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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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Raymond Jonas
Habsburgs on the Rio Grande

"Vividly reconstructs how Maximilian's power was forged and maintained by the sharp end of a French bayonet." --New York Times Book ReviewThe story of how nineteenth-century European rulers cons…

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David Petruccelli
A Scourge of Humanity

A Scourge of Humanity explores the origins of Interpol (the International Criminal Police Commission) and modern international criminal law in interwar Central and Eastern Europe. After the First World Wa…

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Antonia Senior
Stalin's Apostles

The riveting story of the ring of spies known as the Cambridge Five, who infiltrated the highest levels of the British establishment and helped Stalin cement a half century of Soviet domination over Easte…

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Philip Jowett,
Central European Wars 1918-21

Depicts the forces involved in uprisings and border conflicts after the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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Tamara Surani Fernando
Shallow Blue Empire

A nuanced history of seafaring communities in the Indian Ocean, where the force of British imperial power depended on the expertise of local divers and sailors to feed a global demand for pearls.In the la…

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Marshall C Eakin
Empires and Exploration

Empires and Explorations interweaves nineteenth-century Brazilian history, the extraordinary life of Richard Francis Burton, and the use of travel writing by historians. Burton witnessed the origins of th…

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Ahmad Shokr
Harvests of Liberation

"In the first half of the twentieth century, a major change occurred in Egyptian nationalist understandings of imperialism and economic sovereignty. Where once the volatilities of foreign markets and…

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Yesim Bayar
Looking Back

Looking Back is a compelling account of how Armenians, as migrants in Canada, remember their past lives in Turkey and make sense of their experiences in two very different landscapes. Anchored in the work…

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Ahmad Shokr
Harvests of Liberation

"In the first half of the twentieth century, a major change occurred in Egyptian nationalist understandings of imperialism and economic sovereignty. Where once the volatilities of foreign markets and…

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Andrea Major,
Reimagining Empire in India

This book explores debates about East India Company colonialism that took place on the lecture circuits of Britain, in the meeting houses of Calcutta, and at the Mughal court in Delhi in the late 1830s an…

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Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Adrian Masters
The Radical Spanish Empire

A groundbreaking history of political struggle in the Spanish New World, where commoners and elites alike challenged the social order through the remarkable power of paperwork.As Spanish conquistadors swe…

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Kim M Gruenwald
Philadelphia Merchants on Western Waters

"This book examines how Philadelphia merchant networks used commerce and trade to integrate the Midwest into the United States, shaping the region's development before the 1803 Louisiana Purchase&quo…

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William Dalrymple
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

Finalist for the Cundill History PrizeONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal and NPR"Superb ... A vivid and richly detailed…

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Robert Shields Mevissen
The Danube Empire

In the nineteenth century, changes to the environment, driven by ideology, natural forces, and burgeoning fossil fuel power, shifted the course of the Habsburg Empire. Along the Danube--Europe's second lo…

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T J English
The Last Kilo

From true-crime legend T. J. English, the epic, behind-the-scenes saga of "Los Muchachos," one of the most successful cocaine trafficking organizations in American history-a story of glitz, glam…

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Ibero-Dutch Imperial Entanglements in the Seventeenth Century

"By foregrounding the adaptability of the Iberian and Dutch Empires, this volume convincingly challenges the existing scholarship on early modern empires, still largely oriented towards the seemingly…

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High Ground (Blu-ray)

Travis, im Ersten Weltkrieg Scharfschütze und jetzt Ordnungshüter im weiten Norden Australiens, verliert die Kontrolle über einen Einsatz, der in ein Massaker an einer indigenen Gruppe ausartet. Seine Vor…

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Michael Lester
We Are The Bad Guys

We Are the Bad Guys is a bold reckoning with America's role in the world. Moving beyond patriotic slogans and media spin, it exposes how the United States has built and sustained a modern empire-through w…

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