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On the Rim of Empire

Author : Philip Peter Russo
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595261185

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Though taking place against the background of the colorful and turbulent years of the American Revolution, this is primarily a tale of espionage and betrayal. Within the fabric of the earth-shaking events of those times, the author has interwoven a set of characters who could have credibly existed, but who are, of course, pure fiction. What is not fiction was George Washington's shrewd, efficient, and amazingly effective use of his secret service during the long struggle for American independence. Even so, events were to prove that at times mere chance weighed in at the right time and place to aid in the birth of this new and very different nation; one that a future great president would call "the last best hope of mankind".

Star Wars Edge of the Empire RPG

Author : Fantasy Flight Games,Lisa Farrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Fantasy games
ISBN : 1616616911

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Star Wars Edge of the Empire RPG by Fantasy Flight Games,Lisa Farrell Pdf

"Fantasy Flight Games is proud to announce Far Horizons, a sourcebook for Colonists making their living at the galaxys fringes in Star Wars: Edge of the Empire. Far Horizons offers new options for Colonists, along with new gear, spaceships, and species that all players (and GMs) will find useful." -- Publisher website.

Lords of the Rim

Author : Sterling Seagrave
Publisher : Corgi
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05
Category : China
ISBN : 0552168122

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"Be so subtle that you are invisible. Be so mysterious that you are intangible. Then you will control your rivals's fate' un Tzu, from The Art of War A community of fifty five million expatriates. Up to two trillion dollars in assets. A highly integrated interconnected network of influence and favour. A firm base on the Pacific Rim. Ambitions to influence the West. Imagine the potential power of such an organisation. You don't have to. This is the Overseas Chinese. Sterling Seagrave's brilliant new book, Lords of the Rim, uncovers a complex web of operations which already dominates the Far East and which is already making inroads into the West. It is a superbly researched and spectacularly told account of an extraordinary phenomenon, telling just who the Overseas Chinese are and how they became so powerful. Spanning thousands of years it encompasses stories of murder and betrayal, bravery and corruption; of triads, syndicates, kingmakers, merchants, emperors, generals, spies and pirates. In telling this masterful and entertaining history, Seagrave provides the reader with a cautionary tale- that Chinese strategies so effective for centuries are just as succesful today."

At the Far Reaches of Empire

Author : Freeman M. Tovell
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780774858366

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Capitán de Navío Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra was the most important Spanish naval officer on the Northwest Coast in the eighteenth century. Serving from 1774 to 1794, he participated in the search for the Northwest Passage and, with George Vancouver, endeavoured to forge a diplomatic resolution to the Nootka Sound controversy between Spain and Britain. Freeman Tovell’s thorough and nuanced study presents this officer as a key figure in the history of the region. Bodega's accomplishments place him in the company of Bering, Cook, Vancouver, La Pérouse, and Malaspina – those who advanced a better understanding of the geography, ethnography, and natural history of the area.

American Empire in the Pacific

Author : Arthur Power Dudden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351959384

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American Empire in the Pacific explores the empire that emerged from the Oregon Treaty of 1846 with Great Britain and the outcome of the Mexican War in 1848. Together, they signalled the mastery of the United States over the continent of North America; the Pacific Ocean and the ancient civilizations of Asia at last lay within reach. England's East India Company in the 17th and 18th centuries had introduced Asian wares including tea to the American colonists, but wars against France and then the struggle for American independence held back expansion by Yankee entrepreneurs until 1783. Thereafter, from the Atlantic seaboard, American ships began regularly to reach China. Merchants, sailors and missionaries, motivated toward trade and redemption like the Europeans they met along the way, encountered the exotic peoples and cultures of the Pacific. Would-be empire builders projected a manifest destiny without limits. Russian Alaska, the native kingdom of Hawai'i, Japan, Korea, Samoa, and Spain's Philippine Islands, as well as a transcontinental railroad and an isthmian canal, acquired strategic significance in American minds, in time to outweigh both commerce and conversion.

Interlopers of Empire

Author : Andrew Arsan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190257170

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This work is the first comprehensive history of the Lebanese migrant communities of colonial French West Africa, a vast expanse that covered present-day Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Guinea, Benin and Mauritania. Where others have concentrated on the commercial activities of these migrants, casting them as archetypal middlemen, this work reconstructs not just their economic strategies, but also their social and political lives. Moreover, it examines the fraught responses of colonial Frenchmen to the unsettling presence of these interlopers of empire--responses which, with their echoes of metropolitan racism, helped to shape the ways in which Lebanese migrants represented themselves and justified their place in West Africa. This is a work which attempts not just to reshape broader understandings of diasporic life-of Janus-like existences lived in transit between distant locales, and de- pendent on the constant to-and-fro of people, news, and goods--but also to challenge the way we think about empires, and the relations between their constituent territories and diverse inhabitants.

Borderless Empire

Author : Bram Hoonhout
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Demerara
ISBN : 9780820356082

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Introduction: borderless societies -- The borderland -- Political conflicts -- Rebels and runaways -- The centrality of smuggling -- The web of debt -- Borderless businessmen -- Conclusion: the shape of empire.

The Russian Empire 1450-1801

Author : Nancy Shields Kollmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199280513

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Russia's imperial past has shaped modern Russian identity and historical experience. The Russian Empire 1450-1801 surveys the empire's emergence and governance, exploring how the state maintained control of defense, criminal law, taxation, and mobilization of resources, while tolerating local religions, languages, cultures, and institutions.

Empire

Author : Steven Saylor
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429964999

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"May Steven Saylor's Roman empire never fall. A modern master of historical fiction, Saylor convincingly transports us into the ancient world...enthralling!" —USA Today on Roma Continuing the saga begun in his New York Times bestselling novel Roma, Steven Saylor charts the destinies of the aristocratic Pinarius family, from the reign of Augustus to height of Rome's empire. The Pinarii, generation after generation, are witness to greatest empire in the ancient world and of the emperors that ruled it—from the machinations of Tiberius and the madness of Caligula, to the decadence of Nero and the golden age of Trajan and Hadrian and more. Empire is filled with the dramatic, defining moments of the age, including the Great Fire, the persecution of the Christians, and the astounding opening games of the Colosseum. But at the novel's heart are the choices and temptations faced by each generation of the Pinarii. Steven Saylor once again brings the ancient world to vivid life in a novel that tells the story of a city and a people that has endured in the world's imagination like no other.

Shadows of the Empire: Star Wars Legends

Author : Steve Perry
Publisher : Random House Worlds
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307796349

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Shadows of the Empire: Star Wars Legends by Steve Perry Pdf

Shadows of the Empire illuminates the shadowy outlines of a criminal conspiracy that exists in the background of the events in the movies, ruled by a character new to us. Prince Xizor is a mastermind of evil who dares to oppose one of the best-known fictional villains of all time: Darth Vader. The story involves all the featured Star Wars movie characters, plus Emperor Palpatine and, of course, Lord Vader himself. Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!

Bones of Empire

Author : William C. Dietz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101443705

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On holiday in the capital city, cop Jack Cato gets a glimpse of the Emperor-and realizes what he's looking at is a supposedly dead shape- shifter. The imposter is his mortal enemy, still alive and again on the run. Now, the fate of the Empire-and Cato's own honor-are at stake.

Canada and the End of Empire

Author : Phillip Buckner
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774850667

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Sir John Seeley once wrote that the British Empire was acquired in “a fit of absence of mind.” Whatever the truth of this comment, it is certainly arguable that the Empire was dismantled in such a fit. This collection deals with a neglected subject in post-Confederation Canadian history – the implications to Canada and Canadians of British decolonization and the end of empire. Canada and the End of Empire looks at Canadian diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom and the United States, the Suez crisis, the changing economic relationship with Great Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, the role of educational and cultural institutions in maintaining the British connection, the royal tour of 1959, the decision to adopt a new flag in 1964, the efforts to find a formula for repatriating the constitution, the Canadianization of the Royal Canadian Navy, and the attitude of First Nations to the changed nature of the Anglo-Canadian relationship. Historians in Commonwealth countries tend to view the end of British rule from a nationalist perspective. Canada and the End of Empire challenges this view and demonstrates the centrality of imperial history in Canadian historiography. An important addition to the growing canon of empire studies and imperial history, this book will be of interest to historians of the Commonwealth, and to scholars and students interested in the relationship between colonialism and nationalism.

Red Money for the Global South

Author : Max Trecker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000037425

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Red Money for the Global South explores the relationship of the East with the “new” South after decolonization, with a particular focus on the economic motives of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) and other parties that were all striving for mutual cooperation. During the Cold War, the CMEA served as a forum for discussions on common policy initiatives inside the so-called “Eastern Bloc” and for international interactions. This text analyzes the economic relationship of the East with the “new” South through three main research questions. Firstly, what was the motivation for cooperation? Secondly, what insights can be derived from CMEA negotiations about intrabloc and East‒South relations alike? And finally, which mutual dependencies between East and South developed over time? The combination of analytical narrative and engagement with primary archival material from former CMEA states, and India as the most prestigious among the former European colonies, makes this text essential reading for students and instructors of Cold War history, Economic History, and international relations more generally.

In a Sea of Empires

Author : Jeppe Mulich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108489720

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A history of imperial competition, colonial cooperation, and revolutionary currents in the maritime borderlands of the early nineteenth-century Caribbean.

Labor Versus Empire

Author : Gilbert G. Gonzalez,Raul A. Fernandez,Vivian Price,David Smith,Linda Trinh Võ
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135935283

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Labor Versus Empire by Gilbert G. Gonzalez,Raul A. Fernandez,Vivian Price,David Smith,Linda Trinh Võ Pdf

The essays in this collection address issues significant to labor within regional, national and international contexts. Themes of the chapters will focus on managed labor migration; organizing in multi-ethnic and multi-national contexts; global economics and labor; global economics and inequality; gender and labor; racism and globalization; regional trade agreements and labor.