End of Empire
Author | : Brian Lapping |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Commonwealth countries |
ISBN | : 9780246119698 |
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Author | : Brian Lapping |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Commonwealth countries |
ISBN | : 9780246119698 |
Author | : Bruce Baugh |
Publisher | : White Wolf Games Studio |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781565046184 |
Ends of Empire is the stunning Year of the Reckoning "TM" conclusion to the epic Wraith: The Oblivion storyline. It contains a four-part adventure that takes characters from the streets of Necropolis: London to the councils of Charon himself. Also included is the complete "Guildbook: Mnemoi, " plus an in-depth look at Ferrymen, a last glance at the Jade Empire and the conclusion of the continuing Wraith fiction storyline. The events of this book have direct impact on Hunter: The Reckoning "TM," the sixth of the modern Storyteller games.
Author | : Laura Brown |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : 9780801480959 |
This book explores the representation of women in english literature from the Restoration to the fall of Walpole.
Author | : Ian W. Campbell |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2017-03-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501707892 |
In Knowledge and the Ends of Empire, Ian W. Campbell investigates the connections between knowledge production and policy formation on the Kazak steppes of the Russian Empire. Hoping to better govern the region, tsarist officials were desperate to obtain reliable information about an unfamiliar environment and population. This thirst for knowledge created opportunities for Kazak intermediaries to represent themselves and their landscape to the tsarist state. Because tsarist officials were uncertain of what the steppe was, and disagreed on what could be made of it, Kazaks were able to be part of these debates, at times influencing the policies that were pursued.Drawing on archival materials from Russia and Kazakhstan and a wide range of nineteenth-century periodicals in Russian and Kazak, Campbell tells a story that highlights the contingencies of and opportunities for cooperation with imperial rule. Kazak intermediaries were at first able to put forward their own idiosyncratic views on whether the steppe was to be Muslim or secular, whether it should be a center of stock-raising or of agriculture, and the extent to which local institutions needed to give way to imperial institutions. It was when the tsarist state was most confident in its knowledge of the steppe that it committed its gravest errors by alienating Kazak intermediaries and placing unbearable stresses on pastoral nomads. From the 1890s on, when the dominant visions in St. Petersburg were of large-scale peasant colonization of the steppe and its transformation into a hearth of sedentary agriculture, the same local knowledge that Kazaks had used to negotiate tsarist rule was transformed into a language of resistance.
Author | : William Roger Louis |
Publisher | : I. B. Tauris |
Total Pages | : 1092 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Pax Britannica to Pax Americana is the story of the British Empire from its late-nineteenth century flowering to its present extinction. Louis traces the British Empire from the scramble for Africa, the turbulent imperial history of the Second World War in Asia, and the mid-20th century rush to independence to the Suez crisis, the icon of empire's end. It forms the ideal platform from which to examine the aims and outcome of empire. This authoritative and highly engaging history appears at a time when interest in the history of the British Empire has, ironically, never been stronger, making Ends of British Imperialism a must-read item for both scholar and general reader.
Author | : Hendrik Spruyt |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2018-05-31 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1501717871 |
At the dawn of the twentieth century, imperial powers controlled most of the globe. Within a few decades after World War II, many of the great empires had dissolved, and more recently, multinational polities have similarly disbanded. This process of reallocating patterns of authority, from internal hierarchy to inter-state relations, proved far more contentious in some cases than in others. While some governments exited the colonial era without becoming embroiled in lengthy conflicts, others embarked on courses that drained their economies, compelled huge sacrifices, and caused domestic upheaval and revolution. What explains these variations in territorial policy? More specifically, why do some governments have greater latitude to alter existing territorial arrangements whereas others are constrained in their room for maneuver? In Ending Empire, Hendrik Spruyt argues that the answer lies in the domestic institutional structures of the central governments. Fragmented polities provide more opportunities for hard-liners to veto concessions to nationalist and secessionist demands, thus making violent conflict more likely. Spruyt examines these dynamics in the democratic colonial empires of Britain, France, and the Netherlands. He then turns to the authoritarian Portuguese empire and the break-up of the Soviet Union. Finally, the author submits that this theory, which speaks to the political dynamics of partition, can be applied to other contested territories, including those at the heart of the Arab–Israeli conflict.
Author | : Martin Thomas |
Publisher | : Oxford Handbooks |
Total Pages | : 801 |
Release | : 2019-02-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198713193 |
This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online.
Author | : Alexis A. Gilliland |
Publisher | : Del Rey |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780345313348 |
Author | : Rachael Gilmour |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2015-07-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1784991791 |
Available in paperback for the first time, this first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Particular genres are also discussed, including the family saga, travel writing, detective fiction and popular romances. All included reflect on the predicament of an England which no longer lies at the centre of imperial power, arriving at a fascinating diversity of conclusions about the meaning and consequences of the end of empire and the privileged location of the novel for discussing what decolonization meant for the domestic English population of the metropole. The book is written in an easy style, unburdened by large sections of abstract reflection. It endeavours to bring alive in a new way the traditions of the English novel.
Author | : Christopher Kelly |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2009-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0393061965 |
Conjuring up images of savagery and ferocity, Attila the Hun has become a byword for barbarianism. This history reframes the warrior king as a political strategist who dealt a seemingly invincible empire defeats from which it would never recover.