Resistance At The Edge Of Empires
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The Empires Edge
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Author : Sasha Davis
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2015
The Empires Edge written by Sasha Davis and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.
Based on a decade of research, The Empires' Edge examines the tremendous damage the militarization of the Pacific has wrought and contends that the great political contest of the twenty-first century is about the choice between domination or the pursuit of a more egalitarian and cooperative future.
Handbook On Urban History Of Early India
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Author : Aloka Parasher Sen
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-10-23
Handbook On Urban History Of Early India written by Aloka Parasher Sen and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-10-23 with History categories.
This handbook addresses issues around urban growth in early India. It provides theoretical and empirical insights from the perspective of the different regions of the subcontinent using various sources. The book chapters discuss how early urban forms evolved, transformed, and survived on the subcontinent, beginning with the third millennium BCE. This volume also looks at how urban space gradually emerged in borderland areas of the subcontinent and hill areas, which throw up relevant issues and questions of how we need to review elements of what we define as 'urban'. It includes chapters on both the early historic and early medieval periods. The book provides a comprehensive view of early India's urban history, insights into metallic money and cities, the origin of cities and waterways, geospatial and remote sensing techniques to reflect on the emergence of historic settlements, and so on. The contributors have presented the dialectical relationship between the city and the country in their chapters. The book covers themes such as the Indus Valley civilization, the rise of cities in the Ganges valley, the cultural setting of the multi-ethnic and multi-lingual Kushan cities, the dynamic of the growth of cities in the ancient Tamilakam, theories of urbanization, archaeological and epigraphic material reflecting on the first cities in different regions of the subcontinent, etc. It is an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and scholars in history, architecture, and archaeology, as well as scholars working on Indic studies.
Resistance At The Edge Of Empires
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Author : Cameron A. Petrie
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Release Date : 2020-12-28
Resistance At The Edge Of Empires written by Cameron A. Petrie and has been published by Oxbow Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-28 with Social Science categories.
From 1985 to 2001, the collaborative research initiative known as the Bannu Archaeological Project conducted archaeological explorations and excavations in the Bannu region, in what was then the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan, now Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. This Project involves scholars from the Pakistan Heritage Society, the British Museum, the Institute of Archaeology (UCL), Bryn Mawr College and the University of Cambridge. This is the third in a series of volumes that present the final reports of the exploration and excavations carried out by the Bannu Archaeological Project. This volume presents the first synthesis of the archaeology of the historic periods in the Bannu region, spanning the period when the first large scale empires expanded to the borders of South Asia up until the arrival of Islam in the subcontinent at the end of the first and beginning of the second millennium BC. The Bannu region provides specific insight into early imperialism in South Asia, as throughout this protracted period, it was able to maintain a distinctive regional identity in the face of recurring phases of imperial expansion and integration.
Ancient Arms Race Antiquity S Largest Fortresses And Sasanian Military Networks Of Northern Iran
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Author : Eberhard Sauer
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Release Date : 2023-02-16
Ancient Arms Race Antiquity S Largest Fortresses And Sasanian Military Networks Of Northern Iran written by Eberhard Sauer and has been published by Oxbow Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-16 with Social Science categories.
Which ancient army boasted the largest fortifications, and how did the competitive build-up of military capabilities shape world history? Few realise that imperial Rome had a serious competitor in Late Antiquity. Late Roman legionary bases, normally no larger than 5ha, were dwarfed by Sasanian fortresses, often covering 40ha, sometimes even 125-175ha. The latter did not necessarily house permanent garrisons but sheltered large armies temporarily – perhaps numbering 10-50,000 men each. Even Roman camps and fortresses of the Early and High Empire did not reach the dimensions of their later Persian counterparts. The longest fort-lined wall of the late antique world was also Persian. Persia built up, between the fourth and sixth centuries AD, the most massive military infrastructure of any ancient or medieval Near Eastern empire – if not the ancient and medieval world. Much of the known defensive network was directed against Persia’s powerful neighbours in the north rather than the west. This may reflect differences in archaeological visibility more than troop numbers. Urban garrisons in the Romano-Persian frontier zone are much harder to identify than vast geometric compounds in marginal northern lands. Recent excavations in Iran have enabled us to precision-date two of the largest fortresses of Southwest Asia, both larger than any in the Roman world. Excavations in a Gorgan Wall fort have shed much new light on frontier life, and we have unearthed a massive bridge nearby. A sonar survey has traced the terminal of the Tammisheh Wall, now submerged under the waters of the Caspian Sea. Further work has focused on a vast city and settlements in the hinterland. Persia’s Imperial Power, our previous project, had already shed much light on the Great Wall of Gorgan, but it was our recent fieldwork that has thrown the sheer magnitude of Sasanian military infrastructure into sharp relief.
At The Edge Of Empire
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Author : Thomas M. Barrett
language : en
Publisher: Westview Press
Release Date : 1999-06-03
At The Edge Of Empire written by Thomas M. Barrett and has been published by Westview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-06-03 with History categories.
An innovative frontier history of one of the most contested regions of the Russian empire, this fresh approach to Cossack history is based on extensive archival research.
The Margins Of Empire
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Author : Janet Klein
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2011-05-31
The Margins Of Empire written by Janet Klein and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-31 with History categories.
Following the story of a Kurdish tribal militia employed by the Ottoman state, this book explores the contradictory logic of how states incorporate those they ultimately aim to suppress and how groups who seek autonomy from the state often attempt to do so through state channels.
Soldiering Through Empire
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Author : Simeon Man
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2018-02-06
Soldiering Through Empire written by Simeon Man 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 2018-02-06 with History categories.
Securing Asia for Asians : making the U.S. transnational security state -- Colonial intimacies and counterinsurgency : the Philippines, South Vietnam, and the United States -- Race war in paradise : Hawai'i's Vietnam War -- Working the subempire : Philippine and South Korean military labor in Vietnam -- Fighting "gooks" : Asian Americans and the Vietnam War -- A world becoming : the GI movement and the decolonizing Pacific
Islam And The European Empires
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Author : David Motadel
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2014-09-05
Islam And The European Empires written by David Motadel and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-05 with History categories.
At the height of the imperial age, European powers ruled over most parts of the Islamic world. The British, French, Russian, and Dutch empires each governed more Muslims than any independent Muslim state. European officials believed Islam to be of great political significance, and were quite cautious when it came to matters of the religious life of their Muslim subjects. In the colonies, they regularly employed Islamic religious leaders and institutions to bolster imperial rule. At the same time, the European presence in Muslim lands was confronted by religious resistance movements and Islamic insurgency. Across the globe, from the West African savanna to the shores of Southeast Asia, Muslim rebels called for holy war against non-Muslim intruders. Islam and the European Empires presents the first comparative account of the engagement of all major European empires with Islam. Bringing together fifteen of the world's leading scholars in the field, the volume explores a wide array of themes, ranging from the accommodation of Islam under imperial rule to Islamic anti-colonial resistance. A truly global history of empire, the volume makes a major contribution not only to our knowledge of the intersection of Islam and imperialism, but also more generally to our understanding of religion and power in the modern world.
History Of The Caucasus
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Author : Christoph Baumer
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-10-05
History Of The Caucasus written by Christoph Baumer and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-05 with History categories.
In the Shadow of Great Powers is the second volume of Christoph Baumer's History of the Caucasus. It covers the period from the Seljuk domination of the Southern Caucasus around 1050 CE to the present day. After the Kingdom of Georgia's golden age of independent power and cultural blossoming in the 12th and early 13th centuries, the Caucasus was overrun by the Mongols and soon disintegrated into innumerable smaller kingdoms, principalities and khanates. At the same time, an Armenian kingdom in exile maintained a precarious independence in Cilicia, today's southern Turkey, by applying a three-way diplomatic policy balanced between the Mongol Il-Khanate, the Crusader states and, to a lesser degree, the Mameluke Empire. Then followed four centuries during which the highly fragmented polities of the North and South Caucasus became political pawns of the regional great powers, above all the Ottomans, Iran and Russia. In the wake of World War I the South Caucasus enjoyed a short-lived independence whereas its northern neighbours were engulfed by the Russian civil wars. But by 1921 the Soviet Union had re-established Russian dominance over the whole region and, from a Western perspective, the region 'disappeared' behind the Iron Curtain. Nevertheless, the Caucasian nations kept their pronounced identities even under Soviet rule, giving rise at the dissolution of the Soviet Union to a number of internecine conflicts. Whereas the Russian Federation managed to maintain its supremacy over the North Caucasus – albeit at the cost of bloody wars and insurrections – Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia succeeded in more or less gaining control over their destiny. Of these three republics, only Azerbaijan secured a wide-ranging independence thanks to its fossil fuel resources. Following Russian interference, Georgia lost control over two of its provinces while Armenia remains dependent on Russian support in the face of its notoriously antagonistic relations with neighbouring Azerbaijan and Turkey over the unresolved issue of Karabakh. In the Shadow of Great Powers includes some 200 full-colour images and maps which further bring the turbulent history of this region to light.
How To Hide An Empire
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Author : Daniel Immerwahr
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2019-02-19
How To Hide An Empire written by Daniel Immerwahr and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-19 with History categories.
Named one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago Tribune A Publishers Weekly best book of 2019 | A 2019 NPR Staff Pick A pathbreaking history of the United States’ overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an “empire,” exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories—the islands, atolls, and archipelagos—this country has governed and inhabited? In How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light. We travel to the Guano Islands, where prospectors collected one of the nineteenth century’s most valuable commodities, and the Philippines, site of the most destructive event on U.S. soil. In Puerto Rico, Immerwahr shows how U.S. doctors conducted grisly experiments they would never have conducted on the mainland and charts the emergence of independence fighters who would shoot up the U.S. Congress. In the years after World War II, Immerwahr notes, the United States moved away from colonialism. Instead, it put innovations in electronics, transportation, and culture to use, devising a new sort of influence that did not require the control of colonies. Rich with absorbing vignettes, full of surprises, and driven by an original conception of what empire and globalization mean today, How to Hide an Empire is a major and compulsively readable work of history.