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Empire and Nation
How did events and ideas from elsewhere in the British empire influence development in the thirteen American colonies? What was the effect of the American Revolution on the wider …
Empires of the Atlantic World
This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus’s arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early …
Economics Of Social Capital And Health, The: A Conceptual And Empirical Roadmap
This book defines the field of social capital and health. Over the last two decades, there has been a recognition of the importance of social capital (usually defined as ties in …
Packaging Post/Coloniality
In Packaging Post/Coloniality, Richard Watts breaks from convention and reads Francophone books by their covers, focusing on the package over the content. Watts looks at the ways …
Empire Writing
`The contact with . . .primitive nature and primitive man brings sudden and profound trouble into the heart.' (Joseph Conrad) `Flowers look loveliest in their native soil . . …
From Empire to Republic: Post-World War I Austria
Old World Empires
This book is a sweeping historical survey of the origins, development and nature of state power. It demonstrates that Eurasia is home to a dominant tradition of arbitrary rule …
The History and Legacy of the British Empire's Most Famous Trading Companies across the World
*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading After the Englishman Henry Hudson, under the aegis of the Dutch East India Company, sailed by …
Profits, Power, and Legitimacy: The Zheng Maritime Empire in Seventeenth-Century Maritime East Asia
Maritime East Asia is a region with a long history of contest. In the 17th century, the Zheng family enterprise found success in regional trade and maintained a high degree of …
Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World
This is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death pandemic and the centuries that followed. Using a wealth of archival and …
Science and Empire
Offering one of the first analyses of how networks of science interacted within the British Empire during the past two centuries, this volume shows how the rise of formalized state …
Capitalism in the Ottoman Balkans
The Ottoman Empire went through rapid economic and social development in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as it approached its end. Profound changes took place in …