Modern Empire – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 8

Myka Tucker-Abramson
Cartographies of Empire

The road novel is often dismissed as a mundane, nostalgic genre: Jack, Sal, and other tedious white men on the road trying to recapture an authentic youth and American past that never existed. Yet, new ro…

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Myka Tucker-Abramson
Cartographies of Empire

The road novel is often dismissed as a mundane, nostalgic genre: Jack, Sal, and other tedious white men on the road trying to recapture an authentic youth and American past that never existed. Yet, new ro…

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Soon-Tzu Speechley
Malayan Classicism

Presents a significant new way of looking at classical architecture in the Asian colonial context.

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Richard Whatmore
The End of Enlightenment

'A brilliant work of intellectual interpretation by our foremost historian of Enlightenment ideas. Whatmore rescues the Enlightenment from today's circular debates and places it where it belongs: in the p…

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A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Empire and Industry

The 19th century in Western culture was a time of both confidence and turbulence. Industrial development produced a growing middle class as well as efficiency, convenience, and innovation across a range o…

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Michael Gardiner
Empire of Deterrence

A nuclear-extinction unconscious has worked over the last 30 years to 'automate' much political thinking and recuperate it into individualist culture wars that reaffirming the extinction regimesEmpire of …

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Randa Tawil
Race in Transit

At the turn of the twentieth century, life in Ottoman Syria was upended by European and US colonial and capital expansion. Many people responded by migrating to the United States. In doing so, they steppe…

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Randa Tawil
Race in Transit

At the turn of the twentieth century, life in Ottoman Syria was upended by European and US colonial and capital expansion. Many people responded by migrating to the United States. In doing so, they steppe…

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Joseph Sassoon
The Sassoons

A spectacular generational saga of the making (and undoing) of a family dynasty: the riveting untold story of the gilded Jewish Bagdadi Sassoons, who built a vast empire through global finance and trade--…

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Paul Kenyon
China's African Empire

This is the long and turbulent history of China's attempts to influence African states - and how China succeeded in buying access to the rich natural resources, and the millions of consumers, on Africa's …

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Wm Roger Louis
The End of the British Empire in the Middle East, 1952--1971

The quarter century after the end of the Second World War and the transfer of power in India in 1947 marked the slow and turbulent dissolution of the British Empire in the Middle East.Seeking to capture t…

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Martin Thomas
The End of Empires and a World Remade

A capacious history of decolonization from the decline of empires to the era of globalizationEmpires, until recently, were everywhere. They shaped borders, stirred conflicts, and set the terms of internat…

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Bernard Z Keo
Imagining Malaya

A political history of Malaysia that prompts reconsideration of the country's path to independence and nationhood, examining the political trajectory of the Peranakan Chinese-a cosmopolitan minority commu…

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Samia Rahimtoola
Poetry from Spaceship Earth

In the early decades of the postwar period, the planetary metaphor of "spaceship Earth" was everywhere in the West. It exerted its power on sites as various as Caribbean research stations, the s…

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Amit Prakash
Empire on the Seine

Amit Prakash draws on extensive archival materials to understand the colonial legacy of how minority populations have been policed in twentieth-century Paris, showing how colonial racism was integrated in…

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Matthew Mullane
World Observation

World Observation explores the archives and architecture of Itō Chūta (1867-1954), the eminent architectural thinker of the Japanese empire, who traveled across Asia, Europe, and North America to create t…

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Robert St Clair
Counter-Modernities in Nineteenth-Century French Literature

Counter-Modernities in Nineteenth-Century French Literature explores a counterview of modernity in late nineteenth-century French literature (1848-1891). The principal claim of this book is that what we f…

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Securing Empire

This volume explains how security was crucial to 19th-century Empire, showing how imperial rule was characterised by international competition and cooperation against perceived threats.

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H. G. Wells, Will Tattersdill
The Empire of the Ants and Other Stories

'Very thin indeed is the curtain between us and the unknown'The short stories of H. G. Wells are about many things, but they are nearly always about contact between the extraordinary and the everyday. The…

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Martin Stupich
Ore and Empire

Photography and the history of extraction combine as Marty Stupich's extraordinary images map the 600 year oppression of the lands and people from the Mexican Conquest to the Guggenheims, from deep inside…

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