Автор: Rina Kent, Kent Название: Empire of desire ISBN: 1685450008 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781685450007 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2757.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: "Powered by insight and true wit." - Meg Wolitzer, New York Times bestselling author of The Female Persuasion. "I can`t remember the last time I was as completely bewitched by a fictional character as I was by Bea Seger . . . What a treat to view life through the eyes of this funny, smart, gutsy woman." - Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and Chances Are...
Автор: Hanna Mark G. Название: Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740 ISBN: 1469636042 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469636047 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5016.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Analyzing the rise and subsequent fall of international piracy from the perspective of colonial hinterlands, Mark G. Hanna explores the often overt support of sea marauders in maritime communities from the inception of England's burgeoning empire in the 1570s to its administrative consolidation by the 1740s. Although traditionally depicted as swashbuckling adventurers on the high seas, pirates played a crucial role on land. Far from a hindrance to trade, their enterprises contributed to commercial development and to the economic infrastructure of port towns.English piracy and unregulated privateering flourished in the Pacific, the Caribbean, and the Indian Ocean because of merchant elites' active support in the North American colonies. Sea marauders represented a real as well as a symbolic challenge to legal and commercial policies formulated by distant and ineffectual administrative bodies that undermined the financial prosperity and defense of the colonies. Departing from previous understandings of deep-sea marauding, this study reveals the full scope of pirates' activities in relation to the landed communities that they serviced and their impact on patterns of development that formed early America and the British Empire.
Автор: Walvin James, Mccue J Michael, Millikan R Alan, Название: Black Ivory ISBN: 0631229604 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780631229605 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 4744.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: * Argues that slavery transformed the tastes and economy of the western world * Illustrated with frequent reference to individual lives * New edition incorporates recent scholarly findings * Notes and bibliography have been updated.
Автор: Garneau Franc Ois Xavier Название: Histoire Du Canada, Depuis Sa de Couverte Jusqu`a Nos Jours. ISBN: 1249022576 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781249022572 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4931.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Sarah Kinkel shows that the rise of British naval power was neither inevitable nor unquestioned: it was the outcome of fierce battles over the shape of Britain`s empire and the bonds of political authority. The Navy was one of many battlefields where British subjects debated whether the empire would be ruled from Parliament down or the people up.
Описание: By placing the War of 1812 in a global context, Troy Bickham narrates America`s bid for postcolonial sovereignty and Britain`s attempt to block it, a conflict that put the fate of North America and Britain`s global supremacy on the line.
Описание: When Great Britain and its dominions declared war on Germany in August 1914, they were faced with the formidable challenge of transforming masses of untrained citizen-soldiers at home and abroad into competent, coordinated fighting divisions. The Empire on the Western Front focuses on the development of two units, Britain’s 62nd (2nd West Riding) Division and the Canadian 4th Division, to show how the British Expeditionary Force rose to this challenge. By turning the spotlight on army formation and operations at the divisional level, Jackson calls into question existing accounts that emphasize the differences between the imperial and dominion armies.
Автор: Perry, Adele (university Of Manitoba, Canada) Название: Colonial relations ISBN: 1108440010 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108440011 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A new perspective on the nineteenth-century imperial world through one family`s history across North America, the Caribbean and United Kingdom. Revealing how these figures demonstrate complicated historical trajectories of empire and nation, Adele Perry illustrates how gender, intimacy, and family were key to making and remaking imperial politics.
Название: Fighting with the empire ISBN: 0774860413 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780774860413 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4132.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Canadians often characterize their military history as a march toward nationhood, but in the first eighty years of Confederation they were fighting for the British Empire. War forced Canadians to re-examine their relationship to Britain and to one another. As French Canadians, Indigenous peoples, and those with roots in continental Europe and beyond mobilized for war, their participation challenged the imagined homogeneity of Canada as a British nation. Fighting with the Empire examines the paradox of a national contribution to an imperial war effort, finding middle ground between affirming the emergence of a nation through warfare and equating Canadian nationalism with British imperialism.
Описание: In Canada`s Great War, 1914-1918, historian Brian Douglas Tennyson argues that Canada`s enthusiasm had the ironic effect of bringing this British Dominion nation much closer to its southern neighbor, the United States, especially after the latter joined the fray.
Автор: Bruce Gilley Название: Last Imperialist ISBN: 1684512174 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781684512171 Издательство: Simon&Schuster UK Рейтинг: Цена: 3630.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The British Empire, one of the most powerful forces in history, was also one of the most humane. Yet at its twilight, few were willing to defy the anti-colonial reaction that condemned millions to despotism under the regimes that replaced it. Sir Alan Burns was among them. In this lively and provocative work of history, Bruce Gilley vindicates Sir Alan's view that decolonization was poorly managed and too swiftly executed, a view based not on imperialist nostalgia but on a sober assessment of the ravages of the twentieth century. Gilley demonstrates that Burns understood the benefits of colonial rule and correctly foretold the chaos that accompanied its rapid dissolution. Relying on previously unavailable documentation from Burns's family, The Last Imperialist dethrones the revisionist historians and shatters their unbalanced accusations against European colonialism. This is history writing at its most courageous. "Bruce Gilley has had to endure the most vituperative attacks for arguing that the European empires conferred benefits as well as imposed costs. . . Now, with this absorbing biography . . . Bruce Gilley has written a compelling as well as courageous work." --Niall Ferguson, Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University
