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Book The Imperial Idea and its Enemies

Download or read book The Imperial Idea and its Enemies written by A P Thornton and published by Springer. This book was released on 1985-06-03 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Imperial Idea and Its Enemies

Download or read book The Imperial Idea and Its Enemies written by Archibald Paton Thornton and published by London : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Imperial Idea and Its Enemies

Download or read book The Imperial Idea and Its Enemies written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Imperial Idea and Its Enemies

Download or read book The Imperial Idea and Its Enemies written by James Gordon Herbert Olle and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Imperial Idea and Its Enemies

Download or read book The Imperial Idea and Its Enemies written by Archibald Paton Thornton and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Six Day War of 1899

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  • Author : Patrick H. Hase
  • Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
  • Release : 2008-01-01
  • ISBN : 9622098991
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book The Six Day War of 1899 written by Patrick H. Hase and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1899, a year after the Convention of Peking leased the New Territories to Britain, the British moved to establish control. This triggered resistance by the some of the population of the New Territories. There ensued six days of fighting with heavy Chinese casualties. This truly forgotten war has been thoroughly researched for the first time and recounted in lively style by Patrick Hase, an expert on the people and history of the New Territories.

Book The Savage in Literature

Download or read book The Savage in Literature written by Brian V. Street and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1975, this study is concerned with the representation of non-European people in English popular fiction in the period from 1858-1920. It examines the developments in thinking about people across the world and shows how they affected writers’ views of evolution, race, heredity and of the life of the so-called ‘primitive’ man. This book will be of interest to those studying 19th century literature.

Book Studies in British Imperial History

Download or read book Studies in British Imperial History written by Gordon Martel and published by Springer. This book was released on 1986-06-16 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Science Fiction Roots And Branches

Download or read book Science Fiction Roots And Branches written by Rhys Garnett and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-07-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Imperialism in the Twentieth Century

Download or read book Imperialism in the Twentieth Century written by A. P. Thornton and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1978-07 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imperialism in the Twentieth Century was first published in 1978. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. "Nothing is filed under the heading 'imperialism' in the archives of any nation-state that owned an empire. Foreign affairs, or external relations, are catalogued there, and a place is found for imperial administration and colonial trade; but 'imperialism' is always a listing in someone else's index, never one's own. It is not the name a government uses to classify the policies it sets in motion. It is the name given them by those who adopt a particular attitude... In our time the attitude toward this control is hostile." With these words A.P. Thornton takes on a complex and elusive term, imperialism,and pursues its meaning and implications in the years of imperial decline. The disappearance of territorial empire, according to Thornton, did not bring imperial impulses to an end, nor did it destroy the power relationships set up in the heyday of empire. Casting a cool eye on the claims of both imperialism and nationalism—the principal countervailing force—Thornton brings imagination, wide learning, and clarifying wit to bear upon a subject that remains significant in the last quarter of the twentieth century.

Book Chronicles of the Raj

Download or read book Chronicles of the Raj written by Shamsul Islam and published by Springer. This book was released on 1979-06-17 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Civilization and Its Enemies

Download or read book Civilization and Its Enemies written by Lee Harris and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-03-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forgetfulness occurs when those who have been long inured to civilized order can no longer remember a time in which they had to wonder whether their crops would grow to maturity without being stolen or their children sold into slavery by a victorious foe....They forget that in time of danger, in the face of the enemy, they must trust and confide in each other, or perish....They forget, in short, that there has ever been a category of human experience called the enemy. "That, before 9/11, was what had happened to us. The very concept of the enemy had been banished from our moral and political vocabulary. An enemy was just a friend we hadn't done enough for yet. Or perhaps there had been a misunderstanding, or an oversight on our part -- something that we could correct.... "Our first task is therefore to try to grasp what the concept of the enemy really means. The enemy is someone who is willing to die in order to kill you. And while it is true that the enemy always hates us for a reason, it is his reason, and not ours." So begins Civilization and Its Enemies, an extraordinary tour de force by America's "reigning philosopher of 9/11," Lee Harris. What Francis Fukuyama did for the end of the Cold War, Lee Harris has now done for the next great conflict: the war between the civilized world and the international terrorists who wish to destroy it. Each major turning point in our history has produced one great thinker who has been able to step back from petty disagreements and see the bigger picture -- and Lee Harris has emerged as that man for our time. He is the one who has helped make sense of the terrorists' fantasies and who forces us most strongly to confront the fact that our enemy -- for the first time in centuries -- refuses to play by any of our rules, or to think in any of our categories. We are all naturally reluctant to face a true enemy. Most of us cannot give up the myth that tolerance is the greatest of virtues and that we can somehow convert the enemy to our beliefs. Yet, as Harris's brilliant tour through the stages of civilization demonstrates, from Sparta to the French Revolution to the present, civilization depends upon brute force, properly wielded by a sovereign. Today, only America can play the role of sovereign on the world stage, by the use of force when necessary. Lee Harris's articles have been hailed by thinkers from across the spectrum. His message is an enduring one that will change the way readers think -- about the war with Iraq, about terrorism, and about our future.

Book English Historical Documents  1874 1914

Download or read book English Historical Documents 1874 1914 written by David Charles Douglas and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "English Historical Documents is the most comprehensive, annotated collection of documents on British (not in reality just English) history ever compiled. Conceived during the Second World War with a view to ensuring the most important historical documents remained available and accessible in perpetuity, the first volume came out in 1953, and the most recent volume almost sixty years later. The print series, edited by David C. Douglas, is a magisterial survey of British history, covering the years 500 to 1914 and including around 5,500 primary sources, all selected by leading historians Editors. It has over the years become an indispensable resource for generations of students, researchers and lecturers. EHD is now available in its entirety online. Bringing EHD into the digital age has been a long and complex process. To provide you with first-rate, intelligent searchability, Routledge have teamed up with the Institute of Historical Research (one of the research institutes that make up the School of Advanced Study, University of London http://www.history.ac.uk) to produce EHD Online. The IHR's team of experts have fully indexed the documents, using an exhaustive historical thesaurus developed by the Royal Historical Society for its Bibliography of British and Irish History. The sources include treaties, statutes, declarations, government and cabinet proceedings, military dispatches, orders, acts, sermons, newspaper articles, pamphlets, personal and official letters, diaries and more. Each section of documents and many of the documents themselves are accompanied by editorial commentary. The sources cover a wide spectrum of topics, from political and constitutional issues to social, economic, religious as well as cultural history."--[Résumé de l'éditeur].

Book Britain s Imperial Muse

Download or read book Britain s Imperial Muse written by C. Hagerman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain's Imperial Muse explores the classics' contribution to British imperialism and to the experience of empire in India through the long 19th century. It reveals the classics role as a foundational source for positive conceptions of empire and a rhetorical arsenal used by commentators to justify conquest and domination, especially of India.

Book Metamorphosis   Structures of Cultural Transformations

Download or read book Metamorphosis Structures of Cultural Transformations written by Jürgen Schlaeger and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 2005 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ireland and Empire in the Late Nineteenth Century

Download or read book Ireland and Empire in the Late Nineteenth Century written by Fergal O'Leary and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the place of imperialism in the cultural, political and economic life of late nineteenth-century Irish society.It highlights the tensions which arose because Ireland was at the same time both a colonial subject of Britain, yet also shared aspects of the imperial culture which was being formed during this period. It considers how Empire seeped into everyday Irish life, explores how Irishmen and Irish women were intimately bound up with British expansionism, with imperial achievements and setbacks enthusiastically covered in many national and local newspapers, and discusses how Irish politicians and students vehemently debated imperial matters in public. It addresses key question including What were the similarities and differences with Britain's imperial experience? Was there a general awareness and understanding of the implications of British overseas expansionism? How was Ireland's ambiguous role in Britain's imperial enterprise perceived: did the Irish perceive themselves as empire-makers, opponents of British national chauvinism, or occupying a more neutral role? Overall, the book provides a nuanced analysis of the impact of the British Empire in Ireland, demonstrating how the Empire was central to Ireland's late nineteenth-century historical experience - for nationalists and unionists alike., opponents of British national chauvinism, or occupying a more neutral role? Overall, the book provides a nuanced analysis of the impact of the British Empire in Ireland, demonstrating how the Empire was central to Ireland's late nineteenth-century historical experience - for nationalists and unionists alike., opponents of British national chauvinism, or occupying a more neutral role? Overall, the book provides a nuanced analysis of the impact of the British Empire in Ireland, demonstrating how the Empire was central to Ireland's late nineteenth-century historical experience - for nationalists and unionists alike., opponents of British national chauvinism, or occupying a more neutral role? Overall, the book provides a nuanced analysis of the impact of the British Empire in Ireland, demonstrating how the Empire was central to Ireland's late nineteenth-century historical experience - for nationalists and unionists alike.

Book Empire as the Triumph of Theory

Download or read book Empire as the Triumph of Theory written by Edward Beasley and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A key addition to our understanding of the Victorian-era British Empire, this book looks at the founders of the Colonial Society and the ideas that led them down the path to imperialism.