Builders Of Empire

Author : Jessica L. Harland-Jacobs
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469606651

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Builders of Empire by Jessica L. Harland-Jacobs Pdf

They built some of the first communal structures on the empire's frontiers. The empire's most powerful proconsuls sought entrance into their lodges. Their public rituals drew dense crowds from Montreal to Madras. The Ancient Free and Accepted Masons were quintessential builders of empire, argues Jessica Harland-Jacobs. In this first study of the relationship between Freemasonry and British imperialism, Harland-Jacobs takes readers on a journey across two centuries and five continents, demonstrating that from the moment it left Britain's shores, Freemasonry proved central to the building and cohesion of the British Empire. The organization formally emerged in 1717 as a fraternity identified with the ideals of Enlightenment cosmopolitanism, such as universal brotherhood, sociability, tolerance, and benevolence. As Freemasonry spread to Europe, the Americas, Asia, Australasia, and Africa, the group's claims of cosmopolitan brotherhood were put to the test. Harland-Jacobs examines the brotherhood's role in diverse colonial settings and the impact of the empire on the brotherhood; in the process, she addresses issues of globalization, supranational identities, imperial power, fraternalism, and masculinity. By tracking an important, identifiable institution across the wide chronological and geographical expanse of the British Empire, Builders of Empire makes a significant contribution to transnational history as well as the history of the Freemasons and imperial Britain.

Author : Valerie Simoneau
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781631955938

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Empire Builders by Valerie Simoneau Pdf

The Empire Builders has been designed and written to help empower others in the Real Estate Industry to grow a successful business. The Empire Builders shares with readers proven methods and systems to build the basic foundation of a Real Estate career. Each chapter is broken down into successful methods that have built powerhouse Real Estate Agents/Teams and Administrators. The goal is to empower readers to build a relationship with their Admin, repair/rebuild the one they have, and more importantly build a foundation to their growing business. These methods are not a secret, they are just ones that require a passion for Real Estate, the understanding of leverage and will require hard work. The Empire Builders is an Operation Manual for a business and within, readers discover their Secret Weapon.

Author : Ben Bova
Publisher : Tor Science Fiction
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429931914

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Empire Builders by Ben Bova Pdf

Dan Randolph never plays by the rules. A hell-raising maverick with no patience for fools, he is admired by his friends, feared by his enemies, and desired by the world's loveliest women. Acting as a twenty-first privateer, Randolph broke the political strangle-hold on space exploration, and became one of the world's richest men in the bargain. Now an ecological crisis threatens Earth--and the same politicians that Randolph outwitted the first time want to impose a world dictatorship to deal with it. Dan Randolph knows that the answer lies in more human freedom, not less--and in the boundless resources of space. But can he stay free long enough to give the world that chance? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Charles R. Geisst
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195352665

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Monopolies in America by Charles R. Geisst Pdf

In this incisive and comprehensive history, business historian Charles Geisst traces the rise of monopolies from the railroad era to today's computer software empires. The history of monopolies has been dominated by strong and charismatic personalities. Geisst tells the stories behind the individuals--from John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie to Harold Geneen and Bill Gates--who forged these business empires with genius, luck, and an often ruthless disregard for fair competition. He also analyzes the viewpoints of their equally colorful critics, from Louis Brandeis to Ralph Nader. These figures enliven the narrative, offering insight into how large businesses accumulate power. Viewed as either godsends or pariahs, monopolies have sparked endless debate and often conflicting responses from Washington. Monopolies in America surveys the important pieces of legislation and judicial rulings that have emerged since the post-Civil War era, and proposes that American antitrust activity has had less to do with hard economics than with political opinion. What was considered a monopoly in 1911 when Standard Oil and American Tobacco were broken up was not applied again when the Supreme Court refused to dismantle U.S. Steel in 1919. Charting the growth of big business in the United States, Geisst reaches the startling conclusion that the mega-mergers that have dominated Wall Street headlines for the past fifteen years are not simply a trend, but a natural consequence of American capitalism. Intelligent and informative, Monopolies in America skillfully chronicles the course of American big business, and allows us to see how the debate on monopolies will be shaped in the twentieth-first century.

Author : Alan Stratton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0356094073

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The Empire Builders by Alan Stratton Pdf

Author : Peter Pru
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1736230905

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Ecommerce Empire by Peter Pru Pdf

Author : Tom Holland
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748131037

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Persian Fire by Tom Holland Pdf

Tom Holland's bestselling account of the world's very first clash of civilisations between the Persians and the Greeks in 480BC 'Magisterial... told with great authority and a novelistic colour and verve' Books of the Year, Independent 'Holland has a rare eye for detail, drama and the telling anecdote' Dominic Sandbrook, Daily Telegraph 'An unequivocal argument for the relevance of ancient history' Observer 'Holland brings this tumultuous, epoch-making period dazzlingly to life' William Napier, Independent on Sunday In the fifth century BC, a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it regarded as two terrorist states. The superpower was Persia, incomparably rich in ambition, gold and men. The terrorist states were Athens and Sparta, eccentric cities in a poor and mountainous backwater: Greece. The story of how their citizens took on the most powerful man on the planet is as heart-stopping as any episode in history.

Author : H. W. Crocker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781596982833

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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the British Empire by H. W. Crocker Pdf

The British Empire, ”the biggest empire in history”once ruled a quarter of the globe. It was built by an incredible array of swashbuckling soldiers and sailors, pirates and adventurers who finally get their due in H. W. Crocker III's panoramic and provocative view of four hundred years of history that will delight and amuse, educate and entertain. Strap on your pith helmet for a rollicking ride through some of history's most colorful events. Bet your teacher never told you: The Founding Fathers didn't rebel against British imperialism; they looked forward to the transfer of the great seat of Empire to America. The original Norman English invasion of Ireland was approved by the pope. Sir Charles Napier, commander in chief of the British Army in India, abolished the Hindu custom of widow-burning. Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer's hearts and minds counter- insurgency strategy was instrumental in defeating the Communists in Malaya. The breakup of the British Empire led Winston Churchill to conclude that he had achieved nothing in his life.

Author : Edward Ingram
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317791959

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Empire-building and Empire-builders by Edward Ingram Pdf

The twelve studies of empire-building and empire-builders which make up this volume range widely across the dream world that was the British Empire from the late eighteenth century to the Second World War. The essays re-interpret the work of imperial heroes, eminent historians, and fictional heroines. They illustrate the variety of techniques used by British empire-builders and the variety of explanations they gave to account for their sometimes infamous behaviour.

Author : Burton W. Folsom
Publisher : Rhodes and Easton
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015071173598

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Empire Builders by Burton W. Folsom Pdf

Author : Francis Lynde
Publisher : Fite Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781408668245

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Empire Builders by Francis Lynde Pdf

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Michael Prawdin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351479288

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The Mongol Empire by Michael Prawdin Pdf

In his prologue to The Mongol Empire, Michael Prawdin sets the stage for the last and mightiest onslaught of the nomads upon the civilized world. He tells of the many rejoicings in Europe over the successes of the Crusaders in A.D. 1221. But little did Europe know that two decades later, the Mongol hordes organized by Genghis Khan would turn the Middle East into a heap of ruins and spread terror throughout the West. A work of enduring scholarship and literary excellence, The Mongol Empire is a classic on the rise and fall of the world's largest empire. It describes the incredible ascent of the Mongol people, which, through the political and military genius of Genghis Khan, overwhelmed and subdued the nations of most of the world. It demonstrates the transformation of barbarous nomads into the most efficient rulers of their time and describes the crumbling of their vast empire and the assumption of its legacy by the formerly subjugated China and Russia. Maurice Collis in Time and Tide said of The Mongol Empire: "It has the rare merit of being both scholarly and exciting...The entire world comes on to his canvas, romantic and fantastical persons pass in our view, and at the conclusion we realize that we have seen the whole of what Marco Polo saw only in part. " while The Observer commented, "it is a fine book, full of dramatic occasion well used, clear in proportions."

Author : Paul H. Carlson
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1603441336

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Empire Builder in the Texas Panhandle by Paul H. Carlson Pdf

An outsider, he brought his business savvy and vision of civic growth to bear on America's last frontier.

Author : Stephen Basdeo
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526749420

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Heroes and Villains of the British Empire by Stephen Basdeo Pdf

From the sixteenth until the twentieth century, British power and influence gradually expanded to cover one quarter of the world’s surface. The common saying was that “the sun never sets on the British Empire”. What began as a largely entrepreneurial enterprise in the early modern period, with privately run joint stock trading companies such as the East India Company driving British commercial expansion, by the nineteenth century had become, especially after 1857, a state-run endeavor, supported by a powerful military and navy. By the Victorian era, Britannia really did rule the waves. Heroes of the British Empire is the story of how British Empire builders such as Robert Clive, General Gordon, and Lord Roberts of Kandahar were represented and idealized in popular culture. The men who built the empire were often portrayed as possessing certain unique abilities which enabled them to serve their country in often inhospitable territories, and spread what imperial ideologues saw as the benefits of the British Empire to supposedly uncivilized peoples in far flung corners of the world. These qualities and abilities were athleticism, a sense of fair play, devotion to God, and a fervent sense of duty and loyalty to the nation and the empire. Through the example of these heroes, people in Britain, and children in particular, were encouraged to sign up and serve the empire or, in the words of Henry Newbolt, “Play up! Play up! And Play the Game!” Yet this was not the whole story: while some writers were paid up imperial propagandists, other writers in England detested the very idea of the British Empire. And in the twentieth century, those who were once considered as heroic military men were condemned as racist rulers and exploitative empire builders.

Author : Moses Kimball Armstrong
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1330918851

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The Early Empire Builders of the Great West (Classic Reprint) by Moses Kimball Armstrong Pdf

Excerpt from The Early Empire Builders of the Great West It has seldom been our fortune to listen to a more entertaining and instructive discourse than the lecture Of Hon. M. K. Armstrong before the ceum, on the Early Footprints of the Northwest, last Saturday evening. The lecture was well arranged and finely delivered, and adds another to the laurels already won by the author. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.