Empire – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 10

John Marriott

Land, Law and Empire

In this innovative exploration of British rule in India, John Marriott tackles one of the most significant and unanswered questions surrounding the East India Company's success. How and when was an Englis…

John Burnside

The Empire of Forgetting

A powerful exploration of life and death, illness and grace, wonder and beauty, in the posthumous collection from one of our greatest contemporary poets 'It's impossible not to love the world more when re…

Kathleen Wilson

Strolling Players of Empire

Why did Britons get up a play wherever they went? Kathleen Wilson reveals how the performance of English theater and a theatricalized way of viewing the world shaped the geopolitics and culture of empire …

Ellen Huet

Empire of Orgasm

"This isn't just a tale of one cultish company-it's a mirror held up to tech's dark side, so full of greed and self-delusion." -Ashlee Vance, New York Times bestselling author of When the Heaven…

Muzaffar Alam, Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Mirrors of Empire

Approaches the history of the Mughal Empire at the level of human experience, through a diverse group of autobiographical narratives. Starting from 1526, the Mughals ruled over much of India for three cen…

Apurba Chatterjee

An Empire of Images

This book centres on the question of how visuality projected ideologies of the British Indian Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century. How did hierarchies of race, class, and gender come to be formulated an…

John Marriott

Land, Law and Empire

In this innovative exploration of British rule in India, John Marriott tackles one of the most significant and unanswered questions surrounding the East India Company's success. How and when was an Englis…

Darragh Gannon

Conflict, Diaspora, and Empire

From the politics of John Redmond to the political violence of Michael Collins, Irish nationalism in Britain was integral to British assessments of the Irish Question. Far from a 'sideshow' to the revolut…

James Grehan

Empire of Manners

It is easy to believe that manners are empty gestures, little more than social artifice or practiced etiquette whose sole purpose is to project civility and facilitate social interaction. But if we look m…

Alexander B Bick

Minutes of Empire

In September 1645, when the directors of the West India Company gathered for their semi-annual board meeting, they faced the most important crisis in the company's history, one that would determine the fa…

Tamara L Bray

Objects of Empire

A comparative, empire-wide study of the ceramics associated with the imperial Inca state, theorizing the role of these highly recognizable vessel forms in legitimizing Inca rule and establishing imperial …

Deserted Fear

My Empire (Re-issue 2018) (remastered) (180g)

Sathnam Sanghera

Journeys of Empire

This is the story of the British empire for readers aged 9+, told through the monumental journeys that shaped it - by award-winning, bestselling author of Empireland, Empireworld and Stolen History Sathna…

James M Scott

Empire of Ashes

Over three days in August 1945, a nation once morally opposed to the bombing of civilians killed 120,000 men, women, and children; doomed tens of thousands more to agonizing death in the weeks and months …

Jay Kristoff

Empire of the Damned. lllustrated Special Edition

This special edition ofEmpire of the Damned includes full-colour illustrations by Bon Orthwick, a stunning new cover design, and head and tail bands.'Bloody brilliant'V.E. Schwab'A ripping read'Joe Abercr…

A. James Hammerton

Love, Class and Empire

Early twentieth-century Persia and the Persian Gulf presented a largely blank slate to the British, best known only as a vital conduit to India and a site of contest - the 'great game' - with the Russian …

S. A. Chakraborty

The Empire of Gold

The final chapter in the bestselling, critically acclaimed Daevabad Trilogy, in which a con-woman and an idealistic djinn prince join forces to save a magical kingdom from a devastating civil war.

Verity McInnis

Women of Empire

In his Rules for Wife Behavior, Colonel Joseph Whistler summed up his expectations for his new bride: "You will remember you are not in command of anything except the cook." Although their roles…

Steve Perry

Shadows of the Empire

Shadows of the Empire illuminates the shadowy outlines of a criminal conspiracy that exists in the background of the events in the movies, ruled by a character new to us. Prince Xizor is a mastermind of e…