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Author : George Griffith
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Men who Have Made the Empire written by George Griffith and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Chetwynd Griffith
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Men Who Have Made the Empire written by George Chetwynd Griffith and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The empire mentioned in the title is none other than the British Empire, which during the time the book was written, was at a period referred to as Britain's "imperial century" by some historians, having around 10 million sq mi (26 million km2) of territory and roughly 400 million people living within the boundaries of what was then called the British Empire. The author here shines the spotlight on the men who made it possible - from the times of Edward I of England to those of Cecil Rhodes.
Author : Gustave Louis Maurice Strauss
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Men who Have Made the New German Empire written by Gustave Louis Maurice Strauss and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Chetwynd Chetwynd Griffith
Publisher : Writat
ISBN 13 : 9789390439003
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Men Who Have Made the Empire written by George Chetwynd Chetwynd Griffith and published by Writat. This book was released on 2020-10-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are two kinds of patriotism, a smaller and a greater, a National and an Imperial. Both are equally good and noble, and it is necessary that the first should precede the second. But it is equally necessary that it should not supersede or obscure it, and it is to this later and greater, this Imperial patriotism that I shall appeal, and I would ask my readers, whatever their nationality, to remember that on the burning plains of India and the rolling prairies of Canada, in the vast expanses of the Australian Bush and the African Veld, there are neither Englishmen nor Scotsmen, Welshmen nor Irishmen; but only Citizens of the Empire, brothers in blood and speech, and fellow-workers in the building up of the noblest and stateliest fabric that human hands have ever reared or God's sun has ever shone upon.
Author : Daniel Immerwahr
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374715122
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book How to Hide an Empire written by Daniel Immerwahr and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago Tribune A Publishers Weekly best book of 2019 | A 2019 NPR Staff Pick A pathbreaking history of the United States’ overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an “empire,” exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories—the islands, atolls, and archipelagos—this country has governed and inhabited? In How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light. We travel to the Guano Islands, where prospectors collected one of the nineteenth century’s most valuable commodities, and the Philippines, site of the most destructive event on U.S. soil. In Puerto Rico, Immerwahr shows how U.S. doctors conducted grisly experiments they would never have conducted on the mainland and charts the emergence of independence fighters who would shoot up the U.S. Congress. In the years after World War II, Immerwahr notes, the United States moved away from colonialism. Instead, it put innovations in electronics, transportation, and culture to use, devising a new sort of influence that did not require the control of colonies. Rich with absorbing vignettes, full of surprises, and driven by an original conception of what empire and globalization mean today, How to Hide an Empire is a major and compulsively readable work of history.
Author : George Chetwynd Griffith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331214991
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (149 download)
Download or read book Men Who Have Made the Empire (Classic Reprint) written by George Chetwynd Griffith and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Men Who Have Made the Empire About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : George Griffith
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Men Who Have Made the Empire written by George Griffith and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-03 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IT may strike those of my readers who have only got their history from their school-books as somewhat strange that I should begin my record of British Empire-Makers with a man whom they have been taught to look upon as a foreigner, an invader, a conqueror, and a ruthless oppressor of the English.The answer is simple, though manifold. The school-books are only filled with potted facts, and are therefore wrong and unreliable. It has been well said that England was made on the shores of the Baltic Sea and the German Ocean. The so-called Englishmen who occupied it at the time of the Conquest were not Englishmen at all, for the simple reason that the true English race had yet to be born, and, after it, the true British.The England and Scotland of the eleventh century were peopled, not by nations, but by tribes mostly at bitter and constant war with each other. There were still Jutes and Angles, Picts and Scots, Danes and Swedes and Norwegians, each occupying their own little stretch of country, and governed, more or less effectually, by their chieftains, in proof of which it is enough to recall the fact that Harold's last fight but one was against his own brother, who had come across the Narrow Seas at the head of a miscellaneous crowd of hungry pirates to steal as much as he could of the ownerless heritage that Edward the Confessor had left behind him.
Author : Gustave Louis Maurice Strauss
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Men who Have Made the New German Empire written by Gustave Louis Maurice Strauss and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Chetwynd Griffith JONES (afterwards GRIFFITH (George Chetwynd))
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (776 download)
Download or read book Men who Have Made the Empire ... New Edition, Etc written by George Chetwynd Griffith JONES (afterwards GRIFFITH (George Chetwynd)) and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Chetwynd Griffith
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Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (849 download)
Download or read book Men Who Have Made the Empire written by George Chetwynd Griffith and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The England and Scotland of the eleventh century were peopled, not by nations, but by tribes mostly at bitter and constant war with each other. There were still Jutes and Angles, Picts and Scots, Danes and Swedes and Norwegians, each occupying their own little stretch of country, and governed, more or less effectually, by their chieftains, in proof of which it is enough to recall the fact that Harold's last fight but one was against his own brother, who had come across the Narrow Seas at the head of a miscellaneous crowd of hungry pirates to steal as much as he could of the ownerless heritage that Edward the Confessor had left behind him.A good deal of sentiment, more or less born of deftly-written romances, has glorified the memory of this same Harold. Whether it was deserved or not does not concern us now, any more than does his right or unright to the throne of England. It is enough here to grant him all honour as an able leader of armies, and a man who knew how to snatch victory from defeat, and glory from disaster by dying like a hero surrounded by the corpses of his foes.The idle question whether he or William had the better right to the crown of England may be left to those who care for such quibbling. Let us, at the outset, in the words of the Sage of Chelsea, "clear our minds of cant." There is no "right" or "wrong" in these things, saving only the eternal right of the strongest and wisest-the fittest or most suitable, in short, to wield power and dominion whether the less fit like it or not. The peoples are thrust headlong into the fiery crucible of War, and, on the adamantine anvil of Destiny, the Thor's Hammer of Battle beats and crushes them into the shape that God has designed for them. It seems a rude method, but in many thousands of years we have found no other, so at least we may conclude that it is the best one known.There is a very deep meaning in the seemingly flippant and almost impious saying of Napoleon: "God fights on the side of the biggest battalions." He does-but you must reckon the bigness of the battalions, not only by their numbers, but by the value of their units, remembering always that one man with a stout heart and a cause he honestly believes in is worth a score who have neither heart nor faith.Just such a man was William the Norman, son of Robert the Magnificent, otherwise styled the Devil, and Arlette the Fair, daughter of Fulbert the Tanner of Falaise. It is in this birth of his that we find the first clue to his real greatness. He was born of a union unhallowed by the sanction of the Church, among a people proud beyond all modern belief of their royal sea-king ancestry.How did he come to achieve this almost miraculous triumph over a prejudice and hostility of which we can now form but a very dim idea?
Author : George Chetwynd Griffith JONES (afterwards GRIFFITH (George Chetwynd))
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (562 download)
Download or read book Men who Have Made the Empire written by George Chetwynd Griffith JONES (afterwards GRIFFITH (George Chetwynd)) and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barry Strauss
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982116692
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book The War That Made the Roman Empire written by Barry Strauss and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “splendid” (The Wall Street Journal) account of one of history’s most important and yet little-known wars, the campaign culminating in the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, whose outcome determined the future of the Roman Empire. Following Caesar’s assassination and Mark Antony’s defeat of the conspirators who killed Caesar, two powerful men remained in Rome—Antony and Caesar’s chosen heir, young Octavian, the future Augustus. When Antony fell in love with the most powerful woman in the world, Egypt’s ruler Cleopatra, and thwarted Octavian’s ambition to rule the empire, another civil war broke out. In 31 BC one of the largest naval battles in the ancient world took place—more than 600 ships, almost 200,000 men, and one woman—the Battle of Actium. Octavian prevailed over Antony and Cleopatra, who subsequently killed themselves. The Battle of Actium had great consequences for the empire. Had Antony and Cleopatra won, the empire’s capital might have moved from Rome to Alexandria, Cleopatra’s capital, and Latin might have become the empire’s second language after Greek, which was spoken throughout the eastern Mediterranean, including Egypt. In this “superbly recounted” (The National Review) history, Barry Strauss, ancient history authority, describes this consequential battle with the drama and expertise that it deserves. The War That Made the Roman Empire is essential history that features three of the greatest figures of the ancient world.
Author : Robert A. Bickers
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231131322
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (313 download)
Download or read book Empire Made Me written by Robert A. Bickers and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This riveting "biography of a nobody" offers a rare view of empire from the bottom up and a glimpse of the making of modern China. Robert Bickers mines the letters of Richard Tinkler along with archival files to create a fascinating and much-needed narrative of everyday life in the colonial world and an unvarnished portrait of the colonial experience that will permanently affect our view of it.
Author : John Perkins
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780525950158
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Secret History of the American Empire written by John Perkins and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this riveting memoir, bestselling author Perkins details his former role as an economic hit man. This stunning, behind-the-scenes expos reveals a conspiracy of corruption that has fueled instability and anti-Americanism around the globe.
Author : Neal Gabler
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 030777371X
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book An Empire of Their Own written by Neal Gabler and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative, original, and richly entertaining group biography of the Jewish immigrants who were the moving forces behind the creation of America's motion picture industry. The names Harry Cohn, William Fox, Carl Laemmle, Louis B. Mayer, Jack and Harry Warner, and Adolph Zucker are giants in the history of contemporary Hollywood, outsiders who dared to invent their own vision of the American Dream. Even to this day, the American values defined largely by the movies of these émigrés endure in American cinema and culture. Who these men were, how they came to dominate Hollywood, and what they gained and lost in the process is the exhilarating story of An Empire of Their Own.
Author : Howard Zinn
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780060528423
Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (284 download)
Download or read book A People's History of the United States written by Howard Zinn and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003-02-04 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools -- with its emphasis on great men in high places -- to focus on the street, the home, and the, workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As historian Howard Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles -- the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women's rights, racial equality -- were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance. Covering Christopher Columbus's arrival through President Clinton's first term, A People's History of the United States, which was nominated for the American Book Award in 1981, features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history. Revised, updated, and featuring a new after, word by the author, this special twentieth anniversary edition continues Zinn's important contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history.
Author : Gustave Louis Maurice Strauss
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781355762584
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Men Who Have Made the New German Empire written by Gustave Louis Maurice Strauss and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-07 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
