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  • Rebels and Regimes

    The Nature of Violent Resistance in the Nineteenth Century

    by Joseph Beilein, Dr. Ian W Campbell, Joshua Samuel Gedacht, Jacob Ivey, Vitor Izecksohn, Marcus Nevius, Gavin Rand, Samuel Watson, Zhenman Ye ...
    Rebels and Regimes presents a global view of the nature of violent resistance throughout the nineteenth century. The volume’s breadth and scope reveal commonalities and differences among regimes and insurgents in their different contexts, offering a view that the participants themselves never had. The collection is composed of ten essays, each focused on a specific conflict or period of colonial ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Culture, Conflict and the Military in Colonial South Asia

    Edited by Kaushik Roy, Gavin Rand ...
    Series series War and Society in South Asia
    This book offers diverse and original perspectives on South Asia’s imperial military history. Unlike prevailing studies, the chapters in the volume emphasize both the vital role of culture in framing imperial military practice and the multiple cultural effects of colonial military service and engagements. The volume spans from the early East India Company period through to the Second World War and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Born in Blackness

    Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

    by Howard W. French ...
    Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history.Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history. Some credit the fifteenth-century Age of Discovery and the maritime connection it established between West and East; others the ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

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  • The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China

    A History

    by David J. Silbey ...
    A concise history of an uprising that took down a three-hundred-year-old dynasty and united the great powers.The year is 1900, and Western empires are locked in entanglements across the globe. The British are losing a bitter war against the Boers while the German kaiser is busy building a vast new navy. The United States is struggling to put down an insurgency in the South Pacific while the ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen

    Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World

    by Linda Colley ...
    Longlisted for the Cundill History PrizeProfiled in The New YorkerNew York Times Book Review • Editors’ ChoiceVivid and magisterial, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen reconfigures the rise of a modern world through the advent and spread of written constitutions.A work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutio... ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • Fighting for America

    The Struggle for Mastery in North America, 1519–1871

    by Jeremy Black ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    "Fascinating . . . [a] 300-plus year history of North America" from the award-winning historian and author of The Holocaust: History & Memory ( Military Heritage).Prize-winning author Jeremy Black traces the competition for control of North America from the landing of Spanish troops under Hernán Cortés in modern Mexico in 1519 to 1871 when, with the Treaty of Washington and the withdrawal of most ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • History Lessons

    How Textbooks from Around the World Portray U.S. History

    by Dana Lindaman, Kyle Ward ...
    A "fascinating" look at what students in Russia, France, Iran, and other nations are taught about America ( The New York Times Book Review).This "timely and important" book ( History News Network) gives us a glimpse into classrooms across the globe, where opinions about the United States are first formed.History Lessons includes selections from textbooks and teaching materials used in Russia, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On Wars

    by Michael Mann ...
    A history of wars through the ages and across the world, and the irrational calculations that so often lie behind themBenjamin Franklin once said, “There never was a good war or a bad peace.” But what determines whether war or peace is chosen? Award-winning sociologist Michael Mann concludes that it is a handful of political leaders—people with emotions and ideologies, and constrained by inherited ... Read more

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  • The Savage Wars Of Peace

    Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power

    by Max Boot ...
    "Anyone who wants to understand why America has permanently entered a new era in international relations must read [this book] . . . Vividly written and thoroughly researched." -- Los Angeles TimesAmerica's "small wars," "imperial war," or, as the Pentagon now terms them, "low-intensity conflicts," have played an essential but little-appreciated role in its growth as a world power. Beginning with ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Dutch Atlantic

    Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation

    by Kwame Nimako, Glenn Willemsen ...
    Series series Decolonial Studies, Postcolonial Horizons
    This book interrogates the Dutch involvement in Atlantic slavery and assesses the historical consequences of this for contemporary European society.Kwame Nimako and Glenn Willemsen show how the slave trade and slavery intertwined economic, social and cultural elements, including nation-state formation in the Netherlands and across Europe. They explore the mobilisation of European populations in ... Read more

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  • The Logic of Violence in Civil War

    by Stathis N. Kalyvas ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    By analytically decoupling war and violence, this book explores the causes and dynamics of violence in civil war. Against the prevailing view that such violence is an instance of impenetrable madness, the book demonstrates that there is logic to it and that it has much less to do with collective emotions, ideologies, and cultures than currently believed. Kalyvas specifies a novel theory of ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • A Short History of Power

    How societies create and sustain oppression, and how to resist it

    by Dr Dr Jack Davy ...
    'You could not ask for a more eloquent guide than this book. Essential' Sathnam SangheraAn eye-opening book about how societies are designed to support those in power, at the expense of those without it.COLONIAL POWERIn the 1950s, over 10,000 Kenyans were killed by the British during the Mau Mau uprising against a government determined to install a sympathetic post-independence regime and continue ... Read more

    $6.99 USD