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  • Empire:A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen Howe ...
    Series series
    A great deal of the world's history is the history of empires. Indeed it could be said that all history is colonial history, if one takes a broad enough definition and goes far enough back. And although the great historic imperial systems, the land-based Russian one as well as the seaborne empires of western European powers, have collapsed during the past half century, their legacies shape almost ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The New Imperial Histories Reader

    Edited by Stephen Howe ...
    Series series Routledge Readers in History
    In recent years, imperial history has experienced a newfound vigour, dynamism and diversity. There has been an explosion of new work in the field, which has been driven into even greater prominence by contemporary world events. However, this resurgence has brought with it disputes between those who are labelled as exponents of a ‘new imperial history’ and those who can, by default, be termed old ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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    Empire

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen Howe ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 18 min

    A great deal of the world's history is the history of empires. Indeed it could be said that all history is colonial history, if one takes a broad enough definition and goes far enough back. And although the great historic imperial systems—the land-based Russian one as well as the seaborne empires of western European powers—have collapsed during the past half century, their legacies shape almost ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Engineering

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Blockley ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Engineering is part of almost everything we do - from the water we drink and the food we eat, to the buildings we live in and the roads and railways we travel on. In this Very Short Introduction, David Blockley explores the nature and practice of engineering, its history, its scope, and its relationship with art, craft, science, and technology. He considers the role of engineering in the modern ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Immobile Empire

    by Alain Peyrefitte ...
    In 1793, Lord George Macartney and an enormous delegation—including diplomats, doctors, scholars, painters, musicians, soldiers, and aristocrats—entered Beijing on a mission to open China to British trade. But Macartney’s famous refusal to perform the traditional kowtow before the Chinese Emperor was just one sign that the two empires would not see eye to eye, and the trade talks failed. The ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • When the Future Disappears

    The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea

    by Janet Poole ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    Taking a panoramic view of Korea's dynamic literary production in the final decade of Japanese rule, When the Future Disappears locates the imprint of a new temporal sense in Korean modernism: the impression of time interrupted, with no promise of a future. As colonial subjects of an empire headed toward total war, Korean writers in this global fascist moment produced some of the most ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • The Global History of the Balfour Declaration

    Declared Nation

    by Maryanne A. Rhett ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    This book examines the development and issuance of the Balfour Declaration, the document that set the stage for the creation of the state of Israel, within its global setting. The heart of the book demonstrates that the Declaration developed and contributed to a juncture in a global dialogue about the nature and definition of nation at the outset of the twentieth century. Embedded in this ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Language and Mobility

    Unexpected Places

    by Alastair Pennycook ...
    Series Book 15 - Critical Language and Literacy Studies
    This book looks at language in unexpected places. Drawing on a diversity of materials and contexts, including farewell addresses to British workers in colonial India, letters written from parents to their children at home, a Cornish anthem sung in South Australia, a country fair in rural Australia, and a cricket match played in the middle of the 19th century in south India, this book explores many ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • A Threat of the First Magnitude

    FBI Counterintelligence & Infiltration From the Communist Party to the Revolutionary Union 1962-1974

    by Aaron J Leonard, Conor A Gallagher ...
    Discover the inner workings of FBI counterintelligence in this untold story of the FBI informants who infiltrated the Communist Party, the Black Panther Party, and other threats to US security.A Threat of the First Magnitude tells the story of the FBI’s fake Maoist organization and the informants they used to penetrate the highest levels of the Communist Party USA, the Black Panther Party, the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Child Slavery before and after Emancipation

    An Argument for Child-Centered Slavery Studies

    Edited by Anna Mae Duane ...
    Series series Slaveries since Emancipation
    If we are to fully understand how slavery survived legal abolition, we must grapple with the work that abolition has left undone, and dismantle the structures that abolition has left in place. Child Slavery before and after Emancipation seeks to enable a vital conversation between historical and modern slavery studies - two fields that have traditionally run along parallel tracks rather than in ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Kourou and the Struggle for a French America

    by M. Godfroy ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Kourou was to be a wonderful revenge, a French colony in America after the Seven Years War in 1763. However, the fantastic ideal became a grand failure and political disaster, marking the end of the French attempts for an American colony. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Evangelical Millennialism in the Trans-Atlantic World, 1500-2000

    by C. Gribben ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book offers the first complete overview of the intellectual history of one of the most significant contemporary cultural trends – the apocalyptic expectations of European and American evangelicals – in an account that guides readers into the origins, its evolution, and its revolutionary potential in the modern world. ... Read more

    $152.09 USD