In this course, London Metropolitan University British and Commonwealty history professor Denis Judd will examine the growth and development of the largest empire in world history--the British Empire--beginning with the late 15th-...
Imperialism
- Author:Judd, DenisSummary:
- Author:Turtledove, HarrySummary:
War is brewing yet again as the U.S.A. struggles to occupy Canada, and the C.S.A. begins forcing blacks into concentration camps.
- Author:Johnson, ChalmersSummary:
Recalling the classic warnings against militarism, Johnson explores the trend of militarism that is bankrupting the United States and creating conditions for a new century of virulent blowback.
- Author:Frankopan, PeterSummary:
From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and advent of Christianity and Islam, right up to Western imperialism and the great wars of the twentieth century, this epic, magisterial work...
- Author:Sullivan, Michael J.Summary:
The birth of the Nyphron Empire has brought war to Melengar. To save her kingdom, Princess Arista runs a desperate gamble when she defies her brother and hires Royce and Hadrian to perform a dangerous mission behind enemy lines.
- Author:Lenz, LawrenceSummary:
Through its military policy and foreign policy, America attained superpower status in a remarkably short period of time. Nations survive based on their ability to provide internal order and external defense. Unfortunately, foreign...
- Author:Pearson, Monte L.Summary:
Many articles in the media examine contemporary American issues and compare them to the problems that led to the fall of the Roman Empire. But before the rise of the Empire, a time of one-man rule and limited freedoms, there was the...
- Author:Said, Edward W.Summary:
- Author:Schneer, JonathanSummary:
- Author:Tharoor, ShashiSummary:
In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from...
- Author:Anderson, Mark CronlundSummary:
Noam Chomsky and George W. Bush seldom agree, but they both argued that 9/11 stood alone in American history. Although the use of airplanes as weapons of mass destruction was new, Mark Anderson maintains that the response to the attack...
- Author:Chomsky, NoamSummary:
- Author:Conrad, JosephSummary:
On board the British ship the NELLIE, Marlow told a group of men his story... He told them of his strange, eventful, yet horrific journey into Africa as an agent for the Company, which traded in ivory. He had witnessed the terrible...
- Author:Helprin, MarkSummary:
Freddy is the bright but aloof Prince of Wales. Fredericka is his blonde, beautiful and beloved wife. When they stumble into a public relations nightmare with no easy solution, they must make amends by serving an unusual penance....
- Author:DESJARDINS, Louis GeorgesSummary:
Mr. Desjardins was driven to write this work to refute statements uttered by the nationalist Henri Bourassa, which the former feared painted all Quebecers with the same unpatriotic brush in respect to their contribution to the Great War...
- Author:Laxer, James, Springer, JaneSummary:
"[The Groundwork Guides] are excellent books, mandatory for school libraries and the increasing body of young people prepared to take ownership of the situations and problems previous generations have left them." -- Globe and Mail. The...
- Author:Gordon, Todd, Webber, Jeffery R.Summary:
Rooted in thousands of pages of Access to Information documents and dozens of interviews carried out throughout Latin America, Blood of Extraction examines the increasing presence of Canadian mining companies in Latin America and the...
- Author:Waugh, EvelynSummary:
- Author:Garrison, JamesSummary:
In America as Empire, Jim Garrison urges us to face up to the complexities and responsibilities inherent in the indisputable fact that America is now the world's single preeminent power. "America," Garrison writes, "has become what it...
- Author:Judd, DenisSummary:
This course will examine the development of the British Empire from the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, via its greatest terretorial extent in 1919 to its eventual decline and end in the years after World War II, and its final...