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Empire Settings

Author : David Schmahmann
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 0897336054
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (973 download)

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Download or read book Empire Settings written by David Schmahmann and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danny Divin is a young white man in South Africa who enters into an illicit romance with a mixed race schoolgirl, the daughter of a black domestic servant. When social constraints force Danny to end the romance, he travels to America with the hOut of Printes of starting a new life. There he meets Tesseba, a curious and trusting artist who takes him in and marries him to save him from deportation. The two build a life together, but Danny continues to be plagued by a growing sense of loss. Twenty years later, Danny returns to a "new" South Africa in the hOut of Printes of saving a family fortune and finding the girl he has never forgotten.

Empire and International Order

Author : Noel Parker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317144406
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Empire and International Order written by Noel Parker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empires have returned as features of the international scene. With the Cold War's global ideological contest gone, alternative structures such as the War on Terror or the Clash of Civilizations losing credibility, and even the unipolar position of the USA no longer self-evident, the operations of competing empires, history's best known form of order imposed over territories and peoples, acquires renewed credibility. Empire and International Order presents a critical examination of how useful the concept of empire is for understanding varieties of international order across time and place. Original contributions from an international team of upcoming and distinguished scholars analyse a wealth of theoretical approaches alongside contemporary themes enabling the reader to understand the desire to shift the ground of analysis away from the current literature of immediate issue of the US towards the disciplines of international relations, politics, and political/sociological theory.

Empire of Diamonds

Author : Adrienne Munich
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813944015
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Empire of Diamonds written by Adrienne Munich and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1850, the legendary Koh-i-noor diamond, gem of Eastern potentates, was transferred from the Punjab in India and, in an elaborate ceremony, placed into Queen Victoria’s outstretched hands. This act inaugurated what author Adrienne Munich recognizes in her engaging new book as the empire of diamonds. Diamonds were a symbol of political power—only for the very rich and influential. But, in a development that also reflected the British Empire’s prosperity, the idea of owning a diamond came to be marketed to the middle class. In all kinds of writings, diamonds began to take on an affordable romance. Considering many of the era’s most iconic voices—from Dickens and Tennyson to Kipling and Stevenson—as well as grand entertainments such as The Moonstone, King Solomon’s Mines, and the tales of Sherlock Holmes, Munich explores diamonds as fetishes that seem to contain a living spirit exerting powerful effects, and shows how they scintillated the literary and cultural imagination. Based on close textual attention and rare archival material, and drawing on ideas from material culture, fashion theory, economic criticism, and fetishism, Empire of Diamonds interprets the various meanings of diamonds, revealing a trajectory including Indian celebrity-named diamonds reserved for Asian princes, such as the Great Mogul and the Hope Diamond, their adoption by British royal and aristocratic families, and their discovery in South Africa, the mining of which devastated the area even as it opened the gem up to the middle classes. The story Munich tells eventually finds its way to America, as power and influence cross the Atlantic, bringing diamonds to a wide consumer culture.

Mapping Men and Empire

Author : Richard Phillips
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135636567
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Mapping Men and Empire written by Richard Phillips and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1996. Adventure stories, produced and consumed in vast quantities in eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe, narrate encounters between Europeans and the non-European world. They map both European and non-European people and places. In the exotic, uncomplicated and malleable settings of stories like Robinson Crusoe, they make it possible to imagine, and to naturalise and normalise, identities that might seem implausible closer to home. This book discusses the geography of literature and looking at where adventure stories chart colonies and empires, projecting European geographical fantasies onto non-European, real geographies, including the Americas, Africa and Australasia.

Empire, Education, and Indigenous Childhoods

Author : Helen May
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317144341
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Empire, Education, and Indigenous Childhoods written by Helen May and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking up a little-known story of education, schooling, and missionary endeavor, Helen May, Baljit Kaur, and Larry Prochner focus on the experiences of very young ’native’ children in three British colonies. In missionary settlements across the northern part of the North Island of New Zealand, Upper Canada, and British-controlled India, experimental British ventures for placing young children of the poor in infant schools were simultaneously transported to and adopted for all three colonies. From the 1820s to the 1850s, this transplantation of Britain’s infant schools to its distant colonies was deemed a radical and enlightened tool that was meant to hasten the conversion of 'heathen' peoples by missionaries to Christianity and to European modes of civilization. The intertwined legacies of European exploration, enlightenment ideals, education, and empire building, the authors argue, provided a springboard for British colonial and missionary activity across the globe during the nineteenth century. Informed by archival research and focused on the shared as well as unique aspects of the infant schools’ colonial experience, Empire, Education, and Indigenous Childhoods illuminates both the pervasiveness of missionary education and the diverse contexts in which its attendant ideals were applied.

Summary of Proceedings

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Summary of Proceedings written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Legacies of Empire

Author : Sandra Halperin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107109469
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Legacies of Empire written by Sandra Halperin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-26 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals how the structures and practices of past empires interact with and shape contemporary 'national' ones.

Empires of Vice

Author : Diana S. Kim
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691172404
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Empires of Vice written by Diana S. Kim and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Shared Turn : Opium and the Rise of Prohibition -- The Different Lives of Southeast Asia's Opium Monopolies -- "Morally Wrecked" in British Burma, 1870s-1890s -- Fiscal Dependency in British Malaya, 1890s-1920s -- Disastrous Abundance in French Indochina, 1920s-1940s -- Colonial Legacies.

Designs on Empire

Author : Andrew Priest
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231552173
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Designs on Empire written by Andrew Priest and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the eyes of both contemporaries and historians, the United States became an empire in 1898. By taking possession of Cuba and the Philippines, the nation seemed to have reached a watershed moment in its rise to power—spurring arguments over whether it should be a colonial power at all. However, the questions that emerged in the wake of 1898 built on long-standing and far-reaching debates over America’s place in the world. Andrew Priest offers a new understanding of the roots of American empire that foregrounds the longer history of perceptions of European powers. He traces the development of American thinking about European imperialism in the years after the Civil War, before the United States embarked on its own overseas colonial projects. Designs on Empire examines responses to Napoleon III’s intervention in Mexico, Spain and the Ten Years’ War in Cuba, Britain’s occupation of Egypt, and the carving up of Africa at the Berlin Conference. Priest shows how observing and interacting with other empires shaped American understandings of the international environment and their own burgeoning power. He highlights ambivalence among American elites regarding empire as well as the prevalence of notions of racial hierarchy. While many deplored the way powerful nations dominated others, others saw imperial projects as the advance of civilization, and even critics often felt a closer affinity with European imperialists than colonized peoples. A wide-ranging book that blends intellectual, political, and diplomatic history, Designs on Empire sheds new light on the foundations of American power.

Empire's Legacy

Author : John W.P. Veugelers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190875674
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Empire's Legacy written by John W.P. Veugelers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many argue that globalization and its discontents explain the strength of populism and nativism in contemporary Europe, Latin America, and the United States. In France, though, an older potential born of imperialism has propelled the far right of Jean-Marie and Marine Le Pen. To explain how the National Front gained a foothold in France, Empire's Legacy connects local politics with historical developments that span nearly two centuries. Its analysis hinges on the idea of political potential: the possibility that a social group will support a movement, pressure group, political party, or other organized option. Starting from the French conquest of Algeria, John W.P Veugelers follows the career of a potential, showing how it erupted into support for the National Front in Toulon, the largest city under the far right of any postwar European democracy. Relying on archival research, electoral surveys, and personal interviews, Veugelers shows that voluntary associations, interest-group politics, and patron-client relations knit together a far-right affinity bequeathed by French imperialism. Veugelers examines the possibilities and limits of far-right power at the local level, moreover, and the barriers that effective, scandal-free government pose to extremist success. Exploring new terrain in the study of contemporary politics, Empire's Legacy makes the case for a subcultural approach that connects social networks to symbolic codes.

Rooney Custom Text - ENGL 3500: Literatures and Cultures 1700-1900

Author : Broadview Custom Texts
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1554594898
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book Rooney Custom Text - ENGL 3500: Literatures and Cultures 1700-1900 written by Broadview Custom Texts and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a Broadview Press Custom Text made available here for students in Professor Morgan Rooney's ENGL 3500: Literatures and Cultures 1700-1900 course at Carleton University.

Making the British empire, 1660–1800

Author : Jason Peacey
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526106108
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Making the British empire, 1660–1800 written by Jason Peacey and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers a timely reappraisal of the origins and nature of the first British empire, in response to the ‘cultural turn’ in historical scholarship and the ‘new imperial history’. It addresses topics that have been neglected in recent literature, providing a series of political and institutional perspective; at the same time it recognises the importance of developments across the empire, not least in terms of how they affected imperial ‘policy’ and its implementation. It analyses a range of contemporary debates and ideas – political and intellectual as well as religious and administrative – relating to political economy, legal geography and sovereignty, as well as the messy realities of the imperial project, including the costs and losses of empire, collectively and individually.

Territorial Shock

Author : Gertjan Dijkink
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643910126
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Territorial Shock written by Gertjan Dijkink and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2018-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are in the embrace of territorial shock today. Globalization with its migrants, foot-loose firms, cyber-war and surging income inequality induces political instability and longing for a `saviour'. This book puts such events in a historical perspective. New social trends collide with territorial principles (closure, identity, governance) that always have been taken for granted. Should we invest the new monarchs with the same authority as the pope (16th century) or accept other classes as co-citizens (19th century)? The answers implied a moral shift and so do our problems with globalization.

Audible Empire

Author : Ronald Radano
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822374943
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Audible Empire written by Ronald Radano and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audible Empire rethinks the processes and mechanisms of empire and shows how musical practice has been crucial to its spread around the globe. Music is a means of comprehending empire as an audible formation, and the contributors highlight how it has been circulated, consumed, and understood through imperial logics. These fifteen interdisciplinary essays cover large swaths of genre, time, politics, and geography, and include topics such as the affective relationship between jazz and cigarettes in interwar China; the sonic landscape of the U.S.– Mexico border; the critiques of post-9/11 U.S. empire by desi rappers; and the role of tonality in the colonization of Africa. Whether focusing on Argentine tango, theorizing anticolonialist sound, or examining the music industry of postapartheid South Africa, the contributors show how the audible has been a central component in the creation of imperialist notions of reason, modernity, and culture. In doing so, they allow us to hear how empire is both made and challenged. Contributors: Kofi Agawu, Philip V. Bohlman. Michael Denning, Brent Hayes Edwards, Nan Enstad, Andrew Jones, Josh Kun, Morgan Luker, Jairo Moreno, Tejumola Olaniyan, Marc Perry, Ronald Radano, Nitasha Sharma, Micol Seigel, Gavin Steingo, Penny Von Eschen, Amanda Weidman.

The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857

Author : Margot Finn
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787350290
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 written by Margot Finn and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The East India Company at Home, 1757–1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It includes chapters from researchers based in a wide range of settings such as archives and libraries, museums, heritage organisations, the community of family historians and universities. It moves beyond conventional academic narratives and makes an important contribution to ongoing debates around how empire impacted Britain. The volume focuses on the propertied families of the East India Company at the height of Company rule. From the Battle of Plassey in 1757 to the outbreak of the Indian Uprising in 1857, objects, people and wealth flowed to Britain from Asia. As men in Company service increasingly shifted their activities from trade to military expansion and political administration, a new population of civil servants, army officers, surveyors and surgeons journeyed to India to make their fortunes. These Company men and their families acquired wealth, tastes and identities in India, which travelled home with them to Britain. Their stories, the biographies of their Indian possessions and the narratives of the stately homes in Britain that came to house them, frame our explorations of imperial culture and its British legacies.

Scale, Crisis, and the Modern Novel

Author : Aaron Rosenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009271776
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Scale, Crisis, and the Modern Novel written by Aaron Rosenberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of how four industrial-age novelists confronted crises at new and unprecedented temporal, ecological and geographical scales.

Russian Empire

Author : Jane Burbank
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253219116
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Russian Empire written by Jane Burbank and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-08 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspectives on the strategies of imperial rule pursued by rulers, officials, scholars, and subjects of the Russian empire. This book explores the connections between Russia's expansion over vast territories occupied by people of many ethnicities, religions, and political experiences and the evolution of imperial administration and vision.