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Author | : Elisabeth Heijmans |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2019-10-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9004414401 |
In The Agency of Empire: Connections and Strategies in French Expansion (1686-1746) Elisabeth Heijmans places directors and their connections at the centre of the developments and operations of French overseas companies.
Author | : Khary Oronde Polk |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2020-04-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469655519 |
From 1898 onward, the expansion of American militarism and empire abroad increasingly relied on black labor, even as policy remained inflected both by scientific racism and by fears of contagion. Black men and women were mobilized for service in the Spanish-Cuban-American War under the War Department's belief that southern blacks carried an immunity against tropical diseases. Later, in World Wars I and II, black troops were stigmatized as members of a contagious "venereal race" and were subjected to experimental medical treatments meant to curtail their sexual desires. By turns feared as contagious and at other times valued for their immunity, black men and women played an important part in the U.S. military's conscription of racial, gender, and sexual difference, even as they exercised their embattled agency at home and abroad. By following the scientific, medical, and cultural history of African American enlistment through the archive of American militarism, this book traces the black subjects and agents of empire as they came into contact with a world globalized by warfare.
Author | : Sean Gailmard |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2024-05-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 100931694X |
To understand the foundations of American political institutions, it's necessary to understand the rationale for British colonial institutions that survived the empire. Political institutions in England's American colonies were neither direct imports from England, nor home-grown creations of autonomous colonists. Instead, they emerged from efforts of the English Crown to assert control over their colonies amid limited English state and military capacity. Agents of Empire explores the strategic dilemmas facing a constrained crown in its attempts to assert control. The study argues that colonial institutions emerged from the crown's management of authority delegated to agents-first companies and proprietors establishing colonies; then imperial officials governing the polities they created. The institutions remaining from these strategic dynamics form the building blocks of federalism, legislative power, separation of powers, judicial review, and other institutions that comprise the American polity today.
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Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2018 |
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Author | : Manu Karuka |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2019-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520969057 |
Empire’s Tracks boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes, and the Chinese migrants who toiled on its path. In this meticulously researched book, Manu Karuka situates the railroad within the violent global histories of colonialism and capitalism. Through an examination of legislative, military, and business records, Karuka deftly explains the imperial foundations of U.S. political economy. Tracing the shared paths of Indigenous and Asian American histories, this multisited interdisciplinary study connects military occupation to exclusionary border policies, a linked chain spanning the heart of U.S. imperialism. This highly original and beautifully wrought book unveils how the transcontinental railroad laid the tracks of the U.S. Empire.
Author | : Anna L. Boozer |
Publisher | : University of New Mexico Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2020-10-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0826361765 |
Throughout history, a large portion of the world’s population has lived under imperial rule. Although scholars do not always agree on when and where the roots of imperialism lie, most would agree that imperial configurations have affected human history so profoundly that the legacy of ancient empires continues to structure the modern world in many ways. Empires are best described as heterogeneous and dynamic patchworks of imperial configurations in which imperial power was the outcome of the complex interaction between evolving colonial structures and various types of agents in highly contingent relationships. The goal of this volume is to harness the work of the “next generation” of empire scholars in order to foster new theoretical and methodological perspectives that are of relevance within and beyond archaeology and to foreground empires as a cross-cultural category. This book demonstrates how archaeological research can contribute to our conceptualization of empires across disciplinary boundaries.
Author | : Joshua Peter Hill |
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Release | : 2009 |
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Author | : Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 2024-02-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1503637751 |
Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million North Caucasian Muslims sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire. This resettlement of Muslim refugees from Russia changed the Ottoman state. Circassians, Chechens, Dagestanis, and others established hundreds of refugee villages throughout the Ottoman Balkans, Anatolia, and the Levant. Most villages still exist today, including what is now the city of Amman. Muslim refugee resettlement reinvigorated regional economies, but also intensified competition over land and, at times, precipitated sectarian tensions, setting in motion fundamental shifts in the borderlands of the Russian and Ottoman empires. Empire of Refugees reframes late Ottoman history through mass displacement and reveals the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky offers a historiographical corrective: the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire created a refugee regime, predating refugee systems set up by the League of Nations and the United Nations. Grounded in archival research in over twenty public and private archives across ten countries, this book contests the boundaries typically assumed between forced and voluntary migration, and refugees and immigrants, rewriting the history of Muslim migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author | : Chansing Goh |
Publisher | : Flintlock Publishing |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2015-03-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 967133010X |
Penang - 1811 As the French Emperor Napoleon continues the conquest of Europe, his war extends over to the far side of the world. Nautilus, an East India Company ship in the British Java Expedition Fleet has been sabotaged while anchored in George Town’s waters. You are an Ackerton & Co. Agent and you are tasked with finding this saboteur and bringing him to justice. The search is wide, George Town is a metropolitan settlement with people from all over India, East Indies, China, and Europe; finding the saboteur will not be easy. Can you do it before he strikes again? In this gamebook, you are the hero and this is your story.
Author | : Ian Tyrrell |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2015-02-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801455707 |
Empire's Twin broadens our conception of anti-imperialist actors, ideas, and actions; it charts this story across the range of American history, from the Revolution to our own era; and it opens up the transnational and global dimensions of American anti-imperialism.