Europeans in the rise of the colonial state, and tells the fascinating tale of a Frenchman who came to represent everything that the colonial state dreaded.
Author : Andrew Roberts
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984879286
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)
Download or read book The Last King of America written by Andrew Roberts and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last king of America, George III, has been ridiculed as a complete disaster who frittered away the colonies and went mad in his old age. The truth is much more nuanced and fascinating--and will completely change the way readers and historians view his reign and legacy. Most Americans dismiss George III as a buffoon--a heartless and terrible monarch with few, if any, redeeming qualities. The best-known modern interpretation of him is Jonathan Groff's preening, spitting, and pompous take in Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway masterpiece. But this deeply unflattering characterization is rooted in the prejudiced and brilliantly persuasive opinions of eighteenth-century revolutionaries like Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson, who needed to make the king appear evil in order to achieve their own political aims. After combing through hundreds of thousands of pages of never-before-published correspondence, award-winning historian Andrew Roberts has uncovered the truth: George III was in fact a wise, humane, and even enlightened monarch who was beset by talented enemies, debilitating mental illness, incompetent ministers, and disastrous luck. In The Last King of America, Roberts paints a deft and nuanced portrait of the much-maligned monarch and outlines his accomplishments, which have been almost universally forgotten. Two hundred and forty-five years after the end of George III's American rule, it is time for Americans to look back on their last king with greater understanding: to see him as he was and to come to terms with the last time they were ruled by a monarch.
Author : William Cronon
Publisher : Hill and Wang
ISBN 13 : 142992828X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Changes in the Land written by William Cronon and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize In this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an updated afterword by the author and a new preface by the distinguished colonialist John Demos, Changes in the Land, provides a brilliant inter-disciplinary interpretation of how land and people influence one another. With its chilling closing line, "The people of plenty were a people of waste," Cronon's enduring and thought-provoking book is ethno-ecological history at its best.
Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Common Sense written by Thomas Paine and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Scott Dawson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439669945
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book The Lost Colony and Hatteras Island written by Scott Dawson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New archeological discoveries may finally solve the greatest mystery of Colonial America in this history of Roanoke and Hatteras Islands. Established on what is now North Carolina’s Roanoke Island, the Roanoke Colony was intended to be England’s first permanent settlement in North America. But in 1590, the entire population disappeared without a trace. The only clue to their fate was the word “Croatoan” carved into a tree. For centuries, the legend of the Lost Colony has captivated imaginations. Now, archaeologists from the University of Bristol, working with the Croatoan Archaeological Society, have uncovered tantalizing clues to the fate of the colony. In The Lost Colony and Hatteras Island, Hatteras native and amateur archaeologist Scott Dawson compiles what scholars know about the Lost Colony along with what scholars have found beneath the soil of Hatteras.
Author : Crawford Young
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300068795
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (687 download)
Download or read book The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective written by Crawford Young and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive and original study, a distinguished specialist and scholar of African affairs argues that the current crisis in African development can be traced directly to European colonial rule, which left the continent with a "singularly difficult legacy" that is unique in modern history. Crawford Young proposes a new conception of the state, weighing the different characteristics of earlier European empires (including those of Holland, Portugal, England, and Venice) and distilling their common qualities. He then presents a concise and wide-ranging history of colonization in Africa, from the era of construction through consolidation and decolonization. Young argues that several qualities combined to make the European colonial experience in Africa distinctive. The high number of nations competing for power around the continent and the necessity to achieve effective occupation swiftly yet make the colonies self-financing drove colonial powers toward policies of "ruthless extractive action." The persistent, virulent racism that established a distance between rulers and subjects was especially central to African colonial history. Young concludes by turning his sights to other regions of the once-colonized world, comparing the fates of former African colonies to their counterparts elsewhere. In tracing both the overarching traits and variations in African colonial states, he makes a strong case that colonialism has played a critical role in shaping the fate of this troubled continent.
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Tinsley's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Proceedings written by Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Empire Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Hackett Fischer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019974369X
Total Pages : 981 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Albion's Seed written by David Hackett Fischer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991-03-14 with total page 981 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.
Author : William Harbutt Dawson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Modern Germany written by William Harbutt Dawson and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacqueline Morley
Publisher : Franklin Watts
ISBN 13 : 9780531259467
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (594 download)
Download or read book You Wouldn't Want to be an American Colonist! written by Jacqueline Morley and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This best-selling series engages readers of all levels by making them part of the story. Readers will become the main character and can revel in the gory and dark sides of life throughout important moments in history. Key Features:Perfect resource for reluctant readers with: humor and history tied to curriculum entertaining sidebars to pique reader's curiosity comprehensive glossary to support content index to make navigating subject matter easier
Author : Wendy Warren
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1631492152
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)
Download or read book New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America written by Wendy Warren and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History A New York Times Notable Book A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection A Providence Journal Best Book of the Year Winner of the Organization of American Historians Merle Curti Award for Social History Finalist for the Harriet Tubman Prize Finalist for the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize "This book is an original achievement, the kind of history that chastens our historical memory as it makes us wiser." —David W. Blight, author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Widely hailed as a “powerfully written” history about America’s beginnings (Annette Gordon-Reed), New England Bound fundamentally changes the story of America’s seventeenth-century origins. Building on the works of giants like Bernard Bailyn and Edmund S. Morgan, Wendy Warren has not only “mastered that scholarship” but has now rendered it in “an original way, and deepened the story” (New York Times Book Review). While earlier histories of slavery largely confine themselves to the South, Warren’s “panoptical exploration” (Christian Science Monitor) links the growth of the northern colonies to the slave trade and examines the complicity of New England’s leading families, demonstrating how the region’s economy derived its vitality from the slave trading ships coursing through its ports. And even while New England Bound explains the way in which the Atlantic slave trade drove the colonization of New England, it also brings to light, in many cases for the first time ever, the lives of the thousands of reluctant Indian and African slaves who found themselves forced into the project of building that city on a hill. We encounter enslaved Africans working side jobs as con artists, enslaved Indians who protested their banishment to sugar islands, enslaved Africans who set fire to their owners’ homes and goods, and enslaved Africans who saved their owners’ lives. In Warren’s meticulous, compelling, and hard-won recovery of such forgotten lives, the true variety of chattel slavery in the Americas comes to light, and New England Bound becomes the new standard for understanding colonial America.
Author : Royal Commonwealth Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute written by Royal Commonwealth Society and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mr James S Duncan
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409487547
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)
Download or read book In the Shadows of the Tropics written by Mr James S Duncan and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original work James Duncan explores the transformation of Ceylon during the mid-nineteenth century into one of the most important coffee growing regions of the world and investigates the consequent ecological disaster which erased coffee from the island. Using this fascinating case study by way of illustration, In the Shadows of the Tropics reveals the spatial unevenness and fragmentation of modernity through a focus on modern governmentality and biopower. It argues that the practices of colonial power, and the differences that race and tropical climates were thought to make, were central to the working out of modern governmental rationalities. In this context, the usefulness of Foucault's notions of biopower, discipline and governmentality are examined. The work contributes an important rural focus to current work on studies of governmentality in geography and offers a welcome non-state dimension by considering the role of the plantation economy and individual capitalists in the lives and deaths of labourers, the destabilization of subsistence farming and the aggressive re-territorialization of populations from India to Ceylon.
