Traces Of Empire

Author : Ian Edginton
Publisher : Abaddon
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1781085579

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Scarlet Traces: Empire of Blood by Ian Edginton Pdf

The first novel set in the War of the Worlds universe from the cult comic book hit Scarlet Traces, picking up the story directly from the climax of H.G. Wells' classic. November 1898, four months after the Martians’ failed invasion of the United Kingdom, leaving priceless technology scattered among London’s ruins. As reconstruction begins, Germany sends men and resources to aid in the recovery; not entirely trusting Kaiser Wilhelm’s goodwill, the Queen’s spymaster sends his trusted agent Ampney Crucis to spy on the German workers. In the shadows of the city, mutilated bodies are turning up in the new slums. With so many still missing and so much still to be done, the case is all but overlooked, handed over to the police department’s most junior detective, Valentine Bey. As Bey begins his investigations, he crosses paths with Crucis, and the two men discover a plot that could change the world. Something survived the War of the Worlds; something that lives still under London. And there are many who would kill to get their hands on it...

Author : Daniel Immerwahr
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374715120

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How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr Pdf

Named one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago Tribune A Publishers Weekly best book of 2019 | A 2019 NPR Staff Pick A pathbreaking history of the United States’ overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an “empire,” exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories—the islands, atolls, and archipelagos—this country has governed and inhabited? In How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light. We travel to the Guano Islands, where prospectors collected one of the nineteenth century’s most valuable commodities, and the Philippines, site of the most destructive event on U.S. soil. In Puerto Rico, Immerwahr shows how U.S. doctors conducted grisly experiments they would never have conducted on the mainland and charts the emergence of independence fighters who would shoot up the U.S. Congress. In the years after World War II, Immerwahr notes, the United States moved away from colonialism. Instead, it put innovations in electronics, transportation, and culture to use, devising a new sort of influence that did not require the control of colonies. Rich with absorbing vignettes, full of surprises, and driven by an original conception of what empire and globalization mean today, How to Hide an Empire is a major and compulsively readable work of history.

Author : Mairead Small Staid
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781646052011

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The Traces by Mairead Small Staid Pdf

The Traces is a ranging inquiry into the seductions of memory and travel, the fragile paradox of desire, and the art of making meaning from a life. The Traces is a work of memoir and criticism that explores the nature of happiness in art, literature, and philosophy, structured around a season spent in Italy and a reading of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. Poised between plummeting depressions, the author considers the intellectual merits of joy and the redeeming promise offered by the beauty, both natural and manmade, that surrounds her. Traveling from Florence to Rome to Venice, drawing on the fields of physics, history, architecture, and cartography, and spurred by thinkers from Aristotle and Montaigne to Cesare Pavese and Anne Carson,The Traces is an ecstatic, insightful, and original debut.

Author : Eva-Marie Kröller
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781487507572

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Writing the Empire by Eva-Marie Kröller Pdf

Crossing time and oceans, this fascinating history of the McIlwraiths tracks the family's imperial identities across the generations to tell a story of anthropology and empire.

Author : Naoki Sakai,Jon Solomon
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789622097742

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Traces 4 by Naoki Sakai,Jon Solomon Pdf

Translation, Biopolitics, Colonial Difference, the fourth book in the Traces series, focuses on the problems of translation and the political dynamics surrounding multiplicity -- linguistic, regional, transnational, and civilizational -- today.

Author : Peter Fibiger Bang,Dariusz Kolodziejczyk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139560955

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Universal Empire by Peter Fibiger Bang,Dariusz Kolodziejczyk Pdf

The claim by certain rulers to universal empire has a long history stretching as far back as the Assyrian and Achaemenid Empires. This book traces its various manifestations in classical antiquity, the Islamic world, Asia and Central America as well as considering seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European discussions of international order. As such it is an exercise in comparative world history combining a multiplicity of approaches, from ancient history, to literary and philosophical studies, to the history of art and international relations and historical sociology. The notion of universal, imperial rule is presented as an elusive and much coveted prize among monarchs in history, around which developed forms of kingship and political culture. Different facets of the phenomenon are explored under three, broadly conceived, headings: symbolism, ceremony and diplomatic relations; universal or cosmopolitan literary high-cultures; and, finally, the inclination to present universal imperial rule as an expression of cosmic order.

Author : John Lockhart Ross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Missions
ISBN : BL:A0020757757

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Traces of Primitive Truth in the Principal Nations of the World by John Lockhart Ross Pdf

Author : Philip Van Ness Myers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Babylon (Extinct city)
ISBN : UCAL:B4512369

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Remains of Lost Empires by Philip Van Ness Myers Pdf

Author : Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807895917

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This Violent Empire by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Pdf

This Violent Empire traces the origins of American violence, racism, and paranoia to the founding moments of the new nation and the initial instability of Americans' national sense of self. Fusing cultural and political analyses to create a new form of political history, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg explores the ways the founding generation, lacking a common history, governmental infrastructures, and shared culture, solidified their national sense of self by imagining a series of "Others" (African Americans, Native Americans, women, the propertyless) whose differences from European American male founders overshadowed the differences that divided those founders. These "Others," dangerous and polluting, had to be excluded from the European American body politic. Feared, but also desired, they refused to be marginalized, incurring increasingly enraged enactments of their political and social exclusion that shaped our long history of racism, xenophobia, and sexism. Close readings of political rhetoric during the Constitutional debates reveal the genesis of this long history.

Author : Philip Van Ness Myers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Babylon (Extinct city)
ISBN : UIUC:30112078908016

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Remains of Lost Empires by Philip Van Ness Myers Pdf

Author : Peter Van Ness Myers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : NYPL:33433081598892

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Remains of Lost Empires by Peter Van Ness Myers Pdf

Author : Herfried Münkler
Publisher : Polity
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745638720

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Empires by Herfried Münkler Pdf

"Herfried Munkler is a walking one-man think tank." Die Zeit Until recently, it was thought by many that empires were relics of the past. But suddenly, in the wake of 9/11, the global war on terror and the invasion of Iraq, the question of imperial power has returned to the centre of debate: we now seem to be faced with a new American empire that many people regard as threatening. Do the politicians in Washington dictate the rules that the rest of the world must follow? Or do empires have a logic of their own to which even the most powerful rulers must succumb? In this major new book, Herfried Munkler analyses the characteristics of empires and traces the rise and fall of imperial powers from Ancient Rome to the present day. What is an empire? What risks does an imperial order face and what opportunities are offered? Munkler shows how empires provide stability and examines the dangers they face when their powers are overstretched. He argues that, while earlier empires from Ancient China and Ancient Rome to the Spanish, Portuguese and British empires had their own historical conditions, certain basic principles concerning the development and preservation of power can be discerned in all empires and are still relevant today. This book is a commanding walk through the history of empires and at the same time a brilliant analysis of the most modern of topics. It will appeal to students and scholars of international politics and history as well as general readers interested in political history and contemporary world politics.

Author : Amy L. Hubbell,Natsuko Akagawa,Sol Rojas-Lizana,Annie Pohlman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030520564

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Places of Traumatic Memory by Amy L. Hubbell,Natsuko Akagawa,Sol Rojas-Lizana,Annie Pohlman Pdf

This volume explores the relationship between place, traumatic memory, and narrative. Drawing on cases from Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and North and South America, the book provides a uniquely cross-cultural and global approach. Covering a wide range of cultural and linguistic contexts, the volume is divided into three parts: memorial spaces, sites of trauma, and traumatic representations. The contributions explore how acknowledgement of past suffering is key to the complex inter-relationship between the politics of memory, expressions of victimhood, and collective memory. Contributors take note of differing aspects of memorial culture, such as those embedded in war memorials, mass grave sites, and exhibitions, as well as journalistic, literary and visual forms of commemorations, to investigate how narratives of memory can give meaning and form to places of trauma.

Author : Selcuk Aksin Somel
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810866065

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Historical Dictionary of the Ottoman Empire by Selcuk Aksin Somel Pdf

Here you will find an in-depth treatise covering the political social, and economic history of the Ottoman Empire, the last member of the lineage of the Near Eastern and Mediterranean empires and the only one that reached the modern times both in terms of internal structure and world history.

Author : Adam Dahl
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780700626076

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Empire of the People by Adam Dahl Pdf

American democracy owes its origins to the colonial settlement of North America by Europeans. Since the birth of the republic, observers such as Alexis de Tocqueville and J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur have emphasized how American democratic identity arose out of the distinct pattern by which English settlers colonized the New World. Empire of the People explores a new way of understanding this process—and in doing so, offers a fundamental reinterpretation of modern democratic thought in the Americas. In Empire of the People, Adam Dahl examines the ideological development of American democratic thought in the context of settler colonialism, a distinct form of colonialism aimed at the appropriation of Native land rather than the exploitation of Native labor. By placing the development of American political thought and culture in the context of nineteenth-century settler expansion, his work reveals how practices and ideologies of Indigenous dispossession have laid the cultural and social foundations of American democracy, and in doing so profoundly shaped key concepts in modern democratic theory such as consent, social equality, popular sovereignty, and federalism. To uphold its legitimacy, Dahl also argues, settler political thought must disavow the origins of democracy in colonial dispossession—and in turn erase the political and historical presence of native peoples. Empire of the People traces this thread through the conceptual and theoretical architecture of American democratic politics—in the works of thinkers such as Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Alexis de Tocqueville, John O’Sullivan, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Daniel Webster, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, and William Apess. In its focus on the disavowal of Native dispossession in democratic thought, the book provides a new perspective on the problematic relationship between race and democracy—and a different and more nuanced interpretation of the role of settler colonialism in the foundations of democratic culture and society.