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Author : Brian Lapping
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780246119698
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (196 download)
Download or read book End of Empire written by Brian Lapping and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Lapping
Publisher : New York : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312250720
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)
Download or read book End of Empire written by Brian Lapping and published by New York : St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1986-05-01 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the end of British colonialism and the political events leading to the independence of India, Palestine, Malaya, Iran, Egypt, Aden, Cyprus, Gold Coast, Kenya, and Rhodesia
Author : Michael Gehler
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3658368764
Total Pages : 737 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (583 download)
Download or read book The End of Empires written by Michael Gehler and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles of this comprehensive edited volume offer a multidisciplinary, global and comparative approach to the history of empires. They analyze their ends over a long spectrum of humankind’s history, ranging from Ancient History through Modern Times. As the main guiding question, every author of this volume scrutinizes the reasons for the decline, the erosion, and the implosion of individual empires. All contributions locate and highlight different factors that triggered or at least supported the ending or the implosion of empires. This overall question makes all the contributions to this volume comparable and allows to detect similarities, differences as well as inconsistencies of historical processes.
Author : David Porter Chandler
Publisher : ASIA Insights
ISBN 13 : 9788776941833
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (418 download)
Download or read book End of Empire written by David Porter Chandler and published by ASIA Insights. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Events during the one hundred days following Hiroshima had a profound effect on politics and society for decades to come.
Author : Chad Denton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781594163340
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (633 download)
Download or read book The Fall of Empires written by Chad Denton and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Historical Survey of the Many Ways Empires have Succumbed to External and Internal Pressures There are no self-proclaimed empires today. After the twentieth century, with its worldwide wave of decolonizing and liberation movements, the very word "empire" conjures images of slavery, war, repression, and colonialism. None of this is to say that empires are confined to the past, however. By at least some reasonable definitions, empires do exist today. Many articles and books speak about the decline of the "American Empire," for example, or compare the history of the United States to that of Rome or the British Empire. Yet no public official would speak candidly of American "imperial" interests in the Middle East or use the word "empire" in discussions of the nation's future the same way British politicians did in the twentieth century. In addition, empires don't have to fit the classical Roman mold; there are many kinds of empire and varieties of international authority, such as cultural imperialism and economic imperialism. But it is clear empires do not last, even those that once harnessed great wealth, strong armies, and sophisticated legal systems. InThe Fall of Empires: A Brief History of Imperial Collapse, historian Chad Denton describes the end of seventeen empires throughout world history, from Athens to Qin China, from the Byzantium to the Mughals. He reveals--through stories of conquest, corruption, incompetence, assassination, bigotry, and environmental crisis--how even the most seemingly eternal of empires declined. For Athens and Britain it was military hubris; for Qin China and Russia it was alienating their subjects through oppression; Persia succumbed with the loss of its capital; the Khmer faced ecological catastrophe; while the Aztecs were destroyed by colonial exploitation. None of these events alone explains why the empires fell, but they do provide a glimpse into the often-unpredictable currents of history, which have so far spared no empire. A fascinating and instructive survey, The Fall of Empiresprovides compelling evidence about the fate of centralized regional or global power.
Author : Alfred William Brian Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199267897
Total Pages : 1188 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (678 download)
Download or read book Human Rights and the End of Empire written by Alfred William Brian Simpson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Convention on Human Rights of 1950 established the most effective international system of human rights protection ever created. This is the first book that gives a comprehensive account of how it came into existence, of the part played in its genesis by the British government, and of its significance for Britain in the period between 1953 and 1966.
Author : Stuart Ward
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526119625
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book British culture and the end of empire written by Stuart Ward and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first major attempt to examine the cultural manifestations of the demise of imperialism as a social and political ideology in post-war Britain. Far from being a matter of indifference or resigned acceptance as is often suggested, the fall of the British Empire came as a profound shock to the British national imagination, and resonated widely in British popular culture. The sheer range of subjects discussed, from the satire boom of the 1960s to the worlds of sport and the arts, demonstrates how profoundly decolonisation was absorbed into the popular consciousness. Offers an extremely novel and provocative interpretation of post-war British cultural history, and opens up a whole new field of enquiry in the history of decolonisation.
Author : Rachael Gilmour
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1784991791
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)
Download or read book End of empire and the English novel since 1945 written by Rachael Gilmour and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available in paperback for the first time, this first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Particular genres are also discussed, including the family saga, travel writing, detective fiction and popular romances. All included reflect on the predicament of an England which no longer lies at the centre of imperial power, arriving at a fascinating diversity of conclusions about the meaning and consequences of the end of empire and the privileged location of the novel for discussing what decolonization meant for the domestic English population of the metropole. The book is written in an easy style, unburdened by large sections of abstract reflection. It endeavours to bring alive in a new way the traditions of the English novel.
Author : John Darwin
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631164289
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (642 download)
Download or read book The End of the British Empire written by John Darwin and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2006-12-15 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within twenty years of victory in the Second World War Britain had ceased to be a world power and her global empire has dissolved into fragments. With what now seems astonishing rapidity, and empire three centuries old, which had reached its greatest extent as late as 1921, was transformed into more than fifty sovereign states. Why did this great transformation come about? Had Britain simply become too weak in a world of superpowers? Had the pressure of colonial nationalism suddenly become overwhelming? Or had the British themselves decided that they no longer needed an empire, and that interests were better served by joining the rich man's club of Europe? In this short book, these and other theories are examined critically. The aim is not to present a detailed narrative of Britain's imperial retreat but to introduce the reader to the current state of debate in a rapidly expanding subject.
Author : Christopher Kelly
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393061965
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The End of Empire: Attila the Hun & the Fall of Rome written by Christopher Kelly and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conjuring up images of savagery and ferocity, Attila the Hun has become a byword for barbarianism. This history reframes the warrior king as a political strategist who dealt a seemingly invincible empire defeats from which it would never recover.
Author : Sabine Clarke
Publisher : Studies in Imperialism
ISBN 13 : 9781526131386
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (313 download)
Download or read book Science at the End of Empire written by Sabine Clarke and published by Studies in Imperialism. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is open access under a CC BY license. This is the first account of Britain's plans for industrial development in its Caribbean colonies - something that historians have usually said Britain never contemplated. It shows that Britain's remedy to the poor economic conditions in the Caribbean gave a key role to laboratory research to re-invent sugarcane as the raw material for making fuels, plastics and drugs. Science at the end of empire explores the practical and also political functions of scientific research and economic advisors for Britain at a moment in which Caribbean governments operated with increasing autonomy and the US was intent on expanding its influence in the region. Britain's preferred path to industrial development was threatened by an alternative promoted through the Caribbean Commission. The provision of knowledge and expertise became key routes by which Britain and America competed to shape the future of the region, and their place in it.
Author : Christopher Kelly
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446419320
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)
Download or read book Attila The Hun written by Christopher Kelly and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attila the Hun - godless barbarian and near-mythical warrior king - has become a byword for mindless ferocity. His brutal attacks smashed through the frontiers of the Roman empire in a savage wave of death and destruction. His reign of terror shattered an imperial world that had been securely unified by the conquests of Julius Caesar five centuries before. This book goes in search of the real Attila the Hun. For the first time it reveals the history of an astute politician and first-rate military commander who brilliantly exploited the strengths and weaknesses of the Roman empire. We ride with Attila and the Huns from the windswept steppes of Kazakhstan to the opulent city of Constantinople, from the Great Hungarian Plain to the fertile fields of Champagne in France. Challenging our own ideas about barbarians and Romans, imperialism and civilisation, terrorists and superpowers, this is the absorbing story of an extraordinary and complex individual who helped to bring down an empire and forced the map of Europe to be redrawn forever.
Author : Danny Dorling
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785904566
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (859 download)
Download or read book Rule Britannia written by Danny Dorling and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Things fall apart when empires crumble. This time, we think, things will be different. They are not. This time, we are told, we will become great again. We will not. In this new edition of the hugely successful Rule Britannia, Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson argue that the vote to leave the EU was the last gasp of the old empire working its way out of the British psyche. Fuelled by a misplaced nostalgia, the result was driven by a lack of knowledge of Britain's imperial history, by a profound anxiety about Britain's status today, and by a deeply unrealistic vision of our future.
Author : Phillip Buckner
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774850663
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Canada and the End of Empire written by Phillip Buckner and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir John Seeley once wrote that the British Empire was acquired in "a fit of absence of mind." Whatever the truth of this comment, it is certainly arguable that the Empire was dismantled in such a fit. This collection deals with a neglected subject in post-Confederation Canadian history -- the implications to Canada and Canadians of British decolonization and the end of empire. Canada and the End of Empire looks at Canadian diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom and the United States, the Suez crisis, the changing economic relationship with Great Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, the role of educational and cultural institutions in maintaining the British connection, the royal tour of 1959, the decision to adopt a new flag in 1964, the efforts to find a formula for repatriating the constitution, the Canadianization of the Royal Canadian Navy, and the attitude of First Nations to the changed nature of the Anglo-Canadian relationship. Historians in Commonwealth countries tend to view the end of British rule from a nationalist perspective. Canada and the End of Empire challenges this view and demonstrates the centrality of imperial history in Canadian historiography. An important addition to the growing canon of empire studies and imperial history, this book will be of interest to historians of the Commonwealth, and to scholars and students interested in the relationship between colonialism and nationalism.
Author : Jan-Bart Gewald
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004209867
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Living the End of Empire written by Jan-Bart Gewald and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the foundational work of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, the essays contained in Living the End of Empire offer a more nuanced and complex picture of the late-colonial period in Zambia than has hitherto been presented in nationalist histories.
Author : Sarah Stockwell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107070317
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The British End of the British Empire written by Sarah Stockwell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of empire in Britain itself is illuminated through explorations of its impact on key domestic institutions.
Author : Alexis A. Gilliland
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 9780345313348
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book The End of the Empire written by Alexis A. Gilliland and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 1983 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
