European Empires From Conquest To Collapse 1815 1960

Author : V.G. Kiernan
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781804291092

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European Empires from Conquest to Collapse, 1815-1960 by V.G. Kiernan Pdf

New edition of a trail-blazing history of imperial warfare European Empires from Conquest to Collapse is a vivid anticolonial reckoning with the history of imperial warfare. Global in scope, it deftly surveys the fighting forces and military engagements of the Great Powers, from the British in India to the scramble for Africa. Victor Kiernan lays bare the doctrines and realities of colonial fighting, dispelling official legends. Europe often boasted that coloni- alism was ‘civilised’, but the facts show it could be barbaric. Kiernan traces how guerrilla insurgency against colonial oppression developed into one of the most sophisticated branches of the art of war. With a foreword by Tariq Ali, author of Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes.

Author : Victor G. Kiernan
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781804291085

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European Empires from Conquest to Collapse, 1815-1960 by Victor G. Kiernan Pdf

European Empires from Conquest to Collapse is a vivid anticolonial reckoning with the history of imperial warfare. Global in scope, it deftly surveys the fighting forces and military engagements of the Great Powers, from the British in India to the scramble for Africa. Victor Kiernan lays bare the doctrines and realities of colonial fighting, dispelling official legends. Europe often boasted that coloni- alism was 'civilised', but the facts show it could be barbaric. Kiernan traces how guerrilla insurgency against colonial oppression developed into one of the most sophisticated branches of the art of war. With a foreword by Tariq Ali, author of Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes.

Author : Victor Gordon Kiernan
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005291286

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From Conquest to Collapse by Victor Gordon Kiernan Pdf

Author : Victor Gordon Kiernan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0773517677

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Colonial Empires and Armies, 1815-1960 by Victor Gordon Kiernan Pdf

Beginning with the post-Napoleonic era, this volume presents all the major episodes of an often dramatic story in which the military agents of European imperialism met the peoples of the rest of the world in armed conflict.

Author : Victor Gordon Kiernan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01
Category : Europe
ISBN : 0773517669

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Colonial Empires and Armies, 1815-1960 by Victor Gordon Kiernan Pdf

Beginning with the post-Napoleonic era, Colonial Empires and Armies presents the dramatic story of Europe's empire building, in which the military agents of European imperialism met the peoples of the rest of the world in armed conflict.

Author : Chris Cook,John Stevenson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Europe
ISBN : 0415345820

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The Routledge Companion to European History Since 1763 by Chris Cook,John Stevenson Pdf

The Routledge Companion to European History since 1763 is a compact and highly accessible work of reference, with a fully comprehensive glossary, a biographical section, a thorough bibliography and informative maps.

Author : H. L. Wesseling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317895060

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The European Colonial Empires by H. L. Wesseling Pdf

The nineteenth century was Europe's colonial century. At the beginning of the period, the only colonial empire that existed was the British Empire. By the end of the century the situation was completely different and Europe's colonial possessions had come to constitute a large part of the world. The French had acquired an immense colonial empire and the Dutch had extended their control over Indonesia. Germany and Italy, unified only in the latter half of the century, had claimed their place under the sun. Even the tiny Kingdom of Belgium had acquired a huge colonial territory in Africa: the Belgian Congo. This is the first book to describe the whole process of colonization from conquest to pacification, and to analyze it in the light of administrative, cultural and economic developments. The European Colonial Empires discusses a uniquely long period instead of merely focussing on the shorter, accepted age of classical imperialism. Wesseling argues that European colonial expansion can be understood only by putting it into this long-term perspective and by comparing the differences between the colonies in Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Caribbean. This book redresses the balance that privileges the British colonial and imperial experience. It emphasizes the continental European experience while relating developments to the British enterprise.

Author : P. Preston
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137345684

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After the Empires by P. Preston Pdf

The shift to the modern world in East Asia was accomplished in part via the experience of colonial rule in the late nineteenth century. Following imperial crisis in the 1930s and 1940s, independent nation states formed from which the political structure of East Asia is based today.

Author : Eric Hobsbawm
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780297865292

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Age Of Empire: 1875-1914 by Eric Hobsbawm Pdf

THE AGE OF EMPIRE is a book about the strange death of the nineteenth century, the world made by and for liberal middle classes in the name of universal progress and civilisation. It is about hopes realised which turned into fears: an era of unparalleled peace engendering an era of unparalleled war; revolt and revolution emerging on the outskirts of society; a time of profound identity crisis for bourgeois classes, among new and sudden mass labour movements which rejected capitalism and new middle classes which rejected liberalism. It is about world empires built and held with almost contemptuous ease by small bodies of Europeans which were to last barely a human lifetime, and a European domination of world history, which was never more confident than at the moment it was about to disappear for ever. It is about Queen Victoria, Madame Curie and the Kodak Girl, and the novel social world of cloth caps, golf clubs and brassieres, about Nietzsche, Carnegie, William Morris and Dreyfus, about politically ineffective terrorists, one of whom, to his and everyone's surprise, started a world war. With the AGE OF EMPIRE, Eric Hobsbawm, Britain's leading historian of the left, brings to a dazzling climax his brilliant interpretative history of 'the long nineteenth century'.

Author : Chris Cook,John Stevenson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134281862

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The Routledge Companion to Modern European History since 1763 by Chris Cook,John Stevenson Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Modern European History since 1763 is a compact and highly accessible work of reference covering the broad sweep of events from the last days of the ancient regime to the ending of the Cold War, and from the reshaping of Eastern Europe to the radical expansion of the European Union in 2004. Within the broad coverage of this outstanding volume, particular attention is given to subjects such as: the era of the Enlightened Despots the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era in France, and the revolutions of 1848 nationalism and imperialism, and the retreat from Empire the First World War, the rise of the European dictators, the coming of the Second World War, the Holocaust, and the post-war development of Europe the Cold War, the Soviet Union and its break up the protest and upheavals of the 1960s, as well as social issues such as the rise of the welfare state, and the changing place of women in society throughout the period. With a fully comprehensive glossary, a biographical section, a thorough bibliography and informative maps, this volume is the indispensable companion for all those who study modern European history.

Author : Harold E. Raugh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1025 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351147583

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The British Army 1815-1914 by Harold E. Raugh Pdf

This collection of essays examines the evolution of the British Army during the century-long Pax Britannica, from the time Wellington considered its soldiers 'the scum of the earth' to the height of the imperial epoch, when they were highly-respected 'soldiers of the Queen'. The British Army during this period was a microcosm and reflection of the larger British society. As a result, this study of the British Army focuses on its character and composition, its officers and men, efforts to improve its efficiency and effectiveness and its role and performance on active service while an instrument of British Government policy.

Author : Muriel E. Chamberlain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317897439

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Longman Companion to European Decolonisation in the Twentieth Century by Muriel E. Chamberlain Pdf

This new Companion brings together, in one single volume, all the essential facts and figures relating to European decolonisation in the twentieth century. Professor Chamberlain has taken each European empire in turn (the British, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Belgian and Italian) and for each one she has provided a detailed chronology of the process of decolonisation in the individual states.

Author : Alan G. Jamieson
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780236889

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Faith and Sword by Alan G. Jamieson Pdf

With the recent surge in terrorist acts and military confrontations, as well as ever-strengthening fundamentalist ideologies, the Christian–Muslim divide is perhaps more visible than ever—but it is not new. Alan G. Jamieson explores here the long and bloody history of the Christian–Muslim conflict, revealing in his concise yet comprehensive study how deeply this ancient divide is interwoven with crucial events in world history. Faith and Sword opens with the tumultuous first centuries of the conflict, examining the religious precepts that framed clashes between Christians and Muslims and that ultimately fueled the legendary Crusades. Traversing the full breadth of the Arab lands and Christendom, Jamieson chronicles the turbulent saga from the Arab conquests of the seventh century to the rise of the powerful Ottoman Empire and its fall at the end of World War I. He then explores the complex dynamics that emerged later in the twentieth century, as Christendom was transformed into the secular West and Islamic nations overthrew European colonialism to establish governments straddling modernity and religiosity. From the 1979 Iranian revolution to the Lebanon hostage crisis to—in this new expanded edition—the recent wars in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, Faith and Sword reveals the essence of this enduring struggle and its consequences.

Author : Stuart Anderson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228021599

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Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires by Stuart Anderson Pdf

The word "pharmacopoeia" has come to have many meanings, although it is commonly understood to be a book describing approved compositions and standards for drugs. In 1813 the Royal College of Physicians of London considered a proposal to develop an imperial British pharmacopoeia – at a time when separate official pharmacopoeias existed for England, Scotland, and Ireland. A unified British pharmacopoeia was published in 1864, and by 1914 it was considered suitable for the whole Empire. Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires traces the 350-year development of officially sanctioned pharmacopoeias across the British Empire, first from local to national pharmacopoeias, and later to a standardized pharmacopoeia that would apply throughout Britain’s imperial world. The evolution of British pharmacopoeias and the professionalization of medicine saw developments including a transition from Galenic principles to germ theory, and a shift from plant-based to chemical medicines. While other colonial powers in Europe usually imposed metropolitan pharmacopoeias across their colonies, Britain consulted with practitioners throughout its Empire. As the scope of the pharmacopoeia widened, the process of agreeing upon drug standardization became more complex and fraught. A wide range of issues was exposed, from bioprospecting and the inclusion of indigenous medicines in pharmacopoeias, to adulteration and demands for the substitution of pharmacopoeial drugs with locally available ones. Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires uses the evolution of an imperial pharmacopoeia in Britain as a vehicle for exploring the hegemonic power of European colonial powers in the medical field, and the meaning of pharmacopoeia more broadly.

Author : Andrew Porter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349105441

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European Imperialism, 1860-1914 by Andrew Porter Pdf

This study surveys the growth of European intervention outside Europe between 1860 and 1914. It treats its subject, 'imperialism', as a process of increasing contact, influence and control, rather than as the nature and consequences of colonial rule. The problems of defining 'imperialism' are considered alongside various analytical approaches to the term. In examining the controversial historiographical literature surrounding this subject, the book criticises particular explanations, and introduces readers to some of the new directions in research and inquiry currently being explored by historians.