Empire And Underworld
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Empire And Underworld
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Author : Miranda Frances Spieler
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2012-01-16
Empire And Underworld written by Miranda Frances Spieler and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-16 with History categories.
In the century after the French Revolution, the South American outpost of Guiana became a depository for exiles--outcasts of the new French citizenry--and an experimental space for the exercise of new kinds of power and violence against marginal groups. Miranda Spieler chronicles the encounter between colonial officials, planters, and others, ranging from deported political enemies to convicts, ex-convicts, vagabonds, freed slaves, non-European immigrants, and Maroons (descendants of fugitive slaves in the forest). She finds that at a time when France was advocating the revolutionary principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity, Guiana's exiles were stripped of their legal identities and unmade by law, becoming nonpersons living in limbo. The French Revolution invented the notion of the citizen, but as Spieler shows, it also invented the noncitizen--the person whose rights were nonexistent. Empire and Underworld discovers in Guiana's wilderness a haunting prehistory of current moral dilemmas surrounding detainees of indeterminate legal status. Pairing the history of France with that of its underworld and challenging some of the century's most influential theorists from Hannah Arendt to Michel Foucault, Spieler demonstrates how rights of the modern world can mutate into an apparatus of human deprivation.
Empire And Underworld
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Author : Miranda Frances Spieler
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2012-01-01
Empire And Underworld written by Miranda Frances Spieler and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with History categories.
The French Revolution invented the notion of the citizen, but it also invented the noncitizen—the person whose rights were nonexistent. The South American outpost of Guiana became a depository for these outcasts of the new French citizenry, and an experimental space for the exercise of new kinds of power and violence against marginal groups.
The Underworld Empire
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Author : James A. Grosse
language : en
Publisher: LifeRich Publishing
Release Date : 2021-09-22
The Underworld Empire written by James A. Grosse and has been published by LifeRich Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-22 with Fiction categories.
The Underworld Empire is an action packed suspense fiction novel. James G. Ross is an teenager who made a mistake of stealing from the Italian Mob in Pittsburgh PA. Now they are searching to eliminate him and his friends. James has vowed to protect his friends, he is left with the realization that he would have to become as cunning and ruthless as them to survive. He infiltrated their organization and stategically set his plans in motion. The Mobs highest ranking assassian attemped to kill James but hasitated for one second which cost him his life! James had to gear-up and go to war. He destroyed their private club, killed them and took their money, guns and product. The New York Italian Mob was on their way!
Imperial Underworld
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Author : Kirsten McKenzie
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-01-14
Imperial Underworld written by Kirsten McKenzie and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-14 with History categories.
This book charts the political exposés of an escaped convict-turned-activist and sheds new light on nineteenth-century British imperial reform.
Of Empire And Illusion
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Author : JR Hazard
language : en
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Release Date : 2021-10-22
Of Empire And Illusion written by JR Hazard and has been published by Page Publishing Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-22 with Fiction categories.
At the outset of 1973, Alphonse Giordano is the unquestioned king of the New York underworld, supported by a secret society of enforcers, earners, and influencers who manipulate the city conditions to their own ends. Foremost on their mind is the construction of a Manhattan high-rise, a project they hope can provide them with a once-in-a-lifetime score, if only the right buttons are pressed. And press them Al does, no matter the risk or cost of human life. However, his actions draw unwanted attention from both sides of the law until the friction becomes too much. Something must give. And the city will never be the same. Uncover the truth of the story along with V, a struggling writer determined to sift through the ashes, no matter the implications.
Underworld U S A
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Author : Joseph F Dinneen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-10-01
Underworld U S A written by Joseph F Dinneen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-01 with categories.
The Empire S Warbands
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Author : Clay Vagrant
language : en
Publisher: War of the Dragon Throne
Release Date : 2023-07-27
The Empire S Warbands written by Clay Vagrant and has been published by War of the Dragon Throne this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-27 with categories.
BOOK 3 OF THE WAR OF THE DRAGON THRONE SERIES THE IMPERIAL ARMY COLLIDES WITH THE MARTIAL ARTS UNDERWORLD The Ming Empire scrambles to prepare for war as the resurgent clans of Jianhgu, the martial arts underworld, form alliances and makes maneuvers to overthrow and destabilize the dynasty. To set the stage for the invasion of the nonhuman foreigners called Terukk, the martial underworld amasses an army of its own and utilizes ancient dark arts to counter the might of the Ming Imperial Army. The legendary swordsman and knight-errant, Sun Xin, embarks on another harrowing operation with his motley team into the heart of the underworld to discover their enemies' plans. They must buy the Ming Empire enough time to muster her defenses and forge its own alliances in anticipation of a massive Terukk invasion. Meanwhile, Captain Shao Lian of the Jinyiwei Imperial Assassins and Secret Police returns to court and reveals to the emperor his discoveries of world-shattering prehistorical secrets that could change the tide of war before it could even begin. Legendary factions, powerful armies, and bitter rivals will wage all-out war for the preservation of civilization, or for the creation of a new world through the restoration of the primeval one.
Empire Of Sin
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Author : Gary Krist
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2014-10-28
Empire Of Sin written by Gary Krist and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-28 with History categories.
From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans’ other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans’ thirty-years war against itself, pitting the city’s elite “better half” against its powerful and long-entrenched underworld of vice, perversity, and crime. This early-20th-century battle centers on one man: Tom Anderson, the undisputed czar of the city's Storyville vice district, who fights desperately to keep his empire intact as it faces onslaughts from all sides. Surrounding him are the stories of flamboyant prostitutes, crusading moral reformers, dissolute jazzmen, ruthless Mafiosi, venal politicians, and one extremely violent serial killer, all battling for primacy in a wild and wicked city unlike any other in the world.
End Of Empires
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Author : Toby Frost
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-08
End Of Empires written by Toby Frost and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08 with Fiction categories.
Captain Isambard Smith and his crew are back for a fifth adventure fighting alien foe in the 25th-century British Space Empire The lemming men of Yullia are rushing headlong towards the cliffs of destiny, and they intend to take the British Space Empire with them. When moral fiber clashes with lemming spirit, only one thing is certain—surrender is no longer an option. In the back-streets of Ravnavar, greatest planet of the Space Empire, revolution stirs. Someone will have to go deep undercover, take on the robot underworld, and reveal what lies behind the mysterious Popular Front. Worst of all, Major Wainscott—commando and nudist—has gone renegade in the most dangerous jungle in the galaxy. Someone will have to travel upriver, terminate Wainscott's command, and make him put some trousers on. That someone is Isambard Smith. Once more, Smith and his crew must leap into action, civilize the galaxy, and force legions of angry rodents to stop their nonsense at once. Smith is destined to topple a mighty empire. The only question is—whose empire will it be?
A Cultural History Of Western Empires In The Age Of Empire
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Author : Kirsten McKenzie
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Release Date : 2022-12-15
A Cultural History Of Western Empires In The Age Of Empire written by Kirsten McKenzie and has been published by Bloomsbury Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-15 with Civilization, Western categories.
Between 1800 and 1920, the territory and influence claimed by Western empires came to cover a larger portion of the globe than at any time before or since. Why and how did this happen? What were the consequences of this unprecedented scramble for dominion? What methods have historians used to understand the increasingly large and structurally complex Western empires that emerged across the long 19th century?In this fifth volume, A Cultural History of Western Empires in the Age of Empire, we trace these questions across a period bookended by two devastating global wars. The forces that enabled unparalleled Western expansion were likewise violent. Often no less traumatically, the phenomenon was also one of cultural exchange and negotiated identities in which both colonized and colonizer were repeatedly made and remade. As cultural historians we locate the power struggles of empire as much in identity and ways of life as in the movement of armies or the signing of treaties. New technologies of communication, transport and warfare brought an 'Age of Empire' into existence for the West. But it was equally grounded in new ways of thinking about human difference and new beliefs about the state's power to intervene in the most intimate domains of human behavior.