Sinews Of Empire

Author : Eivind Seland,Hakon Terigon
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785705991

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Sinews of Empire by Eivind Seland,Hakon Terigon Pdf

A recent surge of interest in network approaches to the study of the ancient world has enabled scholars of the Roman Empire to move beyond traditional narratives of domination, resistance, integration and fragmentation. This relational turn has not only offers tools to identify, map, visualize and, in some cases, even quantify interaction based on a variety of ancient source material, but also provides a terminology to deal with the everyday ties of power, trade, and ideology that operated within, below, and beyond the superstructure of imperial rule. Thirteen contributions employ a range of quantitative, qualitative and descriptive network approaches in order to provide new perspectives on trade, communication, administration, technology, religion and municipal life in the Roman Near East and adjacent regions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1970*
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:914931404

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Sinews of Empire by Anonim Pdf

Author : Roger Shaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OCLC:50209887

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Sinews of Empire by Roger Shaw Pdf

Author : Michael Craton
Publisher : ACLS History E-Book Project
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1597409790

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Sinews of Empire by Michael Craton Pdf

A history of British slavery that covers its origins, organization, and the attitudes of stakeholders.

Author : Laleh Khalili
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786634818

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Sinews of War and Trade by Laleh Khalili Pdf

How shipping is central to the very fabric of global capitalism In our networked world, the realities governing the international movement of freight are easily forgotten. But maritime transport remains the bedrock of trade. Convoys perpetually crisscross the oceans, carrying gas, oil, ore – indeed, every type of consumable and commodity. These movements, though practically invisible, mean that control of the seas is vital in an age when no nation can survive on domestic products alone. Professor and author Laleh Khalili travelled the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean aboard gigantic container ships to investigate the secretive and sometimes dangerous world of maritime trade. What she discovered was strangely disturbing: brutally exploited seafarers enduring loneliness and risking injury to keep the cogs of trade turning. In the Arabian peninsula’s ports, forbidden places encircled by barbed wire and moats of highways, the dockers struggle for benefits and political rights, as they have for generations. Environmental catastrophes threaten with increasing intensity and frequency. Around the oil-trading nations of the Middle East, a history of British colonialism, modern US imperialism, and local autocracies combine to worsen the conditions of modern seafarers, and piracy persists near the Horn of Africa. From her research riding the sea lanes and visiting the major Middle Eastern ports, Khalili has produced a book that exposes the frayed and tense sinews of modern capital, a physical network without which none of our more abstracted webs and systems could operate.

Author : John Brewer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134998524

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The Sinews of Power by John Brewer Pdf

First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Mark Metzler
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520931794

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Lever of Empire by Mark Metzler Pdf

This book, the first full account of Japan’s financial history and the Japanese gold standard in the pivotal years before World War II, provides a new perspective on the global political dynamics of the era by placing Japan, rather than Europe, at the center of the story. Focusing on the fall of liberalism in Japan in late 1931 and the global politics of money that were at the center of the crisis, Mark Metzler asks why successive Japanese governments from 1920 to 1931 carried out policies that deliberately induced deflation and depression. His search for answers stretches from Edo to London to the ragged borderlands of the Japanese empire and from the eighteenth century to the 1950s, integrating political and monetary analysis to shed light on the complex dynamics of money, empire, and global hegemony. His detailed and broad ranging account illuminates a range of issues including Japan’s involvement in the economic dynamics that shook interwar Europe, the character of U.S. isolationism, and the rise of fascism as an international phenomenon.

Author : Lawrence Stone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134546022

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An Imperial State at War by Lawrence Stone Pdf

The study of eighteenth century history has been transformed by the writings of John Brewer, and most recently, with The Sinews of Power, he challenged the central concepts of British history. Brewer argues that the power of the British state increased dramatically when it was forced to pay the costs of war in defence of her growing empire. In An Imperial State at War, edited by Lawrence Stone (himself no stranger to controversy), the leading historians of the eighteenth century put the Brewer thesis under the spotlight. Like the Sinews of Power itself, this is a major advance in the study of Britain's first empire.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004285200

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Building the Atlantic Empires: Unfree Labor and Imperial States in the Political Economy of Capitalism, ca. 1500-1914 by Anonim Pdf

Exploring the relationship between state recruitment of unfree labor, capitalism’s expansion, and imperial development, Building the Atlantic Empires raises new questions about how the history of servitude and slavery transformed the Atlantic world and beyond.

Author : Kate Luce Mulry
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479895267

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An Empire Transformed by Kate Luce Mulry Pdf

Examines the efforts to bring political order to the English empire through projects of environmental improvement When Charles II ascended the English throne in 1660 after two decades of civil war, he was confronted with domestic disarray and a sprawling empire in chaos. His government sought to assert control and affirm the King’s sovereignty by touting his stewardship of both England’s land and the improvement of his subjects’ health. By initiating ambitious projects of environmental engineering, including fen and marshland drainage, forest rehabilitation, urban reconstruction, and garden transplantation schemes, agents of the English Restoration government aimed to transform both places and people in service of establishing order. Merchants, colonial officials, and members of the Royal Society encouraged royal intervention in places deemed unhealthy, unproductive, or poorly managed. Their multiple schemes reflected an enduring belief in the complex relationships between the health of individual bodies, personal and communal character, and the landscapes they inhabited. In this deeply researched work, Kate Mulry highlights a period of innovation during which officials reassessed the purpose of colonies, weighed their benefits and drawbacks, and engineered and instituted a range of activities in relation to subjects’ bodies and material environments. These wide-ranging actions offer insights about how restoration officials envisioned authority within a changing English empire. An Empire Transformed is an interdisciplinary work addressing a series of interlocking issues concerning ideas about the environment, governance, and public health in the early modern English Atlantic empire.

Author : R. W. Sandwell
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780773547865

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Powering Up Canada by R. W. Sandwell Pdf

A comprehensive history of energy sources - from wood to nuclear - and their role in shaping Canadian society.

Author : Laleh Khalili
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786634832

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Sinews of War and Trade by Laleh Khalili Pdf

On the map of global trade, China is now the factory of the world. A parade of ships full of raw commodities-iron ore, coal, oil-arrive in its ports, and fleets of container ships leave with manufactured goods in all directions. The oil that fuels China's manufacturing comes primarily from the Arabian peninsula. Much of the material shipped from China are transported through the ports of Arabian peninsula, Dubai's Jabal Ali port foremost among them. China's 'maritime silk road' flanks the peninsula on all sides. Sinews of War and Trade is the story of what the making of new ports and shipping infrastructure has meant not only for the Arabian peninsula itself, but for the region and the world beyond. The book is an account of how maritime transportation is not simply an enabling companion of trade, but central to the very fabric of global capitalism. The ports that serve maritime trade, logistics, and hydrocarbon transport create racialised hierarchies of labour, engineer the lived environment, aid the accumulation of capital regionally and globally, and carry forward colonial regimes of profit, law and administration.

Author : Peter Fibiger Bang,C. A. Bayly,Walter Scheidel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1353 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : William D. Godsey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198809395

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The Sinews of Habsburg Power by William D. Godsey Pdf

The Sinews of Habsburg Power traces the development of the central European Habsburg monarchy into one of early modern Europe's leading powers. In particular, it looks to the domestic foundations of that power, which were upheld by the growth of a permanent standing army.

Author : John Steele Gordon
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780060505127

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Empire of Wealth by John Steele Gordon Pdf

Throughout time, from ancient Rome to modern Britain, the great empires built and maintained their domination through force of arms and political power. But not the United States. America has dominated the world in a new, peaceful, and pervasive way -- through the continued creation of staggering wealth. In this authoritative, engrossing history, John Steele Gordon captures as never before the true source of our nation's global influence: wealth and the capacity to create more of it. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.