Crises Of Empire
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Crises Of Empire
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Author : Martin Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-04-23
Crises Of Empire written by Martin Thomas and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-23 with History categories.
Crises of Empire offers a comprehensive and uniquely comparative analysis of the history of decolonization in the British, French and Dutch empires. By comparing the processes of decolonization across three of the major modern empires, from the aftermath of the First World War to the late 20th century, the authors are able to analyse decolonization as a long-term process. They explore significant changes to the international system, shifting popular attitudes to colonialism and the economics of empire. This new edition incorporates the latest developments in the historiography, as well as: - Increased coverage of the Belgian and Portuguese empires - New introductions to each of the three main parts, offering some background and context to British, French and Dutch decolonization - More coverage of cultural aspects of decolonization, exploring empire 'from below' This new edition of Crises of Empire is essential reading for all students of imperial history and decolonization. In particular, it will be welcomed by those who are interested in taking a comparative approach, putting the history of decolonization into a pan-European framework.
An Honorable Defense
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Author : David Drake
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
An Honorable Defense written by David Drake and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Fiction categories.
The first Crisis of Empire begins with the death of the Emperor, leaving a child as his successor. Will the leaders of the empire rally behind the child-Emperor? If they do not, interstellar civilization will once again dissolve into civil war and slide into another long night of barbarism.
Crisis Of Empire
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Author : Jeremy Black
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2008-11-11
Crisis Of Empire written by Jeremy Black and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-11 with History categories.
Britain and the USA have helped define much of world history in recent centuries, and the relationship between the two is crucial to this history. This book focuses on a key period in their relationship that moulded the character of the British Empire, the USA and the way the two have interacted since. The rise and crises of empires will always fascinate the observer because in their fate we see much of human history. Certainly the struggle for empire in the 18th Century was key to the fate of North America. British victory followed by the American Revolution helped to define the modern world. The European nations of Britain, France and Spain were eager for predominance and the trappings of trade, land and prestige. Within North America, there were the local agents of these powers and their subjects, who in turn held their own interests and views; whilst the Native Americans were more than simply the passive victims of European expansion. This fascinating and complex story is told by Black with narrative drive and scholarly acumen.
Crisis Of Empire
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Author : Phil Booth
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2017-10-26
Crisis Of Empire written by Phil Booth and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-26 with History categories.
"This book focuses on the attempts of three seventh-century Palestinian intellectuals--John Moschos, Sophronius of Jerusalem, and Maximus the Confessor--to determine the Church's power and place during a period of profound crisis, as the eastern Roman empire suffered serious reversals in the face of Persian and then Islamic expansion. Through their stories, Booth documents nothing less than a profound change in the very nature of the self-perception of a religious society. Although focused on the first half of the seventh century, this book throws bright light both behind itself--on the nature of the role of the holy man in late antiquity--and in front of itself--on the nature of the Byzantine Orthodoxy that would emerge in the middle ages, and which is still central to the churches of Greece and Eastern Europe"--
The Crisis Of The Twenty First Century
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Author : Russell Foster
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
The Crisis Of The Twenty First Century written by Russell Foster and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Political Science categories.
Empire is one of the oldest forms of political organisation and has dominated societies in all parts of the world. Yet, despite the emergence of nation-states in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the apparent end of empire with the breakup of European colonial regimes and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century, empire remains powerful in the modern world. The EUs accession policies, the United States War on Terror, Chinas economic developments in Africa, among others, draw accusations of imperial agendas. Empire is no stranger to crisis but, in recent years, the effects of global austerity have forced states, both powerful and weak, to adapt, with varying degrees of success and failure. The confusions, contradictions, and contestations which emerge from imperial crisis point to a vital question how is Austerity changing Empire and how will this shape tomorrows world?This book was published as a special issue of Global Discourse.
Britain S Crisis Of Empire
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Author : Rajani Palme Dutt
language : en
Publisher: London : Lawrence & Wishart
Release Date : 1950
Britain S Crisis Of Empire written by Rajani Palme Dutt and has been published by London : Lawrence & Wishart this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1950 with History categories.
Crisis In An Atlantic Empire
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Author : Barbara H. Stein
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2014-12-30
Crisis In An Atlantic Empire written by Barbara H. Stein and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-30 with Business & Economics categories.
The capstone of a research endeavor begun by Barbara Stein and Stanley Stein nearly sixty years ago, this volume concludes their masterful tetralogy on Spanish economic and Atlantic history. With a compelling narrative that weaves together story and thesis and brings to life immense archival research and empirical data, Crisis in an Atlantic Empire is a finely grained historical tour of the period covering 1808 to 1810, which is often called “the age of revolutions.” The study examines an accumulation of countervailing elements in a spasm of imperial crisis, as Spain and its major colony New Spain struggled to preserve traditional structures of exchange—Spain's transatlantic trade system—with Caribbean ports at Veracruz and Havana in wartime after 1804. Rooted in the struggle between businessmen seeking to expand their economic reach and the ruling class seeking to maintain its hegemonic control, the crisis sheds light on the contest between free trade and monopoly trade and the politics of preservation among an enduring and influential interest group: merchants. Reflecting the authors’ masterful use of archival sources and their magisterial knowledge of the era’s complex metropolitan and colonial institutions, this volume is the capstone of a research endeavor spanning nearly sixty years.
Crises And The Roman Empire
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Author : Impact of Empire (Organització). Workshop
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2007
Crises And The Roman Empire written by Impact of Empire (Organització). Workshop and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
This volume presents the proceedings of the seventh workshop of the international thematic network Impact of Empire, which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire. It focuses on the impact that crises had on the development and functioning of the Roman Empire from the Republic to Late Imperial times.
The Guardians
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Author : Susan Pedersen
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-04-29
The Guardians written by Susan Pedersen and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-29 with History categories.
Winner of the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize At the end of the First World War, the Paris Peace Conference saw a battle over the future of empire. The victorious allied powers wanted to annex the Ottoman territories and German colonies they had occupied; Woodrow Wilson and a groundswell of anti-imperialist activism stood in their way. France, Belgium, Japan and the British dominions reluctantly agreed to an Anglo-American proposal to hold and administer those allied conquests under "mandate" from the new League of Nations. In the end, fourteen mandated territories were set up across the Middle East, Africa and the Pacific. Against all odds, these disparate and far-flung territories became the site and the vehicle of global transformation. In this masterful history of the mandates system, Susan Pedersen illuminates the role the League of Nations played in creating the modern world. Tracing the system from its creation in 1920 until its demise in 1939, Pedersen examines its workings from the realm of international diplomacy; the viewpoints of the League's experts and officials; and the arena of local struggles within the territories themselves. Featuring a cast of larger-than-life figures, including Lord Lugard, King Faisal, Chaim Weizmann and Ralph Bunche, the narrative sweeps across the globe-from windswept scrublands along the Orange River to famine-blighted hilltops in Rwanda to Damascus under French bombardment-but always returns to Switzerland and the sometimes vicious battles over ideas of civilization, independence, economic relations, and sovereignty in the Geneva headquarters. As Pedersen shows, although the architects and officials of the mandates system always sought to uphold imperial authority, colonial nationalists, German revisionists, African-American intellectuals and others were able to use the platform Geneva offered to challenge their claims. Amid this cacophony, imperial statesmen began exploring new means - client states, economic concessions - of securing Western hegemony. In the end, the mandate system helped to create the world in which we now live. A riveting work of global history, The Guardians enables us to look back at the League with new eyes, and in doing so, appreciate how complex, multivalent, and consequential this first great experiment in internationalism really was.
The British Army And The Crisis Of Empire 1918 22
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Author : Keith Jeffery
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1984
The British Army And The Crisis Of Empire 1918 22 written by Keith Jeffery and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Great Britain categories.
The empire at war -- Weakness of the home base -- Imperial problems old and new -- Searching for imperial manpower -- The Irish ulcer -- India -- The defence of Suez -- Persia and Mesopotamia -- Conclusion.