Автор: Todd Emmanuel Название: After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order ISBN: 0231131038 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231131032 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 3194.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: As America`s global dominance evaporates, the author foresees a replacement by an emergence of a Eurasian alliance bringing together Europe, Russia, Japan, and the Arab-Islamic world. He takes stock of many negative trends, including America`s weakened commitment to the socio-economic integration of African Americans.
Описание: A unique study which uses the collapse of Tsarist Russia and its consequences to argue that the events on the often-forgotten Eastern Front of WWI had a stronger impact on the outcome of the war than is usually accepted.
Автор: Partha Chatterjee Название: The Black Hole of Empire ISBN: 0691152012 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691152011 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 5544.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: When Siraj, the ruler of Bengal, overran the British settlement of Calcutta in 1756, he allegedly jailed 146 European prisoners overnight in a cramped prison. Of the group, 123 died of suffocation. This title follows the ever-changing representations of this historical event and founding myth of the British Empire in India.
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: Galpern Название: Money, Oil, and Empire in the Middle East ISBN: 1107657180 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107657182 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6653.00 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.
Описание: The term "civilization" comes with considerable baggage, setting up a dichotomy wherein people, cultures, and histories are "civilized" - or not. This book examines how the idea of civilization has informed our thinking about international relations over the course of ten centuries.
Автор: Dandelet Название: The Renaissance of Empire in Early Modern Europe ISBN: 0521747325 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521747325 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3958.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Examines the intellectual and artistic foundations of the Imperial Renaissance in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italy and traces its political realization in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe.
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.
Автор: Van Vleck Jenifer Название: Empire of the Air ISBN: 0674050940 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674050945 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 7912.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Jenifer Van Vleck`s Empire of the Air reveals the central role commercial aviation played in the U.S. ascent to global preeminence in the twentieth century, as the federal government partnered with the aviation industry to deliver American power across the globe and sell the idea of the "American Century" to the public at home and abroad.
Автор: Alain M. Gowing Название: Empire and memory ISBN: 0521544807 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521544801 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5386.00 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.
Описание: Traces the ways in which Spain went from being central to European history and identity during the early modern period to being marginalized and displaced by England, France, and Germany during the Romantic period. This book points out that it has been an assumption tainting literary criticism that Spain did not have a strong Romantic movement.
Автор: Burns James Название: Cinema and Society in the British Empire, 1895-1940 ISBN: 113730801X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137308016 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11179.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: By 1940 going to the movies was the most popular form of public leisure in Britain`s empire. This book explores the social and cultural impact of the movies in colonial societies in the early cinema age.
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