Описание: A unique military and cultural history that chronicles the reigns of Philip and Alexander the Great in one sweeping narrative.
Автор: Galpern Название: Money, Oil, and Empire in the Middle East ISBN: 1107657180 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107657182 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5015 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Examining events such as the Iranian oil nationalization crisis and the Suez crisis, this book is an important history of the unravelling of the British Empire in the Middle East and its connections to the decline of sterling as a leading international currency and British oil policy in the region.
Автор: Frederick Cooper Название: Tensions of empire : ISBN: 0520206053 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520206052 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 4092 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Starting with the premise that Europe was made by its imperial projects as much as colonial encounters were shaped by events and conflicts in Europe, this volume investigates metropolitan-colonial relationships. It shows how "civilizing missions" often provided new sites for a bourgeois order.
Описание: This work seeks to elucidate the end of Empire in relation to its beginning, the meaning of British imperialism for the ruled as well as for the rulers, and the significance of the British Empire as a theme in world history. This volume covers the 19th century.
Описание: The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. In this new volume on the last century of empire there are chapters on imperial centres, on the geographical `periphery` of empire, and on all its connecting mechanisms, including institutions and the flow of people, money, goods, and services. The volume also explores the experience of`imperial subjects` in terms of culture, politics, and economics; an experience which culminated in the growth of vibrant, often new, national identities and movements and, ultimately, new nation-states. It concludes with the processes of decolonization which reshaped the political map of the late twentieth-centuryworld.
Описание: Assessing the British Empire in the light of scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records, this volume explores the origins of empire. It shows how and why England, and later Britain, became involved with transoceanic navigation, trade, and settlement during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Автор: McAleer Название: Britain`s Maritime Empire ISBN: 1107100720 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107100725 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 12936 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Analyses the critical role played by the maritime gateway to Asia around the Cape of Good Hope in the development of the British Empire. Focusing on a region that connected the Atlantic and Indian oceans at the centre of a vital maritime chain linking Europe with Asia, the book re-examines and reappraises Britain`s oceanic empire.
Автор: Alain M. Gowing Название: Empire and memory ISBN: 0521544807 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521544801 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4091 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book explores how the memory of the Roman Republic manifested itself over the course of the early Empire (AD 14-117). Case-studies are presented of major imperial authors and key monuments in order to trace the relationship between memory and history in Roman thought.
Автор: Simmons, Michael Bland Название: Universal Salvation in Late Antiquity ISBN: 0190202394 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190202392 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14520 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A new study of Porphyrian soteriology, or the concept of the salvation of the soul, in the thought of Porphyry of Tyre
Автор: Ranke Название: Universal History ISBN: 1108075185 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108075183 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4751 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Published in 1884, this work in English translation, though limited to the Mediterranean and the Middle East, takes a broad overview of `the oldest historical group of nations and the Greeks`. Leopold von Ranke (1795-1886) begins with ancient Egypt and concludes with Alexander the Great and his immediate successors.
Описание: A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities is a serendipitous collection of odd facts and opinions about life and culture in ancient Rome, gleaned from a wide body of ancient evidence.
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