The Days Of An Empire
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The Last Thousand Days Of The British Empire
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Author : Peter Clarke
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2010-09-01
The Last Thousand Days Of The British Empire written by Peter Clarke 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 2010-09-01 with History categories.
A sweeping, brilliantly vivid history of the sudden end of the British empire and the moment when America became a world superpower. "I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." Winston Churchill's famous statement in November 1942, just as the tide of the Second World War was beginning to turn, pugnaciously affirmed his loyalty to the world-wide institution that he had served for most of his life. Britain fought and sacrificed on a worldwide scale to defeat Hitler and his allies-and won. Yet less than five years after Churchill's defiant speech, the British Empire effectively ended with Indian Independence in August 1947 and the end of the British Mandate in Palestine in May 1948. As the sun set on Britain's Empire, the age of America as world superpower dawned. How did this rapid change of fortune come about? Peter Clarke's book is the first to analyze the abrupt transition from Rule Britannia to Pax Americana. His swiftly paced narrative makes superb use of letters and diaries to provide vivid portraits of the figures around whom history pivoted: Churchill, Gandhi, Roosevelt, Stalin, Truman, and a host of lesser-known figures though whom Clarke brilliantly shows the human dimension of epochal events. The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire is a captivating work of popular history that shows how the events that followed the war reshaped the world as profoundly as the conflict itself.
Day Of Empire
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Author : Amy Chua
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2009-01-06
Day Of Empire written by Amy Chua and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-06 with Political Science categories.
In this sweeping history, bestselling author Amy Chua explains how globally dominant empires—or hyperpowers—rise and why they fall. In a series of brilliant chapter-length studies, she examines the most powerful cultures in history—from the ancient empires of Persia and China to the recent global empires of England and the United States—and reveals the reasons behind their success, as well as the roots of their ultimate demise. Chua's analysis uncovers a fascinating historical pattern: while policies of tolerance and assimilation toward conquered peoples are essential for an empire to succeed, the multicultural society that results introduces new tensions and instabilities, threatening to pull the empire apart from within. What this means for the United States' uncertain future is the subject of Chua's provocative and surprising conclusion.
The Last Days Of The Ottoman Empire
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Author : Ryan Gingeras
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2022-10-27
The Last Days Of The Ottoman Empire written by Ryan Gingeras and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-27 with History categories.
'A tour de force of accessible scholarship' The Guardian 'Impressive ... It is a complicated story that still reverberates, and Gingeras narrates it with lucid authority' New Statesman The Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. Stretching from the Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, the Empire was both a great political entity and a religious one, with the Sultan ruling over the Holy Sites and, as Caliph, the successor to Mohammed. Yet the Empire's fateful decision to support Germany and Austria-Hungary in 1914 doomed it to disaster, breaking it up into a series of European colonies and what emerged as an independent Saudi Arabia. Ryan Gingeras's superb new book explains how these epochal events came about and shows how much we still live in the shadow of decisions taken so long ago. Would all of the Empire fall to marauding Allied armies, or could something be saved? In such an ethnically and religiously entangled region, what would be the price paid to create a cohesive and independent new state? The story of the creation of modern Turkey is an extraordinary, bitter epic, brilliantly told here.
A Salon In The Last Days Of The Empire And Other Sketches By Grace Ramsay
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Author : Kathleen O'Meara
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1873
A Salon In The Last Days Of The Empire And Other Sketches By Grace Ramsay written by Kathleen O'Meara and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1873 with categories.
The Days Of The Warlords
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Author : Paul A. Blaum
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
The Days Of The Warlords written by Paul A. Blaum and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
This book deals comprehensively with the struggles of two Byzantine warlords, Bardas Sclerus and Bardas Phocas, against the legitimate Byzantine emperor Basil II. The author emphasizes that the civil wars that resulted form the context for several major world events. In addition to the conversion of Russia in 988, this lucid book describes the way that the civil wars also blunted a hitherto successful Byzantine advance against the Muslim world.
Andivius Hedulio Adventures Of A Roman Nobleman In The Days Of The Empire
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Author : Edward Lucas White
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-12-16
Andivius Hedulio Adventures Of A Roman Nobleman In The Days Of The Empire written by Edward Lucas White and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-16 with Fiction categories.
"Andivius Hedulio: Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire" by Edward Lucas White is a tale of adventures and romance of a Roman nobleman accused of treason against the Emperor Commodus. Andivius Hedulio is set in Rome during the reign of Commodus. In the book, the narrator, Andivius runs afoul of the emperor and flees. From that point he travels in disguise, tumbling from one predicament to another and changing his credentials and actions to suit the need of the moment. Acting as both an animal trainer as a slave, this book gives a full-spectrum look at the Roman empire.
The Last Empire
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Author : Serhii Plokhy
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2015-09-08
The Last Empire written by Serhii Plokhy and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-08 with History categories.
On Christmas Day, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to declare an American victory in the Cold War: earlier that day Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned as the first and last Soviet president. The enshrining of that narrative, one in which the end of the Cold War was linked to the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the triumph of democratic values over communism, took center stage in American public discourse immediately after Bush's speech and has persisted for decades -- with disastrous consequences for American standing in the world. As prize-winning historian Serhii Plokhy reveals in The Last Empire, the collapse of the Soviet Union was anything but the handiwork of the United States. On the contrary, American leaders dreaded the possibility that the Soviet Union -- weakened by infighting and economic turmoil -- might suddenly crumble, throwing all of Eurasia into chaos. Bush was firmly committed to supporting his ally and personal friend Gorbachev, and remained wary of nationalist or radical leaders such as recently elected Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Fearing what might happen to the large Soviet nuclear arsenal in the event of the union's collapse, Bush stood by Gorbachev as he resisted the growing independence movements in Ukraine, Moldova, and the Caucasus. Plokhy's detailed, authoritative account shows that it was only after the movement for independence of the republics had gained undeniable momentum on the eve of the Ukrainian vote for independence that fall that Bush finally abandoned Gorbachev to his fate. Drawing on recently declassified documents and original interviews with key participants, Plokhy presents a bold new interpretation of the Soviet Union's final months and argues that the key to the Soviet collapse was the inability of the two largest Soviet republics, Russia and Ukraine, to agree on the continuing existence of a unified state. By attributing the Soviet collapse to the impact of American actions, US policy makers overrated their own capacities in toppling and rebuilding foreign regimes. Not only was the key American role in the demise of the Soviet Union a myth, but this misplaced belief has guided -- and haunted -- American foreign policy ever since.
The Last Days Of Napoleon S Empire From Waterloo To St Helena
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Author : Henry Lachouque
language : en
Publisher: London : Allen & Unwin
Release Date : 1966
The Last Days Of Napoleon S Empire From Waterloo To St Helena written by Henry Lachouque and has been published by London : Allen & Unwin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Emperors categories.
Dangerous Days In The Roman Empire
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Author : Terry Deary
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-11-07
Dangerous Days In The Roman Empire written by Terry Deary and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-07 with Humor categories.
DANGEROUS DAYS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE is the first in a new adult series by Terry Deary, the author of the hugely bestselling Horrible Histories, popular among children for their disgusting details, gory information and sharp wit, and among adults for engaging children (and themselves) with history. The Romans have long been held up as one of the first 'civilised' societies, and yet in fact they were capable of immense cruelty. Not only that, but they made the killing of humans into a sport. The spoiled emperors were the perpetrators (and sometimes the victims) of some imaginative murders. DANGEROUS DAYS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE will include some of the violent ways to visit the Elysian Fields (i.e. death) including: animal attack in the Coliseum; being thrown from the Tarpeian Rock - 370 deserters in 214 AD alone (or if the emperor didn't like your poetry); by volcanic eruption from Vesuvius; by kicking (Nero's fatal quarrel with the Empress Poppea); from poison mushrooms (Claudius); by great fires; torturous tarring; flogging to death; boiling lead (the invention of 'kind' Emperor Constantine); or being skinned alive by invading barbarians. DANGEROUS DAYS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE looks at the back-story leading up to the victims' deaths, and in doing so gives the general reader a concise history of a frequently misunderstood era.
The History Of The Holy Roman Empire 1st Century A D 19th Century
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Author : Viscount James Bryce
language : en
Publisher: e-artnow
Release Date : 2019-12-18
The History Of The Holy Roman Empire 1st Century A D 19th Century written by Viscount James Bryce and has been published by e-artnow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-18 with History categories.
The main goal of this edition is to present the Holy Roman Empire as an institution or system, the wonderful offspring of a body of beliefs and traditions which have passed away from the world. Such a description, however, would not be intelligible without some account of the great events which accompanied the growth and decay of imperial power; and it has therefore appeared best to give the book the form rather of a narrative than of a dissertation; and to combine with an exposition of what may be called the theory of the Empire an outline of the political history of Germany, as well as some notices of the affairs of medieval Italy. The Roman Empire Before the Invasion of the Barbarians The Barbarian Invasions Restoration of the Empire in the West Empire and Policy of Charles Carolingian and Italian Emperors Theory of the Mediæval Empire The Roman Empire and the German Kingdom Saxon and Franconian Emperors Struggle of the Empire and the Papacy The Emperors in Italy: Frederick Barbarossa Imperial Titles and Pretensions Fall of the Hohenstaufen The Germanic Constitution—the Seven Electors The Empire as an International Power The City of Rome in the Middle Ages The Renaissance: Change in the Character of the Empire The Reformation and Its Effects Upon the Empire The Peace of Westphalia: Last Stage in the Decline of the Empire Fall of the Empire