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Unconquered States

This book explores the struggles for sovereignty of the few nominally independent non-Western states in the imperial age. It addresses four major aspects of the relations these countries had with the West…

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Caroline Elkins
Imperial Reckoning

A major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of Britain's civilizing mission in KenyaAs part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the…

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Bogdan G Popescu
Imperial Borderlands

"What are the institutions which govern border spaces and how do they impact long-term economic development? The book focuses on the Habsburg frontier and provides a new framework for understanding h…

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Stephen R Platt
Imperial Twilight

As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country's last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War.As one…

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Patrick Glauthier
The Scientific Sublime in Imperial Rome

The Scientific Sublime in Imperial Rome charts the significance of the sublime in first-century debates about how and why we investigate the natural world. By connecting Manilius' Astronomica , Seneca's N…

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Stacey Hynd
Imperial Gallows

Not just a method of crime control or individual punishment in Britain's African territories, the death penalty was an integral aspect of colonial networks of power and violence. Imperial Gallows analyses…

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Philip Grobien
Iran at the Paris Peace Conference

"Using primary Persian and other previously unused source material this book describes Iran's activities at the Peace of Paris in 1919 and how Iran's intentions and desiderata were to put them at log…

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Francesca Modini
Aelius Aristides and the Poetics of Lyric in Imperial Greek Culture

This book is the first study of the persistence and significance of ancient lyric in imperial Greek culture. Redefining lyric reception as a phenomenon ranging from textual engagement with ancient poems t…

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Michael Loewe, Michael Nylan, T. Corey Brennan
Imperial Institutions in Ancient Rome and Early China

Written by the eminent sinologist Michael Loewe, and edited for publication by T. Corey Brennan and Michael Nylan, this book gives an overview of the considerations and practices of two major world empire…

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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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Warlord Games,
Bolt Action: Armies of Imperial Japan: Third Edition

A detailed guide to the Japanese forces in Bolt Action: Third Edition, containing updated special rules, unit entries, and force selection guides.Following the assault on Pearl Harbor, the Imperial Japane…

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Annaliese Jacobs Claydon
Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge

In 1845 an expedition led by Sir John Franklin vanished in the Canadian Arctic. The enduring obsession with the Franklin mystery, and in particular Inuit information about its fate, is partly due to the w…

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Michael Loewe, Michael Nylan, T Corey Brennan
Imperial Institutions in Ancient Rome and Early China

"Written by the eminent sinologist Michael Loewe, this book gives an overview of the considerations and practices of two major world empires that together ruled one-half of the earth's population in …

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Chun Fung Tong
State Power and Governance in Early Imperial China

Offers a new perspective on the first dynasty of imperial China and the reasons for its collapse. State Power and Governance in Early Imperial China delves into the governance and capacity of the state by…

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Irina Sirotkina
Dancing Freedom

For a long time, dance scholars and the public were hardly aware that modern dance existed in Russia. This book, however, delves into its presence, significance and survival in the late Tsarist and Soviet…

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Karl Schlögel
Das sowjetische Jahrhundert

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Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse 2018 in der Kategorie Sachbuch/Essyistik Der große Osteuropa-Historiker Karl Schlögel lädt mit seiner Archäologie des Kommunismus zu einer Neuvermessung der sowjetischen We…

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Ladybird
Ancient and Imperial China: Read It Yourself - Level 4 Fluent Reader

Discover the Terracotta Army, the Silk Road and the great inventions of China - from paper and porcelain to fireworks and acupuncture. Ancient and Imperial China is from Fluent Reader Level 4. It is idea…

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K Ian Shin
Imperial Stewards

"From the Gilded Age to World War II, elite collectors and museums in the United States transformed from owning a smattering of Chinese porcelain as curios to possessing some of the world's largest a…

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K Ian Shin
Imperial Stewards

"From the Gilded Age to World War II, elite collectors and museums in the United States transformed from owning a smattering of Chinese porcelain as curios to possessing some of the world's largest a…

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Nikolas Broy
Flourishing Fasts

Flourishing Feasts is the first book to explore the socioreligious history of the Zhaijiao, "vegetarian sects," that originated in China during the Ming and Qing dynasties and are still active i…

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