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Empire Close

Author : M.J. Boyle
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1035839318
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Empire Close written by M.J. Boyle and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empire Close unfolds in a quaint cul-de-sac of six 1950s detached houses in a mid-sized English commuter town, where Ted has always felt part of a close-knit community. As 1997 dawns, Ted, now retired and wheelchair-bound, reflects on the past 45 years in Empire Close. He fondly remembers a time when a strong British identity was the hallmark of the neighbourhood, a trait he held dear. However, he’s witnessed a gradual transformation that leaves him feeling isolated and nostalgic. With the death of the last original neighbour, Ted grapples with the reality that he may be the last ‘true’ Brit left. His internal struggle is profound, as he wrestles with his beliefs and identity, yet never fully confronting their deeper implications. An unexpected turn of events dramatically upsets Ted’s world, challenging him to confront both his past and his future. This journey of self-discovery brings Ted to a pivotal crossroads, where he must reconcile his past actions with their unforeseen impact on his life. The story navigates the complexities of identity, community, and change, leaving readers to ponder André Malraux’s notion: ‘When man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.’ As the narrative unfolds, Ted’s journey towards understanding his destiny and himself takes intriguing turns, leading to a thought-provoking conclusion.

Close Encounters of Empire

Author : Gilbert Michael Joseph
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822320999
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Close Encounters of Empire written by Gilbert Michael Joseph and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays that suggest new ways of understanding the role that US actors and agencies have played in Latin America." - publisher.

America after Empire

Author : Berch Berberoglu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000594424
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book America after Empire written by Berch Berberoglu and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-09 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the end of America’s longest (20-year) war in Afghanistan and Iraq that cost more than $6 trillion and nearly half a million lives, what does the future hold for America and the American people in the 21st century? In this timely and important book, Berch Berberoglu provides an eye-opening account of the history of the American Empire from its inception to the present, with prospects for its future. Examining the worldwide expansion of the American Empire over the course of its turbulent history in great detail, Berberoglu assesses America’s imperial legacy in a sober way, highlighting its failure to come to terms with the enormous cost of this adventure in imperial overreach. But Berberoglu sees light at the end of the long, dark tunnel, when the American people will awaken and lead the way to a new America after empire in the coming decades of the 21st century.

Bulletin

Author : California. Division of Mines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bulletin written by California. Division of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Empire of Wild

Author : Cherie Dimaline
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 006297596X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Empire of Wild written by Cherie Dimaline and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Deftly written, gripping and informative. Empire of Wild is a rip-roaring read!”—Margaret Atwood, From Instagram “Empire of Wild is doing everything I love in a contemporary novel and more. It is tough, funny, beautiful, honest and propulsive—all the while telling a story that needs to be told by a person who needs to be telling it.”—Tommy Orange, author of There There A bold and brilliant new indigenous voice in contemporary literature makes her American debut with this kinetic, imaginative, and sensuous fable inspired by the traditional Canadian Métis legend of the Rogarou—a werewolf-like creature that haunts the roads and woods of native people’s communities. Joan has been searching for her missing husband, Victor, for nearly a year—ever since that terrible night they’d had their first serious argument hours before he mysteriously vanished. Her Métis family has lived in their tightly knit rural community for generations, but no one keeps the old ways . . . until they have to. That moment has arrived for Joan. One morning, grieving and severely hungover, Joan hears a shocking sound coming from inside a revival tent in a gritty Walmart parking lot. It is the unmistakable voice of Victor. Drawn inside, she sees him. He has the same face, the same eyes, the same hands, though his hair is much shorter and he's wearing a suit. But he doesn't seem to recognize Joan at all. He insists his name is Eugene Wolff, and that he is a reverend whose mission is to spread the word of Jesus and grow His flock. Yet Joan suspects there is something dark and terrifying within this charismatic preacher who professes to be a man of God . . . something old and very dangerous. Joan turns to Ajean, an elderly foul-mouthed card shark who is one of the few among her community steeped in the traditions of her people and knowledgeable about their ancient enemies. With the help of the old Métis and her peculiar Johnny-Cash-loving, twelve-year-old nephew Zeus, Joan must find a way to uncover the truth and remind Reverend Wolff who he really is . . . if he really is. Her life, and those of everyone she loves, depends upon it.

Saint Louis the Future Great City of the World

Author : L. U. Reavis
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 336818864X
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book Saint Louis the Future Great City of the World written by L. U. Reavis and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-18 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Global Villages

Author : Ger Duijzings
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 0857280848
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book Global Villages written by Ger Duijzings and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the multiple effects of globalization on urban and rural communities, providing anthropological case studies from postsocialist Bulgaria. As globalization has been studied largely in urban contexts, the aim of this volume is to shift attention to the under-examined countryside and analyse how transnational links are transforming relations between cities, towns and villages. The volume also challenges undifferentiated notions of ‘the countryside’, calling for an awareness of rural economic and social disparities which are often only associated with urban environments. The work focuses on how the ‘urban’ and ‘rural’ have been reconfigured following the end of socialism and the advent of globalization, in socioeconomic, as well as political, ideological and cultural terms.

Making Men: Rugby and Masculine Identity

Author : Timothy J.L. Chandler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136303642
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Making Men: Rugby and Masculine Identity written by Timothy J.L. Chandler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text looks at how an understanding of rugby can provide insight into what it has meant to "be a man" in societies influenced by the ideals of Victorian upper and middle classes. It shows that rugby has been a means of promoting male exclusivity, but also been a means of cultural incorporation.

Independence and Nation-Building in Latin America

Author : Scott Eastman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000607704
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Independence and Nation-Building in Latin America written by Scott Eastman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Independence and Nation-Building in Latin America: Race and Identity in the Crucible of War reconceptualizes the history of the break-up of colonial empires in Spanish and Portuguese America. In doing so, the authors critically examine competing interpretations and bring to light the most recent scholarship on social, cultural, and political aspects of the period. Did American rebels clearly push for independence, or did others truly advocate autonomy within weakened monarchical systems? Rather than glorify rebellions and "patriots," the authors begin by emphasizing patterns of popular loyalism in the midst of a fracturing Spanish state. In contrast, a slave-based economy and a relocated imperial court provided for relative stability in Portuguese Brazil. Chapters pay attention to the competing claims of a variety of social and political figures at the time across the variegated regions of Central and South America and the Caribbean. Furthermore, while elections and the rise of a new political culture are explored in some depth, questions are raised over whether or not a new liberal consensus had taken hold. Through translated primary sources and cogent analysis, the text provides an update to conventional accounts that focus on politics, the military, and an older paradigm of Creole-peninsular friction and division. Previously marginalized actors, from Indigenous peoples to free people of color, often take center-stage. This concise and accessible text will appeal to scholars, students, and all those interested in Latin American History and Revolutionary History.

Who Were the First Christians?

Author : Thomas A. Robinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190620552
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Who Were the First Christians? written by Thomas A. Robinson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been widely assumed that there were 6 million Christians (or 10% of the population of the Roman Empire) by around the year 300. The largely-unexamined consensus view is also that Christianity was an urban movement until the conversion of Emperor Constantine. On close examination, it appears that these two popular views would nearly saturate every urban area of the entire Roman Empire with Christians, leaving no room for Jews or pagans. In Who Were the First Christians?, Thomas Robinson shows that scenario simply does not work. But where does the solution lie? Were there many fewer Christians in the Roman world than we have thought? Was the Roman world much more urbanized? Or, is the urban thesis defective, so that the neglected countryside must now be considered in any reconstruction of early Christian growth? Further, what was the makeup of the typical Christian congregation? Was it a lower-class movement? Or was it a movement of the upwardly mobile middle-class? Arguing that more attention needs to be given to the countryside and to the considerable contingent of the marginal and the rustic within urban populations, this revisionist work argues persuasively that the urban thesis should be dismantled or profoundly revised and the growth and the complexion of the early Christian movement seen in a substantially different light.

Colonial Office List ...

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Colonial Office List ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Empire's Mobius Strip

Author : Stephanie Malia Hom
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501739921
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Empire's Mobius Strip written by Stephanie Malia Hom and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its brilliant prose makes [Empire's Mobius Strip] easily accessible to anyone interested in today's migration crisis in the Mediterranean and elsewhere in the world.― American Historical Review Italy's current crisis of Mediterranean migration and detention has its roots in early twentieth century imperial ambitions. Empire's Mobius Strip investigates how mobile populations were perceived to be major threats to Italian colonization, and how the state's historical mechanisms of control have resurfaced, with greater force, in today's refugee crisis. What is at stake in Empire's Mobius Strip is a deeper understanding of the forces driving those who move by choice and those who are moved. Stephanie Malia Hom focuses on Libya, considered Italy's most valuable colony, both politically and economically. Often perceived as the least of the great powers, Italian imperialism has been framed as something of "colonialism lite." But Italian colonizers carried out genocide between 1929–33, targeting nomadic Bedouin and marching almost 100,000 of them across the desert, incarcerating them in camps where more than half who entered died, simply because the Italians considered their way of life suspect. There are uncanny echoes with the situation of the Roma and migrants today. Hom explores three sites, in novella-like essays, where Italy's colonial past touches down in the present: the island, the camp, and the village. Empire's Mobius Strip brings into relief Italy's shifting constellations of mobility and empire, giving them space to surface, submerge, stretch out across time, and fold back on themselves like a Mobius strip. It deftly shows that mobility forges lasting connections between colonial imperialism and neoliberal empire, establishing Italy as a key site for the study of imperial formations in Europe and the Mediterranean.

The Five Empires

Author : Robert Isaac Wilberforce
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 172523842X
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book The Five Empires written by Robert Isaac Wilberforce and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition was originally reprinted in 1899 with a few notes concerning Assyrian history.

The World of Tacitus' Dialogus de Oratoribus

Author : Christopher S. van den Berg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107020905
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The World of Tacitus' Dialogus de Oratoribus written by Christopher S. van den Berg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-evaluates Tacitus' dialogue about the limits and possibilities of public speech in the Roman Principate.

Shadow of the Knight

Author : Matt Heppe
Publisher : Matt Heppe
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadow of the Knight written by Matt Heppe and published by Matt Heppe. This book was released on 2015-12-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enna, daughter of Prince Morin and Hadde of Landomere, is forced to emerge from hiding when powerful undead ravage her home. Orlos, the young spiridus, is tormented by dreams of the massacre of his race. His discovery of a mysterious tomb pulls him into a plot to overthrow a queen. Telea, a Belenese healer, brings tidings of great danger to Salador. The fate of the world balances on her words.

Great Powers and Geopolitical Change

Author : Jakub J. Grygiel
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801889618
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Great Powers and Geopolitical Change written by Jakub J. Grygiel and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named by Foreign Affairs as a book to read on geopolitics. In an era of high technology and instant communication, the role of geography in the formation of strategy and politics in international relations can be undervalued. But the mountains of Afghanistan and the scorching sand storms of Iraq have provided stark reminders that geographical realities continue to have a profound impact on the success of military campaigns. Here, political scientist Jakub J. Grygiel brings to light the importance of incorporating geography into grand strategy. He argues that states can increase and maintain their position of power by pursuing a geostrategy that focuses on control of resources and lines of communication. Grygiel examines case studies of Venice, the Ottoman Empire, and China in the global fifteenth century—all great powers that faced a dramatic change in geopolitics when new routes and continents were discovered. The location of resources, the layout of trade networks, and the stability of state boundaries played a large role in the success or failure of these three powers. Grygiel asserts that, though many other aspects of foreign policy have changed throughout history, strategic response to geographical features remains one of the most salient factors in establishing and maintaining power in the international arena.

History+ for Edexcel A Level: Religion and the state in early modern Europe

Author : Robin Bunce
Publisher : Hodder Education
ISBN 13 : 1471837475
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (718 download)

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Download or read book History+ for Edexcel A Level: Religion and the state in early modern Europe written by Robin Bunce and published by Hodder Education. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exam Board: Edexcel Level: AS/A-level Subject: History First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2016 Endorsed for Edexcel Enable your students to develop high-level skills in their Edexcel A level History breadth and depth studies through expert narrative and extended reading, including bespoke essays from leading academics - Build a strong understanding of the period studied with authoritative, well-researched content written in an accessible and engaging style - Ensure continual improvement in students' essay writing, interpretation and source analysis skills, using practice questions and trusted guidance on successfully answering exam-style questions - Encourage students to undertake rolling revision and self-assessment by referring to end-of-chapter summaries and diagrams across the years - Help students monitor their progress and consolidate their knowledge through note-making activities and peer-support tasks - Provide students with the opportunity to analyse and evaluate works of real history, with specially commissioned historians' essays and extracts from academic works on the historical interpretations This title has complete coverage of the following units in Edexcel's specification: - England, 1509-1603: authority, nation and religion - Luther and the German Reformation, c1515-55 - The Dutch Revolt, c1563-1609