Growing In The Shadow Of An Empire

Author : Peter Fibiger Bang,C. A. Bayly,Walter Scheidel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1353 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197532782

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The Oxford World History of Empire by Peter Fibiger Bang,C. A. Bayly,Walter Scheidel Pdf

This is the first world history of empire, reaching from the third millennium BCE to the present. By combining synthetic surveys, thematic comparative essays, and numerous chapters on specific empires, its two volumes provide unparalleled coverage of imperialism throughout history and across continents, from Asia to Europe and from Africa to the Americas. Only a few decades ago empire was believed to be a thing of the past; now it is clear that it has been and remains one of the most enduring forms of political organization and power. We cannot understand the dynamics and resilience of empire without moving decisively beyond the study of individual cases or particular periods, such as the relatively short age of European colonialism. The history of empire, as these volumes amply demonstrate, needs to be drawn on the much broader canvas of global history. Volume Two: The History of Empires tracks the protean history of political domination from the very beginnings of state formation in the Bronze Age up to the present. Case studies deal with the full range of the historical experience of empire, from the realms of the Achaemenids and Asoka to the empires of Mali and Songhay, and from ancient Rome and China to the Mughals, American settler colonialism, and the Soviet Union. Forty-five chapters detailing the history of individual empires are tied together by a set of global synthesizing surveys that structure the world history of empire into eight chronological phases.

Author : Brooke Renee
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781639850983

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Blood Claws Rising by Brooke Renee Pdf

The shadow grows; the claws are out. It is the twenty-fourth century, and humanity has successfully breached beyond their limited solar system to colonize much of the known galaxy. Mostly located within the Orion Arm of the Milky Way, humanity has ventured into a prosperous and ever-expanding era of exploration and discovery, with several other new races joining one of powers in humanity's growing sphere of influence, either willingly or by force. However, mankind cannot escape the shadow of conflict that dared to follow them out beyond the stars. In the immediate aftermath of the Earthborn War between two galactic superpowers--the oppressive far-reaching-based Hagorian Alliance and the more egalitarian-minded and Earth-based Praetorian League--one young girl rises from the ashes of chaos to break the yoke of oppression that the tyrannical Alliance has leaned upon to enforce its rule over its section of the cosmos. While other nations exist, they are constantly and often caught in the crossfire between the Alliance and the League. The Alliance, based at the trailing ends of the Orion Arm, valued slavery, fear, and subjugation to control and rule its people. The League, while not ideal, was far more egalitarian if not apathetic. But for citizens of the Alliance, many had had enough. One girl was chosen by fate to be the leader of these dissidents whom the Alliance would classify as militant rebels outright, viewing them as little more than vermin that need to be extinguished. From being an owned slave to a warrior and rebel leader, to empress and conqueror, this is part of the legacy that Ava'kra hopes to forge, but in the brutal maelstrom of seemingly unending war, can she? When facing betrayal at every turn, fighting outnumbered and outmaneuvered, can a young girl forge a new galactic nation free of oppression and live to tell the tale?

Author : Thomas J. Barfield
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691181639

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Shadow Empires by Thomas J. Barfield Pdf

An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern times The world’s first great empires established by the ancient Persians, Chinese, and Romans are well known, but not the empires that emerged on their margins in response to them over the course of 2,500 years. These counterempires or shadow empires, which changed the course of history, include the imperial nomad confederacies that arose in Mongolia and extorted resources from China rather than attempting to conquer it, as well as maritime empires such as ancient Athens that controlled trade without seeking territorial hegemony. In Shadow Empires, Thomas Barfield identifies seven kinds of counterempire and explores their rise, politics, economics, and longevity. What all these counterempires had in common was their interactions with existing empires that created the conditions for their development. When highly successful, these counterempires left the shadows to become the world’s largest empires—for example, those of the medieval Muslim Arabs and of the Mongol heirs of Chinggis Khan. Three former shadow empires—Manchu Qing China, Tsarist Russia, and British India—made this transformation in the late eighteenth century and came to rule most of Eurasia. However, the DNA of their origins endured in their unique ruling strategies. Indeed, world powers still use these strategies today, long after their roots in shadow empires have been forgotten. Looking afresh at the histories of important types of empires that are often ignored, Shadow Empires provides an original account of empire formation from the ancient world to the early modern period.

Author : Jon Mac
Publisher : Ocleno
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Freedom Formula: How To Grow An Ecommerce Empire by Jon Mac Pdf

Whether you're trying to break free from the 9-5 grind, start up your online business or scale an existing one, this book will teach you the unconventional formula for creating, growing, and achieving massive success with Ecommerce.

Author : J.R.Robbins
Publisher : Booktango
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781468973518

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Shadow Empire by J.R.Robbins Pdf

The Varik Noir was foretold, prophesied by all creatures within the natural realms of man. Foretold by the wizards and worshiped by the priest. But what they have foretold is not exactly what is to come. Stirring within the realms of Thia the creature comes into being, though what he sees and witnesses bring him suffering and pain. Driven by the source, the collective energy of all things in existence at the smallest point of creation, the Varik Noir sets out on a brutal quest of self-discovery and learning though soon finds him caught up in the wars of man. Can he maintain the purity in which the prophecy’s demand of him or shall he fall to much sinister forces at work.

Author : Giuseppe De Luca,Gaetano Sabatini
Publisher : FrancoAngeli
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9788856848625

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Growing in the Shadow of an Empire by Giuseppe De Luca,Gaetano Sabatini Pdf

Author : Vaclav Smil
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780262354523

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Growth by Vaclav Smil Pdf

A systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations. Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes the capabilities of our extraordinarily large brains and the fortunes of our economies. Growth is manifested in annual increments of continental crust, a rising gross domestic product, a child's growth chart, the spread of cancerous cells. In this magisterial book, Vaclav Smil offers systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations. Smil takes readers from bacterial invasions through animal metabolisms to megacities and the global economy. He begins with organisms whose mature sizes range from microscopic to enormous, looking at disease-causing microbes, the cultivation of staple crops, and human growth from infancy to adulthood. He examines the growth of energy conversions and man-made objects that enable economic activities—developments that have been essential to civilization. Finally, he looks at growth in complex systems, beginning with the growth of human populations and proceeding to the growth of cities. He considers the challenges of tracing the growth of empires and civilizations, explaining that we can chart the growth of organisms across individual and evolutionary time, but that the progress of societies and economies, not so linear, encompasses both decline and renewal. The trajectory of modern civilization, driven by competing imperatives of material growth and biospheric limits, Smil tells us, remains uncertain.

Author : Sharron Gu
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786490936

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Language and Culture in the Growth of Imperialism by Sharron Gu Pdf

Political science interpretations of international relations tend to focus on abstract terms of economic interest, domination, rights and justice. Trapped within this limited horizon, the discipline fails to explain why nations of similar economic structure would have variant ideas for their foreign policies, and why nations with different economic structures and ideologies could develop a similar global posture during certain periods of their histories. This innovative study examines imperialism from a cultural and linguistic perspective, portraying the rise and fall of ancient Greek, Roman, medieval Islamic, modern British, Russian and American empires as a part of the natural life of world civilizations. As these imperial cultures matured through centuries of literary accumulation and interaction with other cultures, they finally found their confidence on the world stage and transitioned from an aggressive policy towards others to a more tolerant one.

Author : Lynn Hollen Lees
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107038400

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Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects by Lynn Hollen Lees Pdf

This is an innovative study of how British Colonial rule and society in Malayan towns and plantations transformed immigrants into British subjects.

Author : Pierpaolo Barbieri
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674728851

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Hitler's Shadow Empire by Pierpaolo Barbieri Pdf

The Nazis provided Franco’s Nationalists with planes, armaments, and tanks in their civil war against the Communists but behind this largesse was a Faustian bargain. Pierpaolo Barbieri makes a convincing case that the Nazis hoped to establish an economic empire in Europe, and in Spain they tested the tactics intended for future subject territories.

Author : Mr1Gonzalez
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781728312972

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The Goal by Mr1Gonzalez Pdf

The Goal is made up of three stories that include the Book of Peace, the Book of Justice, and the Book of Order. The collection was designed in a way that it could be read in different arrangements to establish a sense of freedom for the reader. However, it is recommended to read the books in the sequence prioritized by the reader’s personal values.

Author : Michael P. Collinson
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Agricultural systems
ISBN : 9251043116

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A History of Farming Systems Research by Michael P. Collinson Pdf

This book provides a detailed history of farming systems research (FSR). While it includes the application of FSR to developed country agriculture, its main focus is on FSR in its original role, with small scale, resource-poor farmers in less developed countries. There are some 40 contributions from nearly 50 contributors from 20 countries, illustrating both the diversity and yet the coherence of FSR. The five parts of the book cover: (1) FSR - understanding farmers and their farming (FSR origins and perspectives; understanding farming systems); (2) the applications of farming systems research (FSR in technology choice and development; FSR in extension and policy formulation); (3) institutional commitment to FSR (FSR: some institutional experiences in national agricultural research; dimensions of the organization of FSR; training for FSR); (4) FSR: the professional dimension (regional and international associations; FSR and the professional disciplines); and (5) cutting edge methods, abiding issues and the future for FSR.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Civilization
ISBN : UVA:X030742146

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The Growing World by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Gardening
ISBN : CORNELL:31924071507184

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Popular Gardening and Fruit Growing by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Cotton
ISBN : UCAL:$B231876

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Empire Cotton Growing Review by Anonim Pdf