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The Empire Project
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Author : John Darwin
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-09-24
The Empire Project written by John Darwin 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 2009-09-24 with History categories.
The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the rise and fall of that great imperial project. The British Empire, he argues, was much more than a group of colonies ruled over by a scattering of British expatriates until eventual independence. It was, above all, a global phenomenon. Its power derived rather less from the assertion of imperial authority than from the fusing together of three different kinds of empire: the settler empire of the 'white dominions'; the commercial empire of the City of London; and 'Greater India' which contributed markets, manpower and military muscle. This unprecedented history charts how this intricate imperial web was first strengthened, then weakened and finally severed on the rollercoaster of global economic, political and geostrategic upheaval on which it rode from beginning to end.
The Empire Project Electronic Resource
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Author : John Darwin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
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Unfinished Empire
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Author : John Darwin
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2012-09-06
Unfinished Empire written by John Darwin and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-06 with History categories.
A both controversial and comprehensive historical analysis of how the British Empire worked, from Wolfson Prize-winning author and historian John Darwin The British Empire shaped the world in countless ways: repopulating continents, carving out nations, imposing its own language, technology and values. For perhaps two centuries its expansion and final collapse were the single largest determinant of historical events, and it remains surrounded by myth, misconception and controversy today. John Darwin's provocative and richly enjoyable book shows how diverse, contradictory and in many ways chaotic the British Empire really was, controlled by interests that were often at loggerheads, and as much driven on by others' weaknesses as by its own strength.
Dismantling The Empire
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Author : Chalmers Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Release Date : 2010-08-17
Dismantling The Empire written by Chalmers Johnson and has been published by Metropolitan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-17 with Political Science categories.
The author of the bestselling Blowback Trilogy reflects on America's waning power in a masterful collection of essays In his prophetic book Blowback, published before 9/11, Chalmers Johnson warned that our secret operations in Iraq and elsewhere around the globe would exact a price at home. Now, in a brilliant series of essays written over the last three years, Johnson measures that price and the resulting dangers America faces. Our reliance on Pentagon economics, a global empire of bases, and war without end is, he declares, nothing short of "a suicide option." Dismantling the Empire explores the subjects for which Johnson is now famous, from the origins of blowback to Barack Obama's Afghanistan conundrum, including our inept spies, our bad behavior in other countries, our ill-fought wars, and our capitulation to a military that has taken ever more control of the federal budget. There is, he proposes, only one way out: President Obama must begin to dismantle the empire before the Pentagon dismantles the American Dream. If we do not learn from the fates of past empires, he suggests, our decline and fall are foreordained. This is Johnson at his best: delivering both a warning and an urgent prescription for a remedy.
A People S History Of American Empire
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Author : Howard Zinn
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-02-07
A People S History Of American Empire written by Howard Zinn and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-07 with History categories.
Since its landmark publication in 1980, the original history has sold more than 1.7 million copies. More than a successful book, it triggered a revolution in the way history is told, displacing the official versions with their emphasis on great men in high places to chronicle events as they were lived, from the bottom up. Historians Howard Zinn and Paul Buhle and cartoonist Mike Konopacki have collaborated to retell, in vibrant graphic form, a most immediate and relevant chapter of A People's History of American Empire: the story of America's ever-growing role on the world stage. Narrated by Zinn, this version opens with the events of 9/11 and then tracks back to explore the cycles of US expansionism from Wounded Knee to Iraq, while taking in World War I, Central America, Vietnam, and the Iranian revolution. The book also follows the story of Zinn, the son of poor Jewish immigrants, from his childhood in the Brooklyn slums to his role as one of America's leading historians. Shifting from world-shattering events to one family's small revolutions, this is a classic ground-level history of America in a dazzling new form.
Imperial Encore
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Author : Caroline Ritter
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2021-01-26
Imperial Encore written by Caroline Ritter 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 2021-01-26 with History categories.
In the 1930s, British colonial officials introduced drama performances, broadcasting services, and publication bureaus into Africa under the rubric of colonial development. They used theater, radio, and mass-produced books to spread British values and the English language across the continent. This project proved remarkably resilient: well after the end of Britain’s imperial rule, many of its cultural institutions remained in place. Through the 1960s and 1970s, African audiences continued to attend Shakespeare performances and listen to the BBC, while African governments adopted English-language textbooks produced by metropolitan publishing houses. Imperial Encore traces British drama, broadcasting, and publishing in Africa between the 1930s and the 1980s—the half century spanning the end of British colonial rule and the outset of African national rule. Caroline Ritter shows how three major cultural institutions—the British Council, the BBC, and Oxford University Press—integrated their work with British imperial aims, and continued this project well after the end of formal British rule. Tracing these institutions and the media they produced through the tumultuous period of decolonization and its aftermath, Ritter offers the first account of the global footprint of British cultural imperialism.
A Project Of Empire
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Author : Joseph Shield Nicholson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1909
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The Rise And Fall Of The British Empire
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Author : Lawrence James
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 1997-09-15
The Rise And Fall Of The British Empire written by Lawrence James and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-09-15 with History categories.
Covers the history of the British Empire from 1600 to the present day, and its transition from ruler of half the world to its current status of isolated, economically fragile island.
A Project Of Empire
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Author : Joseph Shield Nicholson
language : en
Publisher: London, Macmillan
Release Date : 1909
A Project Of Empire written by Joseph Shield Nicholson and has been published by London, Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1909 with Great Britain categories.
Plumas National Forest N F Empire Vegetation Management Project
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Plumas National Forest N F Empire Vegetation Management Project written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with categories.