Converging Empires

Author : Andrea Geiger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 077486799X

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Converging Empires examines the role the North Pacific borderlands played in the construction of race and citizenship, from 1867, when the United States acquired Russia's interests in Alaska, through to the end of World War II. Imperial, national, provincial, territorial, reserve, and municipal borders worked together to create a dynamic legal landscape that both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people negotiated in myriad ways. As they crossed from one jurisdiction to another, on both sides of the British Columbia-Alaska border, adventurers, prospectors, laborers, and settlers from Europe, Canada, the United States, Latin America, and Asia made and remade themselves. This book makes a vital contribution to our understanding of North American borderlands history.

Author : Andrea A. E. Geiger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Alaska
ISBN : 1469667851

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Converging Empires by Andrea A. E. Geiger Pdf

"Making a vital contribution to our understanding of North American borderlands history through its examination of the northernmost stretches of the U.S.-Canada border, Andrea Geiger highlights the role that the north Pacific borderlands played in the construction of race and citizenship on both sides of the international border from 1867, when the United States acquired Russia's interests in Alaska, through the end of World War II"--

Author : Joshua S. Haynes
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820353173

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Patrolling the Border by Joshua S. Haynes Pdf

Patrolling the Border focuses on a late eighteenth-century conflict between Creek Indians and Georgians. The conflict was marked by years of seemingly random theft and violence culminating in open war along the Oconee River, the contested border between the two peoples. Joshua S. Haynes argues that the period should be viewed as the struggle of nonstate indigenous people to develop an effective method of resisting colonization. Using database and digital mapping applications, Haynes identifies one such method of resistance: a pattern of Creek raiding best described as politically motivated border patrols. Drawing on precontact ideas and two hundred years of political innovation, border patrols harnessed a popular spirit of unity to defend Creek country. These actions, however, sharpened divisions over political leadership both in Creek country and in the infant United States. In both polities, people struggled over whether local or central governments would call the shots. As a state-like institution, border patrols are the key to understanding seemingly random violence and its long-term political implications, which would include, ultimately, Indian removal.

Author : Nele Lenze,Charlotte Schriwer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317159919

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Converging Regions by Nele Lenze,Charlotte Schriwer Pdf

For over a millennium, Asia and the Middle East have been closely connected through maritime activities and trade, a flourishing relationship that has given rise to new and thriving societies across the Indian Ocean region and Arabia. In recent times, with the global political and economic power shifts of the past decade, significant events in the Middle East and Asia have brought about fundamental global change; the Arab uprisings, the emergence of India and China as powerful global economies, the growing strength of various new Islamic movements, and serious financial uncertainties on a global scale have laid the foundations of a new world order between East and West. The current volume examines this renewed global dynamic, and how it is changing the relationships between the interdependent global communities across Asia and the Middle East. Focussing on the broader aspects of finance and trade between the Middle East and Asia, as well as growing security issues over natural resources and questions of sovereignty, this volume concludes with speculations on the growing importance of Asia and the Middle East in the global setting.

Author : Kornel Chang
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520951549

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Pacific Connections by Kornel Chang Pdf

In the late nineteenth century the borderlands between the United States, the British Empire in Canada, and the Asia-Pacific Rim emerged as a crossroads of the Pacific world. In Pacific Connections, Kornel Chang tells the dramatic stories of the laborers, merchants, smugglers, and activists who crossed these borders into the twentieth century, and the American and British empire-builders who countered them by hardening racial and national lines. But even as settler societies attempted to control the processes of imperial integration, their project fractured under its contradictions. Migrant workers and radical activists pursued a transnational politics through the very networks that made empire possible. Charting the U.S.-Canadian borderlands from above and below, Chang reveals the messiness of imperial formation and the struggles it spawned from multiple locations and through different actors across the Pacific world. Pacific Connections is the winner of the Outstanding Book in History award from the Association for Asian American Studies and is a finalist for the John Hope Franklin Book Prize from the American Studies Association.

Author : Richard R. Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN : 9780195065053

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John Nelson, Merchant Adventurer by Richard R. Johnson Pdf

John Nelson was an entrepreneur born in the mid-seventeenth century--a man, in Richard Johnson's words, "operating ahead of the government and settled society from which he came," who "responded to conventions and conditions derived from several different and often competing cultures." For Nelson, this meant trading out of Boston to the French and Indians of Canada, pursuing his family's dreams of the proprietorship of Nova Scotia, and promoting schemes of espionage and military conquest on both sides of the Atlantic. In the course of a long and adventurous life, Nelson served as middleman between Canada and New England; led an uprising that toppled the royal government of Massachusetts in 1689; and passed years in French prisons, including the Bastille, and then at court in London as a player in the complex European diplomacy of the time. Nelson's career reveals in bold colors the political and economic pressures exerted upon colonial America by the expansion and bitter conflict of European empires--he himself complained of being "crusht between the two Crownes." Yet it also shows how one man fashioned a life as "spy, speculator, multinational merchant, memorialist, politician, prisoner, parent, friend, and gentleman." Gracefully written and widely researched, the book is both a fine example of the new Atlantic history and a vivid recounting of the fortunes of an exceptional individual.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264251847

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OECD Reviews of Risk Management Policies Illicit Trade Converging Criminal Networks by OECD Pdf

This report assesses the magnitude, flows and drivers of illicit trade and the illegal economy including: narcotics, human trafficking, wildlife, sports betting, counterfeit medicines, alcohol and tobacco.

Author : Mike Gasher
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0739113062

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Converging Media, Diverging Politics by Mike Gasher Pdf

What purpose does the news media serve in contemporary North American society? In this collection of essays, experts from both the United States and Canada investigate this question, exploring the effects of media concentration in democratic systems. Specifically, the scholars collected here consider, from a range of vantage points, how corporate and technological convergence in the news industry in the United States and Canada impacts journalism's expressed role as a medium of democratic communication. More generally, and by necessity, Converging Media, Diverging Politics speaks to larger questions about the role that the production and circulation of news and information does, can, and should serve. The editors have gathered an impressive array of critical essays, featuring interesting and well-documented case studies that will prove useful to both students and researchers of communications and media studies.

Author : Ron Miller
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography
ISBN : 9781438148021

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Cleopatra by Ron Miller Pdf

For more than 2,000 years, from plays and poetry to movies and television, ;Cleopatra has been;portrayed as an ambitious woman who used her beauty to seduce powerful men like Julius Caesar and Mark Antony in a ruthless attempt t.

Author : Charles A. Beard,Mary R. Beard
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547668190

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History of the United States by Charles A. Beard,Mary R. Beard Pdf

"History of the United States" is a monumental synthesis of American History subsequently produced by Charles A. Beard and his wife, Mary R. Beard. This book covers a period of more than 350 years, from the beginning of American Colonization to the establishment of The League of Nations in 1920. Charles Austin Beard (1874-1948) was, with Frederick Jackson Turner, one of the most influential American historians of the first half of the 20th century. For a while he was a history professor at Columbia University but his influence came from hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive studies in both history and political science. His works included a radical re-evaluation of the founding fathers of the United States, who he believed were motivated more by economics than by philosophical principles. Mary Ritter Beard (1876-1958) was an American historian and archivist, who played an important role in the women's suffrage movement and was a lifelong advocate of social justice through educational and activist roles in both the labor and woman's rights movements. Contents: The Colonial Period The Great Migration to America The Development of Colonial Nationalism Conflict and Independence The New Course in British Imperial Policy The American Revolution Foundations of the Union and National Politics The Formation of the Constitution The Clash of Political Parties The Jeffersonian Republicans in Power The West and Jacksonian Democracy The Farmers Beyond the Appalachians The Middle Border and the Great West Sectional Conflict and Reconstruction The Civil War and Reconstruction National Growth and World Politics The Political and Economic Evolution of the South Business Enterprise and the Republican Party The Development of the Great West America a World Power(1865-1900) Progressive Democracy and the World War The Spirit of Reform in America The New Political Democracy Industrial Democracy

Author : R.B. MacNichol
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781525561436

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Marines of Quế Sơn by R.B. MacNichol Pdf

In 1967, during the Vietnam War, there is a place of deadly fighting, strange sightings and rumors, and whispers of hidden treasure, it is known as the Quế Sơn Valley. As the war intensifies, a Marine patrol is ambushed, men are wounded; one vanishes without a trace. Another patrol kills a Viet Cong Tax Collector; a curious map is removed from his body. Elsewhere, Marines confront and kill an enemy squad; they discover an unsigned letter written by an American. Later, the Marines kickoff Operation Hillandale; Bravo Company will use explosives to destroy enemy caves inside Hill 270. 350 miles to the south, Ryan, a former Marine turned civilian, is working in Saigon and has fallen in love with Vân, the beautiful daughter of a powerful South Vietnamese general. When the couple decides that Ryan needs her father’s approval to marry and go to America, circumstances plunge him into the middle of the mystery and chaos of Quế Sơn once again; a place he vowed never to revisit—but now he must. A typhoon disrupts his flight out of Saigon. Grounded in Chu Lai, he continues overland under the cover of extreme weather to avoid the enemy. Based in part on real events; interrogators, secret agents, hidden agendas, gritty Marines, ancient treasure, Ryan and Vân, a missing man, a recon team fighting to survive, the general and a mountain full of explosives, all become entangled in this story of mystery, intrigue, adventure and Romance. The volatile outcome is anyone’s guess....

Author : Charles A. Beard, Mary R. Beard
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : United States
ISBN : 9788027239863

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A history of the United States by Charles A. Beard, Mary R. Beard Pdf

Author : Liza Piper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009320870

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When Disease Came to this Country by Liza Piper Pdf

A revisionist history of epidemic disease as experienced by northern Indigenous peoples in present day Canada's Yukon and Northwest Territories between 1860 and 1940. Liza Piper connects the history of epidemics in northern North America to persistent health disparities arising from settler colonialism.

Author : Claudia Wiesner,Anna Björk,Hanna-Mari Kivistö,Katja Mäkinen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351736428

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Shaping Citizenship by Claudia Wiesner,Anna Björk,Hanna-Mari Kivistö,Katja Mäkinen Pdf

Citizenship is a core concept for the social sciences, and citizenship is also frequently interpreted, challenged and contested in different political arenas. Shaping Citizenship explores how the concept is debated and contested, defined and redefined, used and constructed by different agents, at different times, and with regard to both theory and practice. The book uses a reflexive and constructivist perspective on the concept of citizenship that draws on the theory and methodology of conceptual history. This approach enables a panorama of politically important readings on citizenship that provide an interdisciplinary perspective and help to transcend narrow and simplified views on citizenship. The three parts of the book focus respectively on theories, debates and practices of citizenship. In the chapters, constructions and struggles related to citizenship are approached by experts from different fields. Thematically the chapters focus on political representation, migration, internationalization, sub-and transnationalization as well as the Europeanisation of citizenship. An indispensable read to scholars and students, Shaping Citizenship presents new ways to study the conceptual changes, struggles and debates related to core dimensions of this ever-evolving concept.

Author : Louise A. Breen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136596735

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Converging Worlds by Louise A. Breen Pdf

Providing a survey of colonial American history both regionally broad and "Atlantic" in coverage, Converging Worlds presents the most recent research in an accessible manner for undergraduate students. With chapters written by top-notch scholars, Converging Worlds is unique in providing not only a comprehensive chronological approach to colonial history with attention to thematic details, but a window into the relevant historiography. Each historian also selected several documents to accompany their chapter, found in the companion primary source reader. Converging Worlds: Communities and Cultures in Colonial America includes: timelines tailored for every chapter chapter summaries discussion questions lists of further reading, introducing students to specialist literature fifty illustrations. Key topics discussed include: French, Spanish, and Native American experiences regional areas such as the Midwest and Southwest religion including missions, witchcraft, and Protestants the experience of women and families. With its synthesis of both broad time periods and specific themes, Converging Worlds is ideal for students of the colonial period, and provides a fascinating glimpse into the diverse foundations of America. For additional information and classroom resources please visit the Converging Worlds companion website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415964999.