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Ghosts Of Empire

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Author : Kwasi Kwarteng
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-01-01

Ghosts Of Empire written by Kwasi Kwarteng and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with Decolonization categories.

This fascinating book shows how the later years of the British Empire were characterised by accidental oversights, irresponsible opportunism and uncertain pragmatism.

Ghost Empire

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Author : Richard Fidler
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Release Date : 2016-08-01

Ghost Empire written by Richard Fidler and has been published by HarperCollins Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-01 with History categories.

'A brilliant reconstruction of the saga of power, glory, invasion and decay that is the one-thousand year story of Constantinople. A truly marvellous book.' - Simon Winchester In 2014, Richard Fidler and his son Joe made a journey to Istanbul. Fired by Richard's passion for the rich history of the dazzling Byzantine Empire - centred around the legendary Constantinople - we are swept into some of the most extraordinary tales in history. The clash of civilisations, the fall of empires, the rise of Christianity, revenge, lust, murder. Turbulent stories from the past are brought vividly to life at the same time as a father navigates the unfolding changes in his relationship with his son. GHOST EMPIRE is a revelation: a beautifully written ode to a lost civilization, and a warmly observed father-son adventure far from home.

Ghosts Of Empire

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Author : Kwasi Kwarteng
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2011-08-15

Ghosts Of Empire written by Kwasi Kwarteng and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-15 with History categories.

The ghosts of the British Empire continue to haunt today's international scene and many of the problems faced by the Empire have still not been resolved. In Iraq, Kashmir, Burma, Sudan, Nigeria and Hong Kong, new difficulties, resulting from British imperialism, have arisen and continue to baffle politicians and diplomats. This powerful book addresses the realities of the British Empire from its inception to its demise, skewering fantasies of its glory and cataloguing both the inadequacies of its ideals and the short-termism of its actions.

Ghost On The Throne

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Author : James Romm
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-10-11

Ghost On The Throne written by James Romm and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-11 with History categories.

Alexander the Great, perhaps the most commanding leader in history, united his empire and his army by the titanic force of his will. His death at the age of thirty-two spelled the end of that unity. The story of Alexander’s conquest of the Persian empire is known to many readers, but the dramatic and consequential saga of the empire’s collapse remains virtually untold. It is a tale of loss that begins with the greatest loss of all, the death of the Macedonian king who had held the empire together. With his demise, it was as if the sun had disappeared from the solar system, as if planets and moons began to spin crazily in new directions, crashing into one another with unimaginable force. Alexander bequeathed his power, legend has it, “to the strongest,” leaving behind a mentally damaged half brother and a posthumously born son as his only heirs. In a strange compromise, both figures—Philip III and Alexander IV—were elevated to the kingship, quickly becoming prizes, pawns, fought over by a half-dozen Macedonian generals. Each successor could confer legitimacy on whichever general controlled him. At the book’s center is the monarch’s most vigorous defender; Alexander’s former Greek secretary, now transformed into a general himself. He was a man both fascinating and entertaining, a man full of tricks and connivances, like the enthroned ghost of Alexander that gives the book its title, and becomes the determining factor in the precarious fortunes of the royal family. James Romm, brilliant classicist and storyteller, tells the galvanizing saga of the men who followed Alexander and found themselves incapable of preserving his empire. The result was the undoing of a world, formerly united in a single empire, now ripped apart into a nightmare of warring nation-states struggling for domination, the template of our own times.

Ghost Empire

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Author : Philip Marchand
language : en
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Release Date : 2009-02-24

Ghost Empire written by Philip Marchand and has been published by McClelland & Stewart this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-24 with History categories.

History, travelogue, and memoir combine in this illuminating journey in the footsteps of the great explorer La Salle. This is the extraordinary account of a personal and historical quest in which Philip Marchand retraces the seventeenth-century explorations of La Salle while he searches in the present day for vestiges of France’s lost North American legacy. After he explored the Great Lakes and the entire Mississippi, La Salle was murdered by his own men when he led them on a disastrous mission to Texas. The vast land beyond Quebec that he claimed for France could have become — but for a few twists of history — an alternative North America: a French-speaking, Catholic empire in which native peoples would have played a prominent role. Marchand probes the intriguingly flawed character of La Salle and recounts the astonishing history of the Jesuit missionaries, coureurs de bois, fur traders, and soldiers who followed on his heels, and of the Indian nations with whom they came into contact. He also reports on the survivals of this diaspora from late-night bars, battle reenactments, parish churches, and wayside restaurants from Montreal to Venice, Louisiana. And throughout he draws on memories of his own Catholic childhood in Massachusetts to interpret the lingering attitudes, fears, hopes, and iconography of a people who, more deeply than most, feel the burdens and the ironies of history.

Ghost Of An Empire

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Author : Richard Flunker
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-05-08

Ghost Of An Empire written by Richard Flunker and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-08 with categories.

A civil war has come to the Dominion on the wings of the unique child: Deespa. Heralded as Queen Magyo the Reborn, she is no longer a child. She has fully embraced her unique nature while keeping it a mystery. Within herself she has discovered power and has used it to bring about the end to the corrupt Empire of Man. While thousands rally to her cause, the battle was taken its course towards the capital system of Coran, where the new Queen plans to bring her message of freedom and equality to the slaves of the Dominion. Unbeknownst to all, she is trying to save two worlds, one made of flesh, the other of silicone. But the conquest of Coran reveals a far deeper evil, and enemy beyond time and comprehension, intent on correcting what it sees as the imperfection caused by the people that traveled out from Earth. This enemy will stretch Deespa's powers beyond what she even thought possible, and she will need the help of unlikely allies in order to prevent the extermination of mankind. The events of Ghost of an Empire take place alongside the events of The Lost Tribe.

Ghosts Of Empire

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Author : Kwasi Kwarteng
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2011

This fascinating book shows how the later years of the British Empire were characterised by accidental oversights, irresponsible opportunism and uncertain pragmatism

The Empire S Ghost

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Author : Isabelle Steiger
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2017-05-16

The Empire S Ghost written by Isabelle Steiger and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-16 with Fiction categories.

The empire of Elesthene once spanned a continent, but its rise heralded the death of magic. It tore itself apart from within, leaving behind a patchwork of kingdoms struggling to rebuild. But when a new dictator, the ambitious and enigmatic Imperator Elgar, seizes power in the old capital and seeks to recreate the lost empire anew, the other kingdoms have little hope of stopping him. Prince Kelken of Reglay finds himself at odds with his father at his country’s darkest hour; the marquise of Esthrades is unmatched in politics and strategy, but she sits at a staggering military disadvantage. And Issamira, the most powerful of the free countries, has shut itself off from the conflict, thrown into confusion by the disappearance of its crown prince and the ensuing struggle for succession. Everything seems aligned in Elgar’s favor, but when he presses a band of insignificant but skilled alley-dwellers into his service for a mission of the greatest secrecy, they find an unexpected opportunity to alter the balance of power in the war. Through their actions and those of the remaining royals, they may uncover not just a way to defeat Elgar, but also a deeper truth about their world’s lost history. Set in a fantastical world that is both welcomingly familiar and excitingly unique, The Empire's Ghost shows nobles and commoners alike struggling to survive and maintain power in an ever changing, chaotic world.

Black Ghost Of Empire

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Author : Kris Manjapra
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2022-04-19

Black Ghost Of Empire written by Kris Manjapra and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-19 with History categories.

If the 1619 Project illuminated the ways in which life in the United States has been shaped by the existence of slavery, this “historical, literary masterpiece” (Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy) focuses on emancipation and how its afterlife further codified the racial caste system—instead of obliterating it. To understand why the shadow of slavery still haunts us today, we must look closely at the way it ended. Between the 1770s and 1880s, emancipation processes took off across the Atlantic world. But far from ushering in a new age of human rights and universal freedoms, these emancipations further codified the racial caste systems they claimed to disrupt. In this paradigm-altering book, acclaimed historian and professor Kris Manjapra identifies five types of emancipations across the globe and reveals that their perceived failures were not failures at all, but the predictable outcomes of policies designed first and foremost to preserve the status quo of racial oppression. In the process, Manjapra shows how, amidst this unfinished history, grassroots Black organizers and activists have become custodians of collective recovery and remedy; not only for our present, but also for our relationship with the past. Black Ghost of Empire will rewire readers’ understanding of the world in which we live. Timely, lucid, and crucial to our understanding of contemporary society, this book shines a light into the gap between the idea of slavery’s end and the reality of its continuation—exposing to whom a debt was paid and to whom a debt is owed.

Haunted New York

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Author : Cheri Farnsworth
language : en
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Release Date : 2005-08-30

Haunted New York written by Cheri Farnsworth and has been published by Stackpole Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-30 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.

• More than 60 frightening tales • Covers all regions of the state An entertaining look at supernatural phenomena in New York, including the ghost of a British soldier at Fort Ontario, Champ the Lake Champlain monster, the haunted castle of Captain Beardslee, spirits in Manhattan's oldest house, the alien abduction at the Brooklyn Bridge, and many more.

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