Download or read book Empire s Violent End written by Thijs Brocades Zaalberg and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Empire's Violent End, Thijs Brocades Zaalberg and Bart Luttikhuis, along with expert contributors, present comparative research focused specifically on excessive violence in Indonesia, Algeria, Vietnam, Malaysia, Kenya, and other areas during the wars of decolonization. In the last two decades, there have been heated public and scholarly debates in France, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands on the violent end of empire. Nevertheless, the broader comparative investigations into colonial counterinsurgency tend to leave atrocities such as torture, execution, and rape in the margins. The editors describe how such comparisons mostly focus on the differences by engaging in "guilt ranking." Moreover, the dramas that have unfolded in Algeria and Kenya tend to overshadow similar violent events in Indonesia, the very first nation to declare independence directly after World War II. Empire's Violent End is the first book to place the Dutch-Indonesian case at the heart of a comparison with focused, thematic analysis on a diverse range of topics to demonstrate that despite variation in scale, combat intensity, and international dynamics, there were more similarities than differences in the ways colonial powers used extreme forms of violence. By delving into the causes and nature of the abuse, Brocades Zaalberg and Luttikhuis conclude that all cases involved some form of institutionalized impunity, which enabled the type of situation in which the forces in the service of the colonial rulers were able to use extreme violence.
Download or read book Tending the Empire written by Eric Jurgens and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Visions of Empire written by Krishan Kumar and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this extraordinary volume, Krishan Kumar provides us with a brilliant tour of some of history's most important empires, demonstrating the critical importance of imperial ideas and ideologies for understanding their modalities of rule and the conflicts that beset them. In doing so, he interrogates the contested terrain between nationalism and empire and the legacies that empires leave behind."--Mark R. Beissinger, Princeton University "This is an excellent book with original insights into the history of empires and the discourses and rhetoric of their rulers and defenders. Kumar's writing is lively and free of jargon, and his research is prodigious. He manages to bring clarity and perspective to a complex subject."--Ronald Grigor Suny, author of "They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide "A masterly piece of work."--Anthony Pagden, author of The Burdens of Empire: 1539 to the Present
Download or read book A Memory Called Empire written by Arkady Martine and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novel A Locus, and Nebula Award nominee for 2019 A Best Book of 2019: Library Journal, Polygon, Den of Geek An NPR Favorite Book of 2019 A Guardian Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2019 and “Not the Booker Prize” Nominee A Goodreads Biggest SFF Book of 2019 and Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee "A Memory Called Empire perfectly balances action and intrigue with matters of empire and identity. All around brilliant space opera, I absolutely love it."—Ann Leckie, author of Ancillary Justice Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn't an accident—or that Mahit might be next to die, during a time of political instability in the highest echelons of the imperial court. Now, Mahit must discover who is behind the murder, rescue herself, and save her Station from Teixcalaan's unceasing expansion—all while navigating an alien culture that is all too seductive, engaging in intrigues of her own, and hiding a deadly technological secret—one that might spell the end of her Station and her way of life—or rescue it from annihilation. A fascinating space opera debut novel, Arkady Martine's A Memory Called Empire is an interstellar mystery adventure. "The most thrilling ride ever. This book has everything I love."—Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds in the Sky And coming soon, the brilliant sequel, A Desolation Called Peace! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book The Course of Empire written by Bernard De Voto and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1998 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing North American Exploration from Balboa to Lewis and Clark, Devoto tells in a classic fashion how the drama of discovery defined the American nation. The Course of Empire is the third volume in historian Bernard Devoto's monumental trilogy of the West. Entertaining and incisive, this is the dramatic story of three hundred years of exploration of North America leading up to 1805.
Download or read book The World s Work written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tending to Empire written by Benjamin J. Nelson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is an investigation of the genesis, circulation and disappearance of the Spanish pastoral novel of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in relation to the Spanish imperial project during its apogee and decline during the same period. Through a close reading of certain Spanish pastoral novels and an examination of historical materials from the period, this study uncovers a number of links between pastoral and empire. Each chapter focuses on a discrete number of pastoral novels, moving chronologically from Jorge de Montemayor's Los siete libros de la Diana (1559) to don Gabriel de Corral's La Cintia de Aranjuez (1629). The first chapter demonstrates how classical and early-Renaissance texts may be read as either praising or criticizing their own country's sociopolitical situation. The same chapter also discusses how, through other genres, Iberian authors (the dramatist Juan del Encina and the poet Garcilaso de la Vega) imitated their precursors by choosing the pastoral to honor contemporary historical figures. Since the study of the Spanish empire can be divided into three parts---its rise and subsequent grandeur (under the reign of Charles V), its tumultuous apogee (under Philip II) and its decadence (with Philip III and Philip IV), this dissertation accomplishes the same with the pastoral novel canon. In the second chapter, Jorge de Montemayor's Los siete libros de la Diana, Alonso Perez's La Diana de Montemayor (1563) and Gaspar Gil Polo's Diana enamorada (1564) praise Charles V and his court with the construction of a locus amoenus within Spain. In the third chapter, Luis Galvez de Montalvo's El pastor de Filida (1582) and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's La Galatea (1585) continue the tradition laid out by their precursors by praising Iberia but, within the same space, include numerous criticisms of the nascent decadence of the empire. In the final chapter, Felix Lope de Vega Carpio's La Arcadia (1598) and don Gabriel de Corral's La Cintia de Aranjuez possess more criticism than praise of Spain and its empire. This dissertation investigates how history can influence the structure of a specific literary genre, and how this genre can reflect upon the historical milieu.
Download or read book Empire written by Steven Saylor and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "May Steven Saylor's Roman empire never fall. A modern master of historical fiction, Saylor convincingly transports us into the ancient world...enthralling!" —USA Today on Roma Continuing the saga begun in his New York Times bestselling novel Roma, Steven Saylor charts the destinies of the aristocratic Pinarius family, from the reign of Augustus to height of Rome's empire. The Pinarii, generation after generation, are witness to greatest empire in the ancient world and of the emperors that ruled it—from the machinations of Tiberius and the madness of Caligula, to the decadence of Nero and the golden age of Trajan and Hadrian and more. Empire is filled with the dramatic, defining moments of the age, including the Great Fire, the persecution of the Christians, and the astounding opening games of the Colosseum. But at the novel's heart are the choices and temptations faced by each generation of the Pinarii. Steven Saylor once again brings the ancient world to vivid life in a novel that tells the story of a city and a people that has endured in the world's imagination like no other.
Download or read book Empire and sexuality written by Ronald Hyam and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in the belief that imperialism as a cultural phenomenon had as significant an effect on the dominant as it did on the subordinate societies, the "Studies in Imperialism" series seeks to develop the new socio-cultural approach which has emerged through cross-disciplinary work on popular culture, media studies, art history, the study of education and religion, sports history and children's literature. The cultural emphasis embraces studies of migration and race, while the older political, and constitutional, economic and military concerns are never far away. It incorporates comparative work on European and American empire-building, with the chronological focus primarily, though not exclusively, on the 19th and 20th centuries, when these cultural exchanges were most powerfully at work. This work explores the sexual attitudes and activities of those who ran the British Empire. The study explains the pervasive importance of sexuality in the Victorian Empire, both for individuals and as a general dynamic in the working of the system. Among the topics included in the book are prostitution, the manners and mores of missionaries and aspects of race in sexual behaviour.
Download or read book Agricola written by William Emerton Heitland and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Colonial Policy 1754 1765 written by George Louis Beer and published by New York : MacMillan. This book was released on 1907 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Empire of Bones Book 1 of the Empire of Bones Saga Large Print written by Terry Mixon and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a terrible war almost extinguished humanity, the New Terran Empire rises from its own ashes.Sent on an exploratory mission to the dead worlds of the Old Empire, Commander Jared Mertz sets off into the unknown.Only the Old Empire isn't quite dead after all. Evil lurks in the dark.With everything he holds dear at stake, Jared must fight like never before. Victory means life. Defeat means death. Or worse.If you love military science fiction and grand adventure on a galaxy-spanning scale, grab "Empire of Bones" and the rest of The Empire of Bones Saga today!
Download or read book The Statist written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Calendar of State Papers Foreign Series of the Reign of Elizabeth 1558 1589 written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rethinking the End of Empire written by Lynn M. Tesser and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did a nation-state order emerge when nationalist activism was usually an elitist pursuit in the age of empire? Ordinary inhabitants and even most indigenous elites tended to possess religious, ethnic, or status-based identities rather than national identities. Why then did the desires of a typically small number result in wave after wave of new states? The answer has customarily centered on the actions of "nationalists" against weakening empires during a time of proliferating beliefs that "peoples" should control their own destiny. This book upends conventional wisdom by demonstrating that nationalism often existed more in the perceptions of external observers than of local activists and insurgents. Lynn M. Tesser adds nuance to scholarship that assumes most, if not all, pre-independence unrest was nationalist and separatist, and sheds light on why the various demands for change eventually coalesced around independence in some cases but not others.
Download or read book History of the Consulate and the Empire of France Under Napoleon written by Adolphe Thiers and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book City and Empire in the Age of the Successors written by Ryan Boehm and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the chaotic decades after the death of Alexander the Great, the world of the Greek city-state became deeply embroiled in the political struggles and unremitting violence of his successors’ contest for supremacy. As these presumptive rulers turned to the practical reality of administering the disparate territories under their control, they increasingly developed new cities by merging smaller settlements into large urban agglomerations. This practice of synoikism gave rise to many of the most important cities of the age, initiated major shifts in patterns of settlement, and consolidated numerous previously independent polities. The result was the increasing transformation of the fragmented world of the small Greek polis into an urbanized network of cities. Drawing on a wide array of archaeological, epigraphic, and textual evidence, City and Empire in the Age of the Successors reinterprets the role of urbanization in the creation of the Hellenistic kingdoms and argues for the agency of local actors in the formation of these new imperial cities.
