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
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Author:Judd, DenisSummary: - 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...
- Author:Huang, S. L.Summary:
Lin Chong is an expert arms instructor, training the Emperor's soldiers in sword and truncheon, battle axe and spear, lance and crossbow. Unlike bolder friends who flirt with challenging the unequal hierarchies and values of...
- 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.
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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.
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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...
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Author:Blaut, James M.Summary:The Colonizer's Model of the World challenges one of the most pervasive and powerful beliefs of our time concerning world history and world geography. This is the doctrine of European diffusionism, the belief that the rise of Europe to...
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Author:Rogan, EugeneSummary:In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on Arab sources and texts to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context for the first time. Tracing five...
- Author:Johnson, MarciaSummary:
Serving Elizabeth begins in Kenya in 1952, during the fateful royal visit of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh. Mercy, a restaurant owner, is approached to cook for the royal couple. Though she could use the money, she is a...
- 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:Goodison, LornaSummary:
In her first-ever collection of essays, poet and novelist Lorna Goodison interweaves the personal and political to explore themes that have occupied her working life: her love of poetry and the arts, colonialism and its legacy, racism...
- 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:Jones, GaylSummary:
A New York Times "Biggest New Books Coming Out in September" Selection · A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Pick · A Guardian "50 Biggest Books of Autumn 2021" Selection · An Esquire "Best Books of Fall 2021" Selection · A...
- Author:Said, Edward W.Summary:
Orientalism is a profoundly influential and controversial study of the way in which, for at least 2,000 years, ever since the wars between the ancient Greeks and the Persians, the west has fought with, and largely dominated, the east...
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Author:Schneer, JonathanSummary: - Author:Elkins, CarolineSummary:
Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's twentieth-century empire was the largest empire in human history. For many Britons, it epitomized their nation...
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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...
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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...
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Author:Chomsky, NoamSummary:"Reading Chomsky today is sobering and instructive . . . He is a global phenomenon . . . perhaps the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet." -The New York Times Book Review
An immediate national bestseller,...
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