Hakutulokset: empire of the world
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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 …
Oxford World History of Empire
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 …
Race and Identity in the Tasman World, 1769-1840
British imperial encounters with indigenous cultures created perceptions and stereotypes that still persist today. The initial creation of racial images in relation to violence had …
Corporeal Archipelagos
Corporeal Archipelagos: Writing the Body in Francophone Oceanian Women’s Literature offers an examination of contemporary literature from the French-speaking Oceanian region …
A World of Empires
A Financial Times Best History Book of the YearMany people are familiar with American Commodore Matthew Perry’s expedition to open trade relations with Japan in the early 1850s. …
The British Empire: The History and Legacy of the Rise and Fall of the Modern World's Most Famous Empire
The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE KANSAS CITY STAR From Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian, comes a …
The Assyrian Empire's Three Attempts to Rule the World
The Assyrians were relentless. You can pretty much say that they hated failure so much that they attempted three times to rule the world. This book will discuss those three …
Empire and Commerce in Africa
In this title, originally published in 1920, Leonard Woolf traces the history of economic imperialism and explores the relations of Europe and Africa since 1876. This analysis of …
English Trade and Adventure to Russia in the Early Modern Era
In English Trade and Adventure to Russia in the Early Modern Era, Maria Salomon Arel revisits Anglo-Russian trade in first half of the seventeenth century. Drawing on largely …
Empires and Bureaucracy in World History
How did empires rule different peoples across vast expanses of space and time? And how did small numbers of imperial bureaucrats govern large numbers of subordinated peoples? …
The Third Reich: Adolf Hitler, Nazi Germany, World War II and the Last German Empire
The First Reich: Charlemagne, king of the Franks, is declared ruler of the Holy Roman Empire. This empire dominates western Europe from 800 until 1806, when it is defeated by …