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“jonathan j arnold”

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  • Theoderic and the Roman Imperial Restoration

    by Jonathan J. Arnold ...
    This book provides a new interpretation of the fall of the Roman Empire and the 'barbarian' kingdom known conventionally as Ostrogothic Italy. Relying primarily on Italian textual and material evidence, and in particular the works of Cassiodorus and Ennodius, Jonathan J. Arnold argues that contemporary Italo-Romans viewed the Ostrogothic kingdom as the Western Roman Empire and its 'barbarian' king ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Politically Incorrect Guide to the British Empire

    by H. W. Crocker III ...
    The British Empire, ”the biggest empire in history”once ruled a quarter of the globe. It was built by an incredible array of swashbuckling soldiers and sailors, pirates and adventurers who finally get their due in H. W. Crocker III's panoramic and provocative view of four hundred years of history that will delight and amuse, educate and entertain. Strap on your pith helmet for a rollicking ride ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Land is Ours

    Black Lawyers and the Birth of Constitutionalism in South Africa

    by Tembeka Ngcukaitobi ...
    The Land Is Ours tells the story of South Africa’s first black lawyers, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In an age of aggressive colonial expansion, land dispossession and forced labour, these men believed in a constitutional system that respected individual rights and freedoms, and they used the law as an instrument against injustice.The book follows the lives, ideas and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume III: The Nineteenth Century

    by Wm Roger Louis ...
    Series Book 3 - The Oxford History of the British Empire
    The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the founding of colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century to the reversion of Hong Kong to China at the end of the twentieth, British imperialism was a catalyst for far-reaching change. The Oxford ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The Mind of Jawaharlal Nehru

    by Dr Sarvepalli Gopal ...
    This is the text of the Heras Memorial Lectures delivered in Mumbai in December 1977. They contain: 1. Formative Ideology2. Democracy and Socialism3. Internationalism ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Shattering Empires

    The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires 1908–1918

    by Michael A. Reynolds ...
    The break-up of the Ottoman empire and the disintegration of the Russian empire were watershed events in modern history. The unravelling of these empires was both cause and consequence of World War I and resulted in the deaths of millions. It irrevocably changed the landscape of the Middle East and Eurasia and reverberates to this day in conflicts throughout the Caucasus and Middle East. ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Taming the Wild Field

    Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe

    by Willard Sunderland ...
    Stretching from the tributaries of the Danube to the Urals and from the Russian forests to the Black and Caspian seas, the vast European steppe has for centuries played very different roles in the Russian imagination. To the Grand Princes of Kiev and Muscovy, it was the "wild field," a region inhabited by nomadic Turko-Mongolic peoples who repeatedly threatened the fragile Slavic settlements to ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The Burr Conspiracy

    Uncovering the Story of an Early American Crisis

    by James E. Lewis, Jr. ...
    A multifaceted portrait of the early American republic as seen through the lens of the Burr ConspiracyIn 1805 and 1806, Aaron Burr, former vice president of the newly formed American republic, traveled through the Trans-Appalachian West gathering support for a mysterious enterprise, for which he was arrested and tried for treason in 1807. This book explores the political and cultural forces that ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

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  • From Colony to Nationhood in Mexico

    Laying the Foundations, 1560–1840

    by Sean F. McEnroe ...
    In an age of revolution, Mexico's creole leaders held aloft the Virgin of Guadalupe and brandished an Aztec eagle perched upon a European tricolor. Their new constitution proclaimed 'the Mexican nation is forever free and independent'. Yet the genealogy of this new nation is not easy to trace. Colonial Mexico was a patchwork state whose new-world vassals served the crown, extended the empire's ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • The Road to War

    France and Vietnam 1944-1947

    by Martin Shipway ...
    Series Book 2 - Contemporary France
    How did France become embroiled in Vietnam, in the first of long wars of decolonization? And why did the French colonial administration, in late 1946, having negotiated with Ho Chi Minh for a year, adopt a warlike stance towards Ho's régime which ran counter to the liberal colonial doctrine of liberated France? Based on French archival sources, almost all of them previously unavailable to the ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Battle for Syria, 1918-1920

    by John D Grainger ...
    This book charts the continuing war between Britain and France on the one side and the Turkish Empire on the other following the British capture of Jerusalem in 1917. It outlines how the British prepared for their advance, bringing in Indian and Australian troops; how the Turks were defeated at the great Battle of Megiddo in September 1918; and how Damascus fell, the Australians and the Arab army, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Questioning Hybridity, Postcolonialism and Globalization

    by A. Acheraïou ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    AcheraIou analyzes hybridity using a theoretical, empirical approach that reorients debates on métissage and the 'Third Space', arguing for the decolonization of postcolonialism. Hybridity is examined in the light of globalization, indicating how postcolonial discourse could become a counter-hegemonic ethics of resistance to global neoliberal doxa. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD