Modern Empire – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 9

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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Hakan Mertcan
The Alawis of Modern Turkey

The Arab 'Alawis constitute a sizable minority in contemporary Turkey. Yet their history and relationship with the evolving Turkish state has been hitherto under-studied.This book charts the history, iden…

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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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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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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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Patrick Kelly-Fischer, Phillip S Greenwalt
Desert Empire

In late July 1861, Lieutenant Colonel John Baylor and 258 Texas cavalrymen thundered into the small village of Mesilla, tucked along the Rio Grande River in the New Mexico Territory. They skirmished with …

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Louis L Picone
Ulysses's Odyssey

In May 1877, Ulysses S. Grant, newly departed from two terms in the White House, embarked on an extraordinary three-year journey that defined a pivotal moment in the Gilded Age. Driven by a lifelong passi…

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Piya Pal-Lapinski
Istanbul and the Ottoman Empire in Romantic and Victorian Culture

Piya Pal-Lapinski explores the transformation of the Ottoman empire (and its Byzantine ghosts) during the period 1800-1876 in terms of its crucial impact on British and European transnational identities. …

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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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Billy Bragg

The Roaring Forty (Limited Super Deluxe Box Set)

2023 feiern Billy Bragg und Cooking Vinyl vierzig Jahre Musik des Sängers, Songwriters, Aktivisten und Autors mit einer Auswahl an Veröffentlichungen, die sowohl Gelegenheitsliebhaber als auch eingefleisc…

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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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Holly Macve

Golden Eagle

Die musikalische Entdeckung von Holly Macve erzählt sich wie ein kleines, modernes Märchen. Simon Raymonde, seines Zeichens Labelchef von Bella Union, entdeckte die 21-jährige bei einem Open Mic-Abend i…

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