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The Last Colony
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Author : Philippe Sands
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2022-08-25
The Last Colony written by Philippe Sands and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-25 with Political Science categories.
FROM THE WINNER OF THE BAILIE GIFFORD PRIZE THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Should be read by anyone who cares about justice, humanity and human rights' Elif Shafak 'An essential account' Sunday Times 'Powerful and persuasive . . . superb' Abdulrazak Gurnah 'An urgent reminder that Britain's colonial rule isn't our past. It's our present' New Statesman 'An important [book]' Observer 'Elegant, moving and profoundly informative' The Scotsman Through one woman's fight for justice, the award-winning author of East West Street exposes the shocking events that marked the 1965 establishment of the British Indian Ocean Territory. Written with Sands' characteristic expertise, insight and thrilling storytelling, The Last Colony lays bare the brutal legacy of colonial rule, the devastating impact of Britain's grip on its last colony in Africa and the ongoing struggle to right a historic wrong.
The Last Colony
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Author : John Scalzi
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2010-11-23
The Last Colony written by John Scalzi and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-23 with Fiction categories.
Hard-core military science fiction at its very best, John Scalzi's The Last Colony is the third in The Old Man's War series. They must save themselves – or die trying. John Perry was living peacefully on one of humanity's colonies – until he and his wife were offered an opportunity these ex-supersoldiers couldn't resist. To come out of retirement and lead a new frontier world. However, once on the planet, they discover they've been betrayed. For this colony is a pawn in an interstellar game of war and diplomacy. Humanity's Colonial Union has pitched itself against a new, seemingly unstoppable alien alliance, dedicated to ending all human colonization. As this contest rages above, Perry struggles to keep his terrified colonists alive on the surface below – despite dangerous interstellar politics, violence and treachery. And the planet has yet to reveal its own fatal secrets. Continue the gripping space war series with Zoe's Tale.
The Last Colony
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Author : Philippe Sands
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2023-09-26
The Last Colony written by Philippe Sands and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-26 with History categories.
The moving, inspiring David-and-Goliath true story of freedom and justice involving one tiny nation in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa, and the extraordinary woman, a descendant of slaves, who dared to take on the Crown and the United Kingdom—and win a historic victory In 1973, on the Chagos Islands off the coast of Africa, Liseby Elyse—twenty years old, newly married and four months pregnant—was, rounded up, along with the entire population of Chagos, and ordered to pack her belongings and leave her beloved homeland by ship or slowly starve; the British had cut off all food supplies. Some two thousand people who had lived on the islands of Chagos for generations, many the direct descendants of enslaved people brought there from Mozambique and Madagascar in the 18th century by the French and British, were deported overnight from their island paradise as the result of a secret decision by the British government to provide the United States with land to construct a military base in the Indian Ocean. For four decades the government of Mauritius fought for the return of Chagos. Three decades into the battle, Philippe Sands became the lead lawyer in the case, designing its legal strategy and assembling a team of lawyers from Mauritius, Belgium, India, Ukraine, and the U.S. When the case finally reached the World Court in the Hague, Sands chose as the star witness the diminutive Liseby Elyse, now sixty-five years old, and instructed her to appear before the court, speaking in Kreol, to tell the fourteen international judges her story of forced exile. The fate of Chagos rested on her testimony. The judges faced a landmark decision: Would they rule that Britain illegally detached Chagos from Mauritius? Would Liseby Elyse sway the judges and open the door, allowing her and her fellow Chagossians to return home—or would they remain exiled forever? Philippe Sands writes of his own journey into international law and that of the World Court in the Hague, and of the extraordinary decades-long quest of Liseby Elyse, and the people of Chagos, in their fight for justice and a free and fair return to the idyllic land of their birth.
Lost Colony
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Author : Tonio Andrade
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2013-08-04
Lost Colony written by Tonio Andrade and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-04 with History categories.
How a Chinese pirate defeated European colonialists and won Taiwan during the seventeenth century During the seventeenth century, Holland created the world's most dynamic colonial empire, outcompeting the British and capturing Spanish and Portuguese colonies. Yet, in the Sino-Dutch War—Europe's first war with China—the Dutch met their match in a colorful Chinese warlord named Koxinga. Part samurai, part pirate, he led his generals to victory over the Dutch and captured one of their largest and richest colonies—Taiwan. How did he do it? Examining the strengths and weaknesses of European and Chinese military techniques during the period, Lost Colony provides a balanced new perspective on long-held assumptions about Western power, Chinese might, and the nature of war. It has traditionally been asserted that Europeans of the era possessed more advanced science, technology, and political structures than their Eastern counterparts, but historians have recently contested this view, arguing that many parts of Asia developed on pace with Europe until 1800. While Lost Colony shows that the Dutch did indeed possess a technological edge thanks to the Renaissance fort and the broadside sailing ship, that edge was neutralized by the formidable Chinese military leadership. Thanks to a rich heritage of ancient war wisdom, Koxinga and his generals outfoxed the Dutch at every turn. Exploring a period when the military balance between Europe and China was closer than at any other point in modern history, Lost Colony reassesses an important chapter in world history and offers valuable and surprising lessons for contemporary times.
Women
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Author : Maria Mies
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Women written by Maria Mies and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Capitalism categories.
The Lost Colony And Hatteras Island
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Author : Scott Dawson
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2020-06-15
The Lost Colony And Hatteras Island written by Scott Dawson and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-15 with History categories.
New archeological discoveries may finally solve the greatest mystery of Colonial America in this history of Roanoke and Hatteras Islands. Established on what is now North Carolina’s Roanoke Island, the Roanoke Colony was intended to be England’s first permanent settlement in North America. But in 1590, the entire population disappeared without a trace. The only clue to their fate was the word “Croatoan” carved into a tree. For centuries, the legend of the Lost Colony has captivated imaginations. Now, archaeologists from the University of Bristol, working with the Croatoan Archaeological Society, have uncovered tantalizing clues to the fate of the colony. In The Lost Colony and Hatteras Island, Hatteras native and amateur archaeologist Scott Dawson compiles what scholars know about the Lost Colony along with what scholars have found beneath the soil of Hatteras.
The Last Colony
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Author : Rony Culley
language : en
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
Release Date : 2021-02-01
The Last Colony written by Rony Culley and has been published by Grosvenor House Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-01 with Fiction categories.
Scotland is the largest producer of oil and is the second largest producer of gas in Europe. It has more than an eighty per cent share of UK's North Sea assets and holds more fresh, high quality water in one of its 250,000 lochs, Loch Ness than is available in all of the lakes in England and Wales. When Scotland is compared with other smaller nations within the European community such as Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Ireland, Iceland, Rumania, Finland, Austria or Portugal, it has more natural resources within its boundaries but often has poorer economic performance, tied as it is to its larger, colonialist neighbour to the south. Scotland is Britain's last colony but as the world entered the twenty-first century, Scottish Independence was on the rise. It threatened the status quo of the Establishment, the economy and the resources available to the United Kingdom. It had to be put down...hard. MI5 were instructed to act to save the Union and retain Scotland, the last British colony, as a servile British colony shackled to Westminster.
The Lost Colony
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Author : A. G. Riddle
language : en
Publisher: Ad Astra
Release Date : 2021-03-04
The Lost Colony written by A. G. Riddle and has been published by Ad Astra this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-04 with Climatic changes categories.
Can humanity survive on a new world? The last survivors of the human race escaped a ruined Earth. Their new homeworld--Eos--seemed perfect at first. Warm. Hospitable. Safe from the grid. But everything isn't as it seems. The first colony of settlers--from the Carthage--have disappeared. Their settlement is still there, but everyone is gone. As James digs into the mystery of the lost colony, he discovers a series of spheres, buried on Eos. Are they the key to finding the lost colonists? Or are they responsible for their deaths? Just as James is unravelling the secrets of the spheres, a storm hits Jericho City. Emma, recently elected mayor, struggles to lead her people to safety while James tries to make his way home. In the middle of the chaos, a new danger emerges--a threat no one saw coming. With time running out to save the colonists, James and Emma face their hardest choice yet in the final pulse-pounding instalment in the Long Winter trilogy.
Cate Of The Lost Colony
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Author : Lisa Klein
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2010-10-12
Cate Of The Lost Colony written by Lisa Klein and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-12 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Losing her favored status with Queen Elizabeth I when her forbidden romance with Sir Walter Ralegh is discovered, Lady Catherine is banished to the doomed colony of Roanoke, where she suspects Ralegh's unfaithfulness and falls for Croatoan Native American, Manteo.
The Lost Colony
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Author : A. G. Riddle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-10
The Lost Colony written by A. G. Riddle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10 with Climatic changes categories.
Can humanity survive on a new world? The last survivors of the human race escaped a ruined Earth. Their new homeworld -- Eos -- seemed perfect at first. Warm. Hospitable. Safe from the grid. But everything isn't as it seems. The first colony of settlers have disappeared. Their settlement is still there, but everyone is gone. As Dr James Sinclair digs into the mystery of the lost colony, he discovers a series of spheres, buried on Eos. Are they the key to finding the lost colonists? Or are they responsible for their deaths? Just as James is unravelling the secrets of the spheres, a storm hits Jericho City. Emma, recently elected mayor, struggles to lead her people to safety while James tries to make his way home. In the middle of the chaos, a new danger emerges -- a threat no one saw coming. With time running out to save the colonists, James and Emma will face their hardest choice yet in the final pulse-pounding instalment in the Long Winter trilogy.