Heroes of Conquest and Empire (Classic Reprint)

Heroes of Conquest and Empire (Classic Reprint)
Author: Etta M. Underwood
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2017-11-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780331471373

Excerpt from Heroes of Conquest and Empire Whenever girls and boys work and play to gether, some of them are sure to be leaders. One may be a leader in a game, in thinking of helpful acts, or in making lessons worth while. How may we know which leaders are good ones? How may a leader know when he is doing right? Perhaps this book will help. You in learning to choose good leaders, for it tells of heroes who were so splendid that for hundreds of years girls and boys, and men and women, have enjoyed learning about them. It may tell, too, What a leader needs to. Do. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Heroes of Empire

Heroes of Empire
Author: Edward Berenson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2011
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0520272587

Examines, through the lives of five important English and French figures, the history of the exploration and colonization of Africa between 1870 and 1914, and the role the mass media played in promoting colonial conquest.

Heroes of Empire

Heroes of Empire
Author: Richard Frohock
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780874138795

Over the past decade, literary scholars have become increasingly engaged with colonial studies and have fashioned various points of focus in their investigations of imperialist narratives, including the figure of woman, cannibalism, the romance of the first encounter, and the tropicopolitan. This book builds on existing work by offering a new focal point: the evolution of the British imperial hero in America from Sir Walter Ralegh's Discoverie of... Guiana (1596) to James Grainger's The Sugar Cane (1764), with concentration on narratives produced between the year of Cromwell's Western Design (1655) and the British raid on Cartegena (1741). Each individual chapter isolates a distinct type of colonial hero, furnishing examples from a wide variety of narratives, including some nonfiction essays and tracts, but chiefly novels, plays, and poems.

Edge of Empire

Edge of Empire
Author: Maya Jasanoff
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 0307425711

In this imaginative book, Maya Jasanoff uncovers the extraordinary stories of collectors who lived on the frontiers of the British Empire in India and Egypt, tracing their exploits to tell an intimate history of imperialism. Jasanoff delves beneath the grand narratives of power, exploitation, and resistance to look at the British Empire through the eyes of the people caught up in it. Written and researched on four continents, Edge of Empire enters a world where people lived, loved, mingled, and identified with one another in ways richer and more complex than previous accounts have led us to believe were possible. And as this book demonstrates, traces of that world remain tangible—and topical—today. An innovative, persuasive, and provocative work of history.

Conquest and Empire

Conquest and Empire
Author: A. B. Bosworth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 1993-03-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107717256

This book is an exploration of the process and consequences of the campaigns of Alexander the Great of Macedon (who reigned from 336 to 323 BC), focusing on the effect of his monarchy upon the world of his day. A detailed running narrative of the actual campaigns from the Danube to the Indus is complemented and enlarged upon by thematic studies on the reaction in Greece to Macedonian suzerainty, the administration of the empire, the evolution of the Macedonian army and its role as the instrument of conquest, and on the origins of the ruler cult.

The Eagle's Conquest

The Eagle's Conquest
Author: Simon Scarrow
Publisher:
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2001
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN: 9780747272830

When Centurion Macro arrives on the shores of Britain to take part in the Emperor Claudius's invasion in the summer of AD 43, he knows he will be facing one of the toughest campaigns of his battle-scarred career. But nothing could have prepared him for the brutality and bravery of the British warriors. In a series of bloody battles, Macro and his young subordinate, Optio Cato, and the desperately outnumbered Roman army, must find and defeat the enemy before he can grow strong enough to overwhelm the legions. But the Britons are not the only foe facing Macro and Cato. A sinister organisation opposed to the Emperor is secretly betraying the brave men of the legions. And when rumours of an assassination attempt coincide with the Emperor's arrival on British soil, the soldiers realise they are up against a force more ruthless than their acknowledged enemy, and that time is running out if they are to prevent Claudius's glorious victory turning to disaster.

Romantic Epics and the Mission of Empire

Romantic Epics and the Mission of Empire
Author: Matthew Leporati
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2023-11-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1009285181

A lively account of the Romantic-era revival of epic literature set against the background of British imperialism's evangelical turn.

John and Postcolonialism

John and Postcolonialism
Author: Musa W. Dube Shomanah
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2002-09-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1841273120

An exciting collection of essays connecting postcolonialism and the Gospel of John, written by a group of international scholars, both established and new, from Hispanic, African, Jewish, Chinese, Korean and African-American backgrounds. It explores important topics such as the appropriation of John in settler communities of the United States and Canada, and the use of John in the colonisation of Africa, Asia, Latin America and New Zealand.The interpreters represent communities of borderland dwellers, women in colonised settings, minority ethnic groups within colonised centres and others. In an era of rapid globalisation, increased travel, rising diasporic communities and neo-colonialism, it is crucial that biblical scholars find ways to address this world with critical skill and sensitivity. This book fills this need.

Peoples and Empires

Peoples and Empires
Author: Anthony Pagden
Publisher: Modern Library
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 0307431592

Written by one of the world’s foremost historians of human migration, Peoples and Empires is the story of the great European empires—the Roman, the Spanish, the French, the British—and their colonies, and the back-and-forth between “us” and “them,” culture and nature, civilization and barbarism, the center and the periphery. It’s the history of how conquerors justified conquest, and how colonists and the colonized changed each other beyond all recognition.