Visions of Empire: How Five Imperial Regimes Shaped the World (Kumar Krishan)(Paperback)

Visions of Empire: How Five Imperial Regimes Shaped the World (Kumar Krishan)(Paperback)

What the rulers of empire can teach us about navigating today's increasingly interconnected worldThe empires of the past were far-flung experiments in multinationalism and multiculturalism, and they have much to teach us about navigating our own increasingly globalized world. Visions of Empire

Empires: A Historical and Political Sociology (Kumar Krishan)(Paperback)

Empires have been the commonest form of political organization for most of recorded history. How should we best understand them? What are their principles and how do they differ from other political forms, such as the nation-state? What sort of relations between rulers and ruled do they express? Do

A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World (Rappaport Erika)(Paperback)

How the global tea industry influenced the international economy and the rise of mass consumerismTea has been one of the most popular commodities in the world. For centuries, profits from its growth and sales funded wars and fueled colonization, and its cultivation brought about massive changes--in

Hungry Empire - How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World (Collingham Lizzie)(Paperback / softback)

Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species (Ahuja Neel)(Paperback)

In Bioinsecurities Neel Ahuja argues that U.S. imperial expansion has been shaped by the attempts of health and military officials to control the interactions of humans, animals, viruses, and bacteria at the borders of U.S. influence, a phenomenon called the government of species. The book explores

Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World (Jayawardena Kumari)(Paperback)

A founding text of transnational feminism For twenty-five years, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World has been an essential primer on the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history of women's movements in Asia and the Middle East. In this engaging and well-researched survey,

The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World (Silber William L.)(Paperback)

The Dutch Overseas Empire, 1600-1800 (Emmer Pieter C.)(Paperback)

How did the Dutch Empire compare with other imperial enterprises? And how was it experienced by the indigenous peoples who became part of this colonial power? At the start of the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic emerged as the centre of a global empire that stretched along the edges of

Imperial Boredom: Monotony and the British Empire (Auerbach Jeffrey A.)(Paperback)

Imperial Boredom offers a radical reconsideration of the British Empire during its heyday in the nineteenth century. Challenging the long-established view that the Empire was about adventure and excitement, with heroic men and intrepid women eagerly spreading commerce and civilization around the

Infinitesimal - How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World (Alexander Assoc. Prof. Amir)(Paperback / softback)

The epic story of the origin of

Ghosts of Empire - Britain's Legacies in the Modern World (Kwarteng Kwasi)(Paperback / softback)

This fascinating book shows how the later years of the British Empire were characterised by accidental oversights, irresponsible opportunism and uncertain

Splendid Exchange - How Trade Shaped the World (Bernstein William L.)(Paperback / softback)

As globalisation wobbles into world crisis, a vividly written, brilliantly original history of world trade, the first for a generation: 'A Splendid Exchange is a splendid book.' New York TimesSHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES / GOLDMAN SACHS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE

Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times (Stoler Ann Laura)(Paperback)

How do colonial histories matter to the urgencies and conditions of our current world? How have those histories so often been rendered as leftovers, as 'legacies' of a dead past rather than as active and violating forces in the world today? With precision and clarity, Ann Laura Stoler argues that

Ruling the World (Lester Alan)(Paperback)

Ruling the World tells the story of how the largest and most diverse empire in history was governed, everywhere and all at once. Focusing on some of the most tumultuous years of Queen Victoria's reign, Alan Lester, Kate Boehme and Peter Mitchell adopt an entirely new perspective to explain how the

The Roman Empire in Late Antiquity (Elton Hugh)(Paperback)

This book provides a history of the late Roman Empire (AD 260-641), covering the rise of imperial Christianity, the fall of the West to the barbarians, and the Justinianic reconquest. Focuses on mechanics of ruling this large state and the interaction of the emperor with the administration. Written

Empire - How Britain Made the Modern World (Ferguson Niall)(Paperback / softback)

European Overseas Empire, 1879 - 1999: A Short History (Stanard Matthew G.)(Paperback)

A Timely Look Back at the Era That Shaped Our World Thousands of years of recorded history show that the main way in which human societies have been organized is as empires. Today, the evidence of recent European overseas empire's lasting effects is all around us: from international frontiers and

Postcolonial Europe: Comparative Reflections After the Empires (Jensen Lars)(Pevná vazba)

How has European identity been shaped through its colonial empires? Does this history of imperialism influence the conceptualisation of Europe in the contemporary globalised world? How has coloniality shaped geopolitical differences within Europe? What does this mean for the future of Europe?

The Frontiers of Imperial Rome (Breeze David J.)(Paperback)

At its height, the Roman Empire was the greatest empire yet seen with borders stretching from the rain-swept highlands of Scotland in the north to the sun-scorched Nubian desert in the south. But how were the vast and varied stretches of frontier defined and defended?Many of Rome's frontier

Visions of Heat - Book 2 (Singh Nalini)(Paperback / softback)

Go deeper into the world of the Psy and the

Ivanhoe (Scott Walter)(Paperback)

In Ivanhoe Scott fashioned an imperial myth of national cultural identity that has shaped the popular imagination ever since its first appearance at the end of 1819. With the secret return of King Richard and the disinherited Saxon knight Ivanhoe, Scott confronts his splendid and tumultuous

Imperial Rome Ad 284 to 363: The New Empire (Harries Jill)(Paperback)

This book is about the reinvention of the Roman Empire during the eighty years between the accession of Diocletian and the death of Julian. How had it changed? The emperors were still warriors and expected to take the field. Rome was still the capital, at least symbolically. There was still a Roman

Empire of Things - How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First (Trentmann Frank)(Paperback / softback)

Magnificent ... groundbreaking ... a triumph' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'A masterpiece, a delight to read ... a rare and beautiful thing' Gerard DeGroot, The TimesWhat we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending, we are treated more

Imperial nostalgia: How the British conquered themselves (Mitchell Peter)(Paperback)

A short, polemical study of the persistence of imperial nostalgia in modern British culture, politics, heritage and