Empire State And Society

Author : Jamie L. Bronstein,Andrew T. Harris
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781405181808

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EMPIRE, STATE, AND SOCIETY “This book captures the broad-sweep of modern British history. Bronstein and Harris’s narrative is distinguished by its comprehensive coverage, readability, and sure judgment. It is an excellent book.” James Epstein, Vanderbilt University “This is a well-structured and gracefully written textbook that undergraduates at American universities and colleges should find highly accessible. It integrates recent scholarly trends into a compelling narrative that brings together metropolitan and imperial themes. These themes are illuminated by well-chosen anecdotes that make them come alive. Bronstein and Harris have provided an excellent introduction to modern Britain and its Empire, and one that deserves a wide readership.” Phil Harling, University of Kentucky In the nineteenth century, Great Britain was a world-recognized superpower. Tremendous economic growth fostered a daunting formal empire, global networks of trade and investment, and a formidable military. By the late twentieth century this position of dominance had eroded significantly under the stress of two world wars, rising nationalist movements, shifting geopolitics, and the transformation to a post-industrial economy. As Britain adjusts to her new place in the post-colonial world, Empire, State, and Society assesses the external and internal forces behind these transformations. The authors draw on the most recent scholarship to give due importance to social, economic, and cultural changes as well as politics and international diplomacy. Divided into chapters both chronologically and thematically, Empire, State, and Society enables detailed exploration of issues such as race, gender, religion, and the environment. In doing so, the book provides an accessible, comprehensive, and balanced introduction to British history.

Author : Jamie L. Bronstein,Andrew T. Harris
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781405181815

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EMPIRE, STATE, AND SOCIETY “This book captures the broad-sweep of modern British history. Bronstein and Harris’s narrative is distinguished by its comprehensive coverage, readability, and sure judgment. It is an excellent book.” James Epstein, Vanderbilt University “This is a well-structured and gracefully written textbook that undergraduates at American universities and colleges should find highly accessible. It integrates recent scholarly trends into a compelling narrative that brings together metropolitan and imperial themes. These themes are illuminated by well-chosen anecdotes that make them come alive. Bronstein and Harris have provided an excellent introduction to modern Britain and its Empire, and one that deserves a wide readership.” Phil Harling, University of Kentucky In the nineteenth century, Great Britain was a world-recognized superpower. Tremendous economic growth fostered a daunting formal empire, global networks of trade and investment, and a formidable military. By the late twentieth century this position of dominance had eroded significantly under the stress of two world wars, rising nationalist movements, shifting geopolitics, and the transformation to a post-industrial economy. As Britain adjusts to her new place in the post-colonial world, Empire, State, and Society assesses the external and internal forces behind these transformations. The authors draw on the most recent scholarship to give due importance to social, economic, and cultural changes as well as politics and international diplomacy. Divided into chapters both chronologically and thematically, Empire, State, and Society enables detailed exploration of issues such as race, gender, religion, and the environment. In doing so, the book provides an accessible, comprehensive, and balanced introduction to British history.

Author : Milton Martin Klein
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 1102 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0801489911

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The Empire State by Milton Martin Klein Pdf

Readers from the Big Apple to Buffalo and beyond will find "The Empire State"--which provides equal coverage to "upstate" and "downstate" events and people--satisfying and informative reading. A rich resource, it chronicles the state through centuries of change.

Author : Sons of the American Revolution. Empire State Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:13988851

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Empire State Society, Sons of the American Revolution by Sons of the American Revolution. Empire State Society Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Patriotism
ISBN : NYPL:33433081885117

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Proceedings of the Annual Banquet of the Empire State Society, Sons of the American Revolution by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sons of the American Revolution. Empire State Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : United States
ISBN : OCLC:13901917

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Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Banquet of the Empire State Society, Sons of the American Revolution by Sons of the American Revolution. Empire State Society Pdf

Author : John Tauranac
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780801471094

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The Empire State Building by John Tauranac Pdf

The Empire State Building is the landmark book on one of the world’s most notable landmarks. Since its publication in 1995, John Tauranac’s book, focused on the inception and construction of the building, has stood as the most comprehensive account of the structure. Moreover, it is far more than a work in architectural history; Tauranac tells a larger story of the politics of urban development in and through the interwar years. In a new epilogue to the Cornell edition, Tauranac highlights the continuing resonance and influence of the Empire State Building in the rapidly changing post-9/11 cityscape.

Author : Gauvin Alexander Bailey
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780773553767

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Architecture and Urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire by Gauvin Alexander Bailey Pdf

Spanning from the West African coast to the Canadian prairies and south to Louisiana, the Caribbean, and Guiana, France's Atlantic empire was one of the largest political entities in the Western Hemisphere. Yet despite France's status as a nation at the forefront of architecture and the structures and designs from this period that still remain, its colonial building program has never been considered on a hemispheric scale. Drawing from hundreds of plans, drawings, photographic field surveys, and extensive archival sources, Architecture and Urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire focuses on the French state's and the Catholic Church's ideals and motivations for their urban and architectural projects in the Americas. In vibrant detail, Gauvin Alexander Bailey recreates a world that has been largely destroyed by wars, natural disasters, and fires – from Cap-François (now Cap-Haïtien), which once boasted palaces in the styles of Louis XV and formal gardens patterned after Versailles, to failed utopian cities like Kourou in Guiana. Vividly illustrated with examples of grand buildings, churches, and gardens, as well as simple houses and cottages, this volume also brings to life the architects who built these structures, not only French military engineers and white civilian builders, but also the free people of colour and slaves who contributed so much to the tropical colonies. Taking readers on a historical tour through the striking landmarks of the French colonial landscape, Architecture and Urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire presents a sweeping panorama of an entire hemisphere of architecture and its legacy.

Author : M. Alper Yalçinkaya
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226184203

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Learned Patriots by M. Alper Yalçinkaya Pdf

Like many other states, the 19th century was a period of coming to grips with the growing domination of the world by the 'Great Powers' for the Ottoman Empire. Many Muslim Ottoman elites attributed European 'ascendance' to the new sciences that had developed in Europe, and a long and multi-dimensional debate on the nature, benefits, and potential dangers of science ensued. This analysis of this debate is not based on assumptions characteristic of studies on modernisation and Westernisation, arguing that for Muslim Ottomans the debate on science was in essence a debate on the representatives of science.

Author : Brian Phillips Murphy
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812247169

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Building the Empire State by Brian Phillips Murphy Pdf

Focusing on the state of New York, home to the first American banks, utilities, canals, and transportation infrastructure projects, Building the Empire State examines the origins of American capitalism by tracing how and why business corporations were first introduced into the economy of the early republic.

Author : Sons of the American Revolution. Empire State Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1912*
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:13944609

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Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution by Sons of the American Revolution. Empire State Society Pdf

Author : Haim Gerber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Civil society
ISBN : 0754669858

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State and Society in the Ottoman Empire by Haim Gerber Pdf

This book has three main themes: the socio-economic history of Turkish society in the 17th-18th centuries; the outcome of the Tanzimat (Reforms) in the province of Jerusalem, as an example of the whole phenomenon; and the historical origins of Turkish and Arab identities leading to the modern phenomenon of nationalism. Many of the studies are based on archival research, and the documents give a new picture of the issues involved. Thus, women were much more involved in the public arena and in economic life of the city that formerly thought; the urban family at this time was much smaller and nuclear-like, on the whole much more modern looking than anticipated. In the same way, Turkish society was far from being despotically oppressed by the Ottoman centre, with several institutions existing in it that gave substance to the term civil society. In the context of the 19th century it was found that, judging by the case of the province of Jerusalem, the final phase of the Tanzimat really tipped the balance in favour of the success of this whole movement of Reform: Ottoman society and Ottoman state became much more orderly and at ease with themselves than before, or at least than the stormy decades of the early 19th century. The final studies show that the Ottoman period and the structure of the Ottoman state, more properly, exerted much influence on the forms of nationalism that developed in the Middle East after the Ottoman downfall.

Author : Sons of the American Revolution. Empire State Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1930*
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:13923147

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The Empire State Society and the New York Chapter Invite You to Visit Their New York Headquarters by Sons of the American Revolution. Empire State Society Pdf

Author : Sons of the American Revolution. Empire State Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:13907792

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Twenty-seventh Annual Banquet by Sons of the American Revolution. Empire State Society Pdf

Author : Roeland Goorts
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789462701311

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War, State, and Society in Liège by Roeland Goorts Pdf

Small power diplomacy in seventeenth century Europe War, State and Society in Liège is a fascinating case study of the consequences of war in the Prince-Bishopric of Liège and touches upon wider issues in early modern history, such as small power diplomacy in the seventeenth century and during the Nine Years’ War. For centuries, the small semi-independent Holy Roman Principality of Liège succeeded in preserving a non-belligerent role in European conflicts. During the Nine Years’ War (1688–1697), however, Liège’s leaders had to abolish the practice of neutrality. For the first time in its early modern history, the Prince-Bishopric had to raise a regular army, reconstruct ruined defence structures, and supply army contributions in both money and material. The issues under discussion in War, State and Society in Liège offer the reader insight into how Liège politically protected its powerful institutions and how the local elite tried to influence the interplay between domestic and external diplomatic relationships.