Empire In Transition

Author : Alfred Hower
Publisher : Library Press at Uf
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Portugal
ISBN : 1947372742

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Empire in Transition by Alfred Hower Pdf

The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida's long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and domestic. They examine topics critical to the area such as travel, migration, economic opportunity, and tourism. They look at the growth of Florida and the Caribbean and the attendant pressures on the environment, culture, urban development, and the movement of peoples, both forced and voluntary. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series gathers the rich data available in these architectural, archaeological, cultural, and historical works, as well as the travelogues and naturalists' sketches of the area in prior to the twentieth century, making it accessible for scholars and the general public alike. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series is made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, under the Humanities Open Books program.

Author : Walter Russell Mead
Publisher : Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015013404176

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Mortal Splendor by Walter Russell Mead Pdf

"Walter Russell Mead describes the rise of America's liberal world empire, its golden years from World War II until the mid 1960s, and its continuing decline since then. He puts the American empire in the context of past empires - Athenian, Roman, British - and shows that decline is inevitable, but also that we can choose the shape of our postimperial future. He particularly examines the unsuccessful attempts of our last four administrations to deal with issues arising from the decline of the American Empire."--Book Jacket.

Author : Michael Grant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317972105

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The Antonines by Michael Grant Pdf

The Antonines - Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Verus and Commodus - played a crucial part in the development of the Roman empire, controlling its huge machine for half a century of its most testing period. Edward Gibbon observed that the epoch of the Antonines, the 2nd century A.D., was the happiest period the world had ever known. In this lucid, authoritative survey, Michael Grant re-examines Gibbon's statement, and gives his own magisterial account of how the lives of the emperors and the art, literature, architecture and overall social condition under the Antonines represented an `age of transition'. The Antonines is essential reading for anyone who is interested in ancient history, as well as for all students and teachers of the subject.

Author : Albert Viton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105080781946

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Great Britain, an Empire in Transition by Albert Viton Pdf

Selected bibliography: p. 339-343.

Author : Priya Jaikumar
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0822337932

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Cinema at the End of Empire by Priya Jaikumar Pdf

DIVHistory of the relationship between government regulation of the film industry in the UK and the the developing film industry in India between the 1920s and 1940s./div

Author : Joseph Esherick,Hasan Kayalı,Eric Van Young
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0742540316

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Empire to Nation by Joseph Esherick,Hasan Kayalı,Eric Van Young Pdf

Following a hit and run that injures his son, John Spector is shocked when the driver comes forward to confess the accident was planned and that John made the arrangements. Upset by the suggestion, he embarks on a quest that will take him through the bizarre underbelly of the city in search of the truth. Even when faced with demons bent on stopping him, haunted by dreams of a man he's never met or sidelined by concerns for his mental health, John remains unshakable. Only after his path leads to the philanthropist Charles Dapper does his determination waver, for this is when he must make an extraordinary self sacrifice to realize his goal or risk losing everything.

Author : Owen Stanwood
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812205480

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The Empire Reformed by Owen Stanwood Pdf

The Empire Reformed tells the story of a forgotten revolution in English America—a revolution that created not a new nation but a new kind of transatlantic empire. During the seventeenth century, England's American colonies were remote, disorganized outposts with reputations for political turmoil. Colonial subjects rebelled against authority with stunning regularity, culminating in uprisings that toppled colonial governments in the wake of England's "Glorious Revolution" in 1688-89. Nonetheless, after this crisis authorities in both England and the colonies successfully rebuilt the empire, providing the cornerstone of the great global power that would conquer much of the continent over the following century. In The Empire Reformed historian Owen Stanwood illustrates this transition in a narrative that moves from Boston to London to Barbados and Bermuda. He demonstrates not only how the colonies fit into the empire but how imperial politics reflected—and influenced—changing power dynamics in England and Europe during the late 1600s. In particular, Stanwood reveals how the language of Catholic conspiracies informed most colonists' understanding of politics, serving first as the catalyst of rebellions against authority, but later as an ideological glue that held the disparate empire together. In the wake of the Glorious Revolution imperial leaders and colonial subjects began to define the British empire as a potent Protestant union that would save America from the designs of French "papists" and their "savage" Indian allies. By the eighteenth century, British Americans had become proud imperialists, committed to the project of expanding British power in the Americas.

Author : E. Badian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0806128631

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Transitions to Empire by E. Badian Pdf

During the period 360-146 B.C., the Greco-Roman world underwent the transition from independent city states and small regional powers to the large and potent empires of the Hellenistic age. The essays in this volume consider various aspects of this central political transformation. The contributors to the volume are students or close working colleagues of Ernst Badian, perhaps the greatest living authority on the period under discussion. Included in the volume is a complete bibliography of Badian's publications. The broadly based yet coherent theme -- the momentous changes in systems of power and authority in the ancient Mediterranean world -- makes Transitions to Empire an important contribution to Greco-Roman scholarship and a fitting tribute to a scholar whose work has had such a far-reaching influence on the field of ancient history.

Author : Ian Saxine
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479832125

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Properties of Empire by Ian Saxine Pdf

A fascinating history of a contested frontier, where struggles over landownership brought Native Americans and English colonists together in surprising ways to preserve Indigenous territory. Properties of Empire shows the dynamic relationship between Native and English systems of property on the turbulent edge of Britain’s empire, and how so many colonists came to believe their prosperity depended on acknowledging Indigenous land rights. As absentee land speculators and hardscrabble colonists squabbled over conflicting visions for the frontier, Wabanaki Indians’ unity allowed them to forcefully project their own interpretations of often poorly remembered old land deeds and treaties. The result was the creation of a system of property in Maine that defied English law, and preserved Native power and territory. Eventually, ordinary colonists, dissident speculators, and grasping officials succeeded in undermining and finally destroying this arrangement, a process that took place in councils and courtrooms, in taverns and treaties, and on battlefields. Properties of Empire challenges assumptions about the relationship between Indigenous and imperial property creation in early America, as well as the fixed nature of Indian “sales” of land, revealing the existence of a prolonged struggle to re-interpret seventeenth-century land transactions and treaties well into the eighteenth century. The ongoing struggle to construct a commonly agreed-upon culture of landownership shaped diplomacy, imperial administration, and matters of colonial law in powerful ways, and its legacy remains with us today.

Author : Paul Miller,Claire Morelon
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789200232

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Embers of Empire by Paul Miller,Claire Morelon Pdf

The collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy at the end of World War I ushered in a period of radical change for East-Central European political structures and national identities. Yet this transformed landscape inevitably still bore the traces of its imperial past. Breaking with traditional histories that take 1918 as a strict line of demarcation, this collection focuses on the complexities that attended the transition from the Habsburg Empire to its successor states. In so doing, it produces new and more nuanced insights into the persistence and effectiveness of imperial institutions, as well as the sources of instability in the newly formed nation-states.

Author : Alfred Hower,Richard A. Preto-Rodas
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 0813007909

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Empire in Transition by Alfred Hower,Richard A. Preto-Rodas Pdf

Author : Ken'ichi Gotō
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9971692813

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Tensions of Empire by Ken'ichi Gotō Pdf

Author : Ulrike Freitag,Nelida Fuccaro,Claudia Ghrawi,Nora Lafi
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782385844

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Urban Violence in the Middle East by Ulrike Freitag,Nelida Fuccaro,Claudia Ghrawi,Nora Lafi Pdf

Covering a period from the late eighteenth century to today, this volume explores the phenomenon of urban violence in order to unveil general developments and historical specificities in a variety of Middle Eastern contexts. By situating incidents in particular processes and conflicts, the case studies seek to counter notions of a violent Middle East in order to foster a new understanding of violence beyond that of a meaningless and destructive social and political act. Contributions explore processes sparked by the transition from empires — Ottoman and Qajar, but also European — to the formation of nation states, and the resulting changes in cityscapes throughout the region.

Author : Sarah Hogan
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781503606135

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Other Englands by Sarah Hogan Pdf

Other Englands examines the rise of the early English utopia in the context of emergent capitalism. Above all, it asserts that this literary genre was always already an expression of social crisis and economic transition, a context refracted in the origin stories and imagined geographies common to its early modern form. Beginning with the paradigmatic popular utopias of Thomas More and Francis Bacon but attentive to non-canonical examples from the margins of the tradition, the study charts a shifting and, by the time of the English Revolution, self-critical effort to think communities in dynamic socio-spatial forms. Arguing that early utopias have been widely misunderstood and maligned as static, finished polities, Sarah Hogan makes the case that utopian literature offered readers and writers a transformational and transitional social imaginary. She shows how a genre associated with imagining systemic alternatives both contested and contributed to the ideological construction of capitalist imperialism. In the early English utopia, she finds both a precursor to the Enlightenment discourse of political economy and another historical perspective on the beginnings and enduring conflicts of global capital.

Author : Ariel Salzmann
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9004108874

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Tocqueville in the Ottoman Empire by Ariel Salzmann Pdf

Based on archival research, this work examines the Ottoman ancien regime. The author argues that the success of the regime was due to the articulation of a complex financial network revolving around central state elite investments and an Istanbul-based and supervised banking system.