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The Decaying Empire

Author : Laura Thalassa
Publisher : Skyscape
ISBN 13 : 9781477829042
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Decaying Empire written by Laura Thalassa and published by Skyscape. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When eighteen-year-old teleporter Ember Pierce wakes up in a Los Angeles hospital, she remembers only the basics: she's been trained by the government as a spy, she's sent on dangerous missions, and her last assignment--the one that landed her in the hospital--was a setup. Caden Hawthorne has spent the past ten months of his life grieving Ember's death. So when she shows up in his room like an apparition, he can't believe his eyes. But this Ember is different. Her hair is longer, her skin is paler, her gaze is haunted. She tells him what he's already begun to suspect: someone he trusted betrayed her. Now, uncertain who is friend and who is foe, Ember and Caden face the toughest mission of their lives--to stay together and survive, as they run from danger toward an unknown future.

Dying Empire

Author : Francis Shor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135262446
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Dying Empire written by Francis Shor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-04 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the 1970s the global hegemony established by an American Empire in the post-World War II period faced increasing resistance abroad and contradictions at home. Contextualizing that hegemony, resistance and contradictions is the focus of Dying Empire. Presenting a wide-ranging synthesis of approaches, the book attempts to shed light on the construction of and challenges to the military, economic, and cultural imperial projects of the United States in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Opposing US imperialism and global domination, Francis Shor combines academic and activist perspectives to analyze the crises endemic to empire and to propose a vision for the realization of another more socially just world. The text incorporates the most recent critical discussions of US imperialism and globalization from above and below to illuminate the practices and possibilities for global resistance. Offering insights into the political and cultural convulsions of recent decades whilst raising profound and compelling questions, this book will be of interest to activists, students, and scholars of American political culture, US foreign policy, globalization, imperialism, international relations, and social movements.

The British Empire [2 volumes]

Author : Mark Doyle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440841985
Total Pages : 701 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book The British Empire [2 volumes] written by Mark Doyle and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-06-29 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential starting point for anyone wanting to learn about life in the largest empire in history, this two-volume work encapsulates the imperial experience from the 16th–21st centuries. From early sixteenth-century explorations to the handover of Hong Kong in 1997, the British Empire controlled outposts on every continent, spreading its people and ideas across the globe and profiting mightily in the process. The present state of our world—from its increasing interconnectedness to its vast inequalities and from the successful democracies of North America to the troubled regimes of Africa and the Middle East—can be traced, in large part, to the way in which Great Britain expanded and controlled its empire. The British Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia addresses a broader range of topics than do most other surveys of the empire, covering not only major political and military developments but also topics that have only recently come to serious scholarly attention, such as women's and gender history, art and architecture, indigenous histories and perspectives, and the construction of colonial knowledge and ideologies. By going beyond the "headline" events of the British Empire, this captivating work communicates the British imperial experience in its totality.

Europe in the Sixteenth Century

Author : H.G. Koenigsberger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317875869
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Europe in the Sixteenth Century written by H.G. Koenigsberger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bestselling, seminal book - a general survey of Europe in the era of `Rennaisance and Reformation' - was originally published in Denys Hay's famous Series, `A General History of Europe'. It looks at sixteenth-century Europe as a complex but interconnected whole, rather than as a mosaic of separate states. The authors explore its different aspects through the various political structures of the age - empires, monarchies, city-republics - and how they functioned and related to one another. A strength of the book remains the space it devotes to the growing importance of town-life in the sixteenth century, and to the economic background of political change.

Rulers and Ruled in the US Empire

Author : James Petras
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 0932863728
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book Rulers and Ruled in the US Empire written by James Petras and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-04-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive guide to the systemic dimensions of the US empire. Petras elaborates the changes within the US ruling class, as its manufacturing sector declines and gives way to the ascendancy of finance capital, illustrated by its dominance of both the US economy, and the parameters for political debate on the US role in the world economy (globalization, trade liberalization). Petras addresses the fallacy of discussions on the imminent collapse of capitalism when what is occurring in reality is the collapse of workers' rights. He elaborates the contradictions in current immigration/trade liberalization policies, and how these work toward forcing the displacement of peoples, and furthering the underdevelopment of third world countries. He reveals the dark heart of modern empire, in the emergence and proliferation of holocaust-scale carnage.and further outlines how the world capitalist system is laced together in an intricate hierarchy where the US pulls most of the strings, even outside its ostensible area of dominance. The role of corruption in securing world markets is addressed, as are the reasons for the spectacular global growth in new billionaires. The role of the Zionist Lobby in America is examined as it relates to the catastrophic wars in Iraq and Lebanon, and the threat of a further attack on Iran. A mounting schism within the US ruling elite between its pro-Zionist sector concerned with advancing the interests of Israel, and the traditional ruling elite concerned with protecting US imperial interests worldwide is addressed in relation to the Iraq Study Group's failed effort to introduce changes in current US Middle East policy. Finance capital and its political representatives in the US government depend on the support of client regimes in other countries, which include those considered relatively `center left', to sustain the US empire. However, in pursuit of freedom, justice, national independence and peace, powerful social movements and in some circumstances armed national resistance forces have emerged to challenge American dominance. Petras sheds light on the actual status of contemporary resistance to US hegemony within China, Latin America, and the Middle East.

Enlightenment and Revolution

Author : Paschalis M. Kitromilides
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674726413
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Enlightenment and Revolution written by Paschalis M. Kitromilides and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greece sits at the center of a geopolitical storm that threatens the stability of the European Union. To comprehend how this small country precipitated such an outsized crisis, it is necessary to understand how Greece developed into a nation in the first place. Enlightenment and Revolution identifies the ideological traditions that shaped a religious community of Greek-speaking people into a modern nation-state--albeit one in which antiliberal forces have exacted a high price. Paschalis Kitromilides takes in the vast sweep of the Greek Enlightenment in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, assessing developments such as the translation of modern authors into Greek; the scientific revolution; the rediscovery of the civilization of classical Greece; and a powerful countermovement. He shows how Greek thinkers such as Voulgaris and Korais converged with currents of the European Enlightenment, and demonstrates how the Enlightenment's confrontation with Church-sanctioned ideologies shaped present-day Greece. When the nation-state emerged from a decade-long revolutionary struggle against the Ottoman Empire in the early nineteenth century, the dream of a free Greek polity was soon overshadowed by a romanticized nationalist and authoritarian vision. The failure to create a modern liberal state at that decisive moment is at the root of Greece's recent troubles.

Age Of Empire: 1875-1914

Author : Eric Hobsbawm
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0297865293
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book Age Of Empire: 1875-1914 written by Eric Hobsbawm and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE AGE OF EMPIRE is a book about the strange death of the nineteenth century, the world made by and for liberal middle classes in the name of universal progress and civilisation. It is about hopes realised which turned into fears: an era of unparalleled peace engendering an era of unparalleled war; revolt and revolution emerging on the outskirts of society; a time of profound identity crisis for bourgeois classes, among new and sudden mass labour movements which rejected capitalism and new middle classes which rejected liberalism. It is about world empires built and held with almost contemptuous ease by small bodies of Europeans which were to last barely a human lifetime, and a European domination of world history, which was never more confident than at the moment it was about to disappear for ever. It is about Queen Victoria, Madame Curie and the Kodak Girl, and the novel social world of cloth caps, golf clubs and brassieres, about Nietzsche, Carnegie, William Morris and Dreyfus, about politically ineffective terrorists, one of whom, to his and everyone's surprise, started a world war. With the AGE OF EMPIRE, Eric Hobsbawm, Britain's leading historian of the left, brings to a dazzling climax his brilliant interpretative history of 'the long nineteenth century'.

Daughters of a Dead Empire

Author : Carolyn Tara O’Neil
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
ISBN 13 : 1250755549
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Daughters of a Dead Empire written by Carolyn Tara O’Neil and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This fresh, thrilling take on Anastasia establishes that O'Neil is a debut author to watch." —Buzzfeed From debut author Carolyn Tara O'Neil comes a thrilling alternate history set during the Russian Revolution. Russia, 1918: With the execution of Tsar Nicholas, the empire crumbles and Russia is on the edge of civil war—the poor are devouring the rich. Anna, a bourgeois girl, narrowly escaped the massacre of her entire family in Yekaterinburg. Desperate to get away from the Bolsheviks, she offers a peasant girl a diamond to take her as far south as possible—not realizing that the girl is a communist herself. With her brother in desperate need of a doctor, Evgenia accepts Anna's offer and suddenly finds herself on the wrong side of the war. Anna is being hunted by the Bolsheviks, and now—regardless of her loyalties—Evgenia is too. Daughters of a Dead Empire is a harrowing historical thriller about dangerous ideals, inequality, and the price we pay for change. An imaginative retelling of the Anastasia story. A Junior Library Guild Selection

History and the Idea of Progress

Author : Arthur M. Melzer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501744674
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book History and the Idea of Progress written by Arthur M. Melzer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication of Francis Fukuyama's article, "The End of History?" prompted a wave of public debates about democracy, progress, and the idea of history. In this book, twelve distinguished cultural commentators offer a brilliant array of responses to those debates. Fukuyama's controversial essay had considered whether Western-style democracy might be the endpoint of an inevitable historical development. For the present volume, the chapters—none of which has appeared elsewhere—include both a keynote chapter by Fukuyama and a series of spirited alternatives to his position. Additional essays examine the historical and philosophical origins of the idea of history that lies behind today's perspectives on progress and politics.

Mergers, Acquisitions and Global Empires

Author : Ko Unoki
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415528747
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Mergers, Acquisitions and Global Empires written by Ko Unoki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the author weaves a unique narrative that looks at both empires of business created from mergers and acquisitions and global empires from world history in an attempt to answer the question: why do certain empires endure for long periods while others collapse in a short space of time.

The End of Empire?

Author : Karen Dawisha
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9781563243691
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book The End of Empire? written by Karen Dawisha and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1997 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

A Thousand Years

Author : Maurice H. Harris
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752393297
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book A Thousand Years written by Maurice H. Harris and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: A Thousand Years by Maurice H. Harris

Constructing Post-Imperial Britain: Britishness, 'Race' and the Radical Left in the 1960s

Author : J. Burkett
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137008911
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Constructing Post-Imperial Britain: Britishness, 'Race' and the Radical Left in the 1960s written by J. Burkett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of empire shaped the way the British public saw their place in the world, society and the ethnic and racial boundaries of their nation. Focussing on some of the most controversial organisations of the 1960s, this book illuminates their central importance in constructing post-imperial Britain.

The Principles of International Law

Author : Thomas Joseph Lawrence
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Principles of International Law written by Thomas Joseph Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Correspondence of H.G. Wells

Author : David C. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100038084X
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Correspondence of H.G. Wells written by David C. Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of H.G. Wells's correspondence draws on over 50 archives and libraries worldwide, including the papers of Wells's daughter by Amber Reeves. The book contains over 2,000 letters, and while a few are business – to publishers, agents and secretaries – the majority are much more personal. Wells's private correspondence extends from letters to President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and A.J. Balfour, to persons such as ‘Mark Benney’, who wrote novels based on his life in the slums and his time in prison. There is correspondence too with his many female friends and lovers, among them Rebecca West, Eileen Power, Gertrude Stein, Marie Stopes, Lilah MacCarthy and Dorothy Richardson. For example, a letter from Moura Budberg, with whom Wells had a long-standing affair, which announces that she is pregnant by him and about to have an abortion, reveals how an advocate of birth control is himself caught out. Wells also enjoyed correspondence with the press, particularly during the two World Wars, and with various BBC officials and people who worked on his films. Some of his letters on the controversies of free love, socialism, birth control, the Fabian Society, and the nature of the curriculum of the new London University in the 1890s are included. Interspersed chronologically with Wells's letters is a small selection of about 40 letters to Wells, where letters from him are not extant. Among these are letters from Ray Lankester, Joseph Conrad, C.G. Jung, Trotsky, Hedy Gatternigg (the woman who attempted suicide in Wells's flat), and J.C. Smuts. The letters are arranged in these periods: Volume 1 1878–1900; Volume 2 1901–1912; Volume 3 1913–1930; and Volume 4 1930–1946. H.G. Wells's works include The Time Machine (1895), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898), The History of Mr Polly (1910), and A Short History of the World (1922).

Empire's End

Author : David Dunwoody
Publisher : Permuted Press
ISBN 13 : 193486174X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Empire's End written by David Dunwoody and published by Permuted Press. This book was released on 2011-04-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dead refuse to stay dead. The Reaper is here to put them down. As winter sets in and America’s survivors struggle to rebuild a semblance of civilization, terrifying new enemies are gathering—both in the lawless badlands and within the walls of the safe zone. Most fearsome of all is the “King of the Dead.” His zombified troupe of sideshow curiosities is but a fraction of his growing pack. The Reaper’s quest to safeguard the humans he has befriended places him on the trail of these feral undead. But he is sorely unprepared for the return of the zombie transformed by his own flesh, the Omega—a fiend driven by something more sinister than any virus. Meanwhile, Death’s questions about his origin haunt him, and he is close to the answers... but the worst of both the living and the dead are rising in his path, and he’ll have to cut them all down to reach the cosmic endgame.

Currency Convertibility

Author : Barry Eichengreen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134825692
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Currency Convertibility written by Barry Eichengreen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spread of currency convertibility is one of the most dramatic trends of the late twentieth century. It reflects the desire of policymakers to integrate their economies into the global trading system and to attract financial capital and direct investment from abroad. In this book a team of leading international economists and economic historians look at parallel situations in the history of the international monetary system, focusing in particular on the gold standard. The concluding chapter uses a case study of modern Portugal to draw out implications for modern international monetary relations in Europe and for the rest of the world.