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Author : Brian Lapping
Release : 1985
Genre : Commonwealth countries
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Book Rating : 698/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis End of Empire by : Brian Lapping
Download or read book End of Empire written by Brian Lapping. This book was released on 1985. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Gehler
Release : 2022-11-21
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 764/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The End of Empires by : Michael Gehler
Download or read book The End of Empires written by Michael Gehler. This book was released on 2022-11-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles of this comprehensive edited volume offer a multidisciplinary, global and comparative approach to the history of empires. They analyze their ends over a long spectrum of humankind’s history, ranging from Ancient History through Modern Times. As the main guiding question, every author of this volume scrutinizes the reasons for the decline, the erosion, and the implosion of individual empires. All contributions locate and highlight different factors that triggered or at least supported the ending or the implosion of empires. This overall question makes all the contributions to this volume comparable and allows to detect similarities, differences as well as inconsistencies of historical processes.
Author : Gerald Horne
Release : 2009-09-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 000/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The End of Empires by : Gerald Horne
Download or read book The End of Empires written by Gerald Horne. This book was released on 2009-09-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past fifty years, according to Christine So, the narratives of many popular Asian American books have been dominated by economic questions-what money can buy, how money is lost, how money is circulated, and what labor or objects are worth. Focusing on books that have achieved mainstream popularity, Economic Citizens unveils the logic of economic exchange that determined Asian Americans’ transnational migrations and national belonging. With penetrating insight, So examines literary works that have been successful in the U.S. marketplace but have been read previously by critics largely as narratives of alienation or assimilation, including Fifth Chinese Daughter, Flower Drum Song, Falling Leaves and Turning Japanese. In contrast to other studies that have focused on the marginalization of Asian Americans, Economic Citizens examines how Asian Americans have entered into the public sphere.
Author : Chad Denton
Release : 2020-05-28
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 340/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Fall of Empires by : Chad Denton
Download or read book The Fall of Empires written by Chad Denton. This book was released on 2020-05-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Historical Survey of the Many Ways Empires have Succumbed to External and Internal Pressures There are no self-proclaimed empires today. After the twentieth century, with its worldwide wave of decolonizing and liberation movements, the very word "empire" conjures images of slavery, war, repression, and colonialism. None of this is to say that empires are confined to the past, however. By at least some reasonable definitions, empires do exist today. Many articles and books speak about the decline of the "American Empire," for example, or compare the history of the United States to that of Rome or the British Empire. Yet no public official would speak candidly of American "imperial" interests in the Middle East or use the word "empire" in discussions of the nation's future the same way British politicians did in the twentieth century. In addition, empires don't have to fit the classical Roman mold; there are many kinds of empire and varieties of international authority, such as cultural imperialism and economic imperialism. But it is clear empires do not last, even those that once harnessed great wealth, strong armies, and sophisticated legal systems. InThe Fall of Empires: A Brief History of Imperial Collapse, historian Chad Denton describes the end of seventeen empires throughout world history, from Athens to Qin China, from the Byzantium to the Mughals. He reveals--through stories of conquest, corruption, incompetence, assassination, bigotry, and environmental crisis--how even the most seemingly eternal of empires declined. For Athens and Britain it was military hubris; for Qin China and Russia it was alienating their subjects through oppression; Persia succumbed with the loss of its capital; the Khmer faced ecological catastrophe; while the Aztecs were destroyed by colonial exploitation. None of these events alone explains why the empires fell, but they do provide a glimpse into the often-unpredictable currents of history, which have so far spared no empire. A fascinating and instructive survey, The Fall of Empiresprovides compelling evidence about the fate of centralized regional or global power.
Author : Christopher Kelly
Release : 2009-06
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 965/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The End of Empire: Attila the Hun & the Fall of Rome by : Christopher Kelly
Download or read book The End of Empire: Attila the Hun & the Fall of Rome written by Christopher Kelly. This book was released on 2009-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conjuring up images of savagery and ferocity, Attila the Hun has become a byword for barbarianism. This history reframes the warrior king as a political strategist who dealt a seemingly invincible empire defeats from which it would never recover.
