Download or read book Empires of Remorse written by Tom Bentley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until deep into the 20th century, empire remained a source of pride for European states and their politicians. The 21st century, however, has seen the unexpected emergence of certain European states apologising to their former colonies. Analysing apologies from Germany, Belgium, Britain and Italy, this book explores the shifting ways in which these countries represent their colonial pasts and investigates what this reveals about contemporary international politics, particularly relations between (former) coloniser and colonised. It is argued that, far from renouncing colonialism in its entirety, the apologies are replete with discourses that are reminiscent of the core legitimising tenets of empire. Specifically, the book traces how the apologies both illuminate and recycle many of the inequalities, mind-sets and ambivalences that circulated at the height of empire. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of peace and post-conflict resolution studies, memory studies, colonial studies and postcolonial theory. More broadly, it will be of interest to those studying political science, International Relations, sociology and development.
Download or read book Empires of Remorse written by Tom Bentley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until deep into the 20th century, empire remained a source of pride for European states and their politicians. The 21st century, however, has seen the unexpected emergence of certain European states apologising to their former colonies. Analysing apologies from Germany, Belgium, Britain and Italy, this book explores the shifting ways in which these countries represent their colonial pasts and investigates what this reveals about contemporary international politics, particularly relations between (former) coloniser and colonised. It is argued that, far from renouncing colonialism in its entirety, the apologies are replete with discourses that are reminiscent of the core legitimising tenets of empire. Specifically, the book traces how the apologies both illuminate and recycle many of the inequalities, mind-sets and ambivalences that circulated at the height of empire. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of peace and post-conflict resolution studies, memory studies, colonial studies and postcolonial theory. More broadly, it will be of interest to those studying political science, International Relations, sociology and development.
Download or read book American Empire written by A. G. Hopkins and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Compelling, provocative, and learned. This book is a stunning and sophisticated reevaluation of the American empire. Hopkins tells an old story in a truly new way--American history will never be the same again."--Jeremi Suri, author of The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office.Office.
Download or read book Ancient States and Empires written by John Lord and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book ANCIENT STATES AND EMPIRES FOR COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS written by JOHN LORD LL. D. and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Visions of the Apocalypse written by John Peter Allemand and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great Anglo-American empire, the mightiest military empire in world history, is destined to come to an apocalyptic and inglorious end within the lifetimes of most readers of this book. This is the dire and dreadful message of Visions of the Apocalypse. I had offered these same Bible-based predictions ten years ago in a work published under a poetic title, being fully aware at the time that books by unknown poets are usually ignored. My presumption proved correct, and the book caused hardly a stir. By choosing that approach, I meant to fulfill my mandate and calling in a manner that would avoid undue publicity and possible controversy. Recent world events have strengthened my belief in the validity of my earlier message, and with the end-time approaching with alarming speed, I have now decided that I must sound the alarm once more by publishing this revision but under a title reflecting its true content.
Download or read book The Byzantine and Greek empires pt 2 A D 1057 1453 written by George Finlay and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Greece The Byzantine and Greek empires pt 2 A D 1057 1453 written by George Finlay and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Byzantine and Greek Empires from DCCXVI to MCCCCLIII written by George Finlay and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Byzantine and Greek Empires from MLVII to MCCCCLIII written by George Finlay and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Europe and the British Geographical Imagination 1760 1830 written by Paul Stock and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 explores what literate British people understood by the word 'Europe' in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Was Europe unified by shared religious heritage? Where were the edges of Europe? Was Europe primarily a commercial network or were there common political practices too? Was Britain itself a European country? While intellectual history is concerned predominantly with prominent thinkers, Paul Stock traces the history of ideas in non-elite contexts, offering a detailed analysis of nearly 350 geographical reference works, textbooks, dictionaries, and encyclopaedias, which were widely read by literate Britons of all classes, and can reveal the formative ideas about Europe circulating in Britain: ideas about religion; the natural environment; race and other theories of human difference; the state; borders; the identification of the 'centre' and 'edges' of Europe; commerce and empire; and ideas about the past, progress, and historical change. By showing how these and other questions were discussed in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British culture, Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 provides a thorough and much-needed historical analysis of Britain's enduringly complex intellectual relationship with Europe.
Download or read book Western Empires Christianity and the Inequalities between the West and the Rest written by Sampie Terreblanche and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acute problem of inequality in the world was brought centre stage by the sensational appearance of French economist Thomas Piketty's bestselling book Capital in the Twenty-first Century. In Western Empires, Christianity, and the Inequalities between the West and the Rest 1500-2010, Sampie Terreblanche studies the matter from a political economic perspective, and brings five centuries of global history to bear in his focus on global, as opposed to internal national, inequalities. The unprecedented accumulation of wealth in the Western world has come at a dire cost to the Restern world (a term the author coins), and empire-building is at the root of it. The last 500 years have seen successive epochs of empire followed by war and systemic chaos. During this time, the "haves" of world history have systematically channeled global resources towards the West through cunning and conquest - a process in which Christian missionary societies played a key role as the soft avant-garde, followed by the hardware. The book deals with several concepts of empire, and the forces through which empires have been rolled out through history: arms, money, ideology, religion. What fed into the Eurocentrism and notion of superiority which paved the way for a lamentable history of slavery, exploitation and the unremitting accumulation of wealth and power? The book shows how clearly dangerous a world we live in, with the scales as precipitously tipped as they are. Ten years in the writing, and in many ways the apex of this decorated author's life work, Western Empires is a book for everyone who wishes to understand, or address, the extreme concentration of wealth in the hands of the global few and the hopeless poverty of the many.
Download or read book Empires and Gods written by Jörg Rüpke and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-02-19 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interaction with religions was one of the most demanding tasks for imperial leaders. Religions could be the glue that held an empire together, bolstering the legitimacy of individual rulers and of the imperial enterprise as a whole. Yet, they could also challenge this legitimacy and jeopardize an empire's cohesiveness. As empires by definition ruled heterogeneous populations, they had to interact with a variety of religious cults, creeds, and establishments. These interactions moved from accommodation and toleration, to cooptation, control, or suppression; from aligning with a single religion to celebrating religious diversity or even inventing a new transcendent civic religion; and from lavish patronage to indifference. The volume's contributors investigate these dynamics in major Eurasian empires--from those that functioned in a relatively tolerant religious landscape (Ashokan India, early China, Hellenistic, and Roman empires) to those that allied with a single proselytizing or non-proselytizing creed (Sassanian Iran, Christian and Islamic empires), to those that tried to accommodate different creeds through "pay for pray" policies (Tang China, the Mongols), exploring the advantages and disadvantages of each of these choices.
Download or read book The archer and the steppe or The empires of Scythia a history of Russia and Tartary till the middle of the sixteenth century by F R Grahame written by Catherine Laura Johnstone and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Archer and the Steppe Or the Empires of Scythia a History of Russia and Tartary from the Earliest Ages Till the Fall of the Mongul Power in Europe in the Middle of the Sixteenth Century Appendix Poems Describing the Places and Manners of the Country and People of Russia 1568 by G Turberville written by F. R. GRAHAME (pseud. [i.e. Catherine Laura Johnstone.]) and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire written by Edward Gibbon and published by Dutton Books. This book was released on 1910 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume 6 by Edward Gibbon is given by Ashed Phoenix - Million Book Edition
Download or read book The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire written by Edward Gibbon and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
