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Author | : Servando D. Halili |
Publisher | : UP Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789715425056 |
This book makes a postcolonial reading of the American invasion and colonization of the Philippines in 1898. It considers how nineteenth-century American popular culture, specifically political cartoons and caricatures, influenced American foreign policy. These sources, drawn from several U.S. libraries and archives, show how race and gender ideologies significantly influenced the move of the U.S. to annex the Philippines. The book not only includes a significant collection of political cartoons and caricatures about Filipinos, it also offers an alternative interpretation of the reasons why the U.S. ventured into colonial expansion in Asia.
Author | : Brooks Adams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
An attempt to deal, by inductive methods, with the consolidation and dissolution of those administrative masses which we call empires. Includes bibliographical references and index. In 1866, being asked by his publisher to write a short history of Massachusetts, Brooks Adams (1848-1927) broke upon the literary world with The Emancipation of Massachusetts in which he demolished and rewrote the history of the colony and province of Massachusetts Bay, originally chronicled by the priestly oligarchy against which the book was launched, and in later times principally by eminent members of the Congregational clergy. It made a great stir, especially in religious circles, and brought severe criticism and even denunciation upon the author, but he lived to see it pass to a second edition as accepted history. He then turned to a study of trade-routes and their influence upon the history of peoples and nations and in 1896 published The Law of Civilization and Decay: An Essay on History, a work of a high order as history which laid down the principle that human societies differed among themselves in proportion as they were endowed by nature with energy, a principle later developed by Henry Adams. He regarded this as his most significant work. Beginning in 1907 he successfully filled the chair of constitutional law in Boston University. ôPursuing a line of argument already worked out in his Law of Civilization and Decay, Mr. Adams offers an explanation, a theory it may be called, of the rise and decline of successive "empires" from the dawn of history to the present. The objective point of the argument is to account for the present, or imminent, supremacy of America as an imperial power.ö Thorstein Veblen
Author | : Timothy D. Barnes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1982-02-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780674280663 |
Author | : Eugenio Garosi |
Publisher | : de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-06-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783111543864 |
The study delves into the rise of Arabic as an imperial language in the 7th and 8th centuries. It combines insights from papyrological, epigraphic and numismatic evidence to correlate early Islamic scribal practices with broader strategies of imperi
Author | : S. Max Edelson |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2017-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674978994 |
In 1763 British America stretched from Hudson Bay to the Keys, from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. Using maps that Britain created to control its new lands, Max Edelson pictures the contested geography of the British Atlantic world and offers new explanations of the causes and consequences of Britain’s imperial ambitions before the Revolution.
Author | : Henry Vizetelly |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 487 |
Release | : 1879 |
Genre | : Berlin (Germany) |
ISBN | : 1108064892 |
"In Volume 1, Vizetelly describes travelling to Berlin and his mixed first impressions. He sketches a brief history of the city and its development from the thirteenth century onwards, and in a series of essay-style chapters he discusses aspects of Berlin culture and society - including dinner-party etiquette - as well as political and military personalities."--Page 4 of cover.
Author | : Jean D'Ormesson |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2016-05-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1590179668 |
The Glory of the Empire is the rich and absorbing history of an extraordinary empire, at one point a rival to Rome. Rulers such as Basil the Great of Onessa, who founded the Empire but whose treacherous ways made him a byword for infamy, and the romantic Alexis the bastard, who dallied in the fleshpots of Egypt, studied Taoism and Buddhism, returned to save the Empire from civil war, and then retired “to learn to die,” come alive in The Glory of the Empire, along with generals, politicians, prophets, scoundrels, and others. Jean d’Ormesson also goes into the daily life of the Empire, its popular customs, and its contribution to the arts and the sciences, which, as he demonstrates, exercised an influence on the world as a whole, from the East to the West, and whose repercussions are still felt today. But it is all fiction, a thought experiment worthy of Jorge Luis Borges, and in the end The Glory of the Empire emerges as a great shimmering mirage, filling us with wonder even as it makes us wonder at the fugitive nature of power and the meaning of history itself.
Author | : Ernest R. May |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : 9780061316944 |
Author | : Jill Harries |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2012-03-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0748653953 |
This book is about the reinvention of the Roman Empire during the eighty years between the accession of Diocletian and the death of Julian.
Author | : Ross Terrill |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2009-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786740353 |
Some observers expect China to become an economic superpower. Others expect it to fragment into pieces. Is China nationalistic and on the march, or is it a stumbling Communist dinosaur? Is it already a billion-citizen member of the global village? Is it, as the Clinton administration claimed, a "strategic partner" of the U.S.? Ross Terrill addresses the question upon which all these others depend: Is the People's Republic of China, whose polity is a hybrid of Chinese tradition and Western Marxism, willing to become a modern nation or does it insist on remaining an empire? Since the collapse of three thousand years of Confucian monarchy in 1911, China has neither established a successful political system nor adjusted to being a nation state. Today it stands as the most contradictory of major powers, hovering between an unsustainable tradition and a yet-to-be-born political form that would support its new society and economy. Hanging in the balance are the prospect for freedom within China (for both Chinese and non-Chinese citizens of the People's Republic), the future of America's relations with China, and the security of China's neighbors. Drawing upon Terrill's long experience studying China as well as upon new research, this enlightening and rigorous book will be a must-read for everyone who has a stake in the future of the global world order.