The Tools of Empire
| Author | : Daniel R. Headrick |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 221 |
| Release | : 1981 |
| Genre | : Imperialism |
| ISBN | : 9780195028317 |
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Technology of Empire
| Author | : Daqing Yang |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 480 |
| Release | : 2011-04-18 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1684173795 |
In the extension of the Japanese empire in the 1930s and 1940s, technology, geo-strategy, and institutions were closely intertwined in empire building. The central argument of this study of the development of a communications network linking the far-flung parts of the Japanese imperium is that modern telecommunications not only served to connect these territories but, more important, made it possible for the Japanese to envision an integrated empire in Asia. Even as the imperial communications network served to foster integration and strengthened Japanese leadership and control, its creation and operation exacerbated long-standing tensions and created new conflicts within the government, the military, and society in general.
Underground Empire
| Author | : Henry Farrell |
| Publisher | : Henry Holt and Company |
| Total Pages | : 166 |
| Release | : 2023-09-12 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1250840562 |
Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize A Responsible Statecraft best foreign policy book of 2023 A deeply researched investigation that reveals how the United States is like a spider at the heart of an international web of surveillance and control, which it weaves in the form of globe-spanning networks such as fiber optic cables and obscure payment systems America’s security state first started to weaponize these channels after 9/11, when they seemed like necessities to combat terrorism—but now they’re a matter of course. Multinational companies like AT&T and Citicorp build hubs, which they use to make money, but which the government can also deploy as choke points. Today’s headlines about trade wars, sanctions, and technology disputes are merely tremors hinting at far greater seismic shifts beneath the surface. Slowly but surely, Washington has turned the most vital pathways of the world economy into tools of domination over foreign businesses and countries, whether they are rivals or allies, allowing the U.S. to maintain global supremacy. In the process, we have sleepwalked into a new struggle for empire. Using true stories, field-defining findings, and original reporting, Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman show how the most ordinary aspects of the post–Cold War economy have become realms of subterfuge and coercion, and what we must do to ensure that this new arms race doesn’t spiral out of control.
Liquid Empire
| Author | : Corey Ross |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 464 |
| Release | : 2024-07-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0691261237 |
A bold new account of European imperialism told through the history of water In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a handful of powerful European states controlled more than a third of the land surface of the planet. These sprawling empires encompassed not only rainforests, deserts, and savannahs but also some of the world’s most magnificent rivers, lakes, marshes, and seas. Liquid Empire tells the story of how the waters of the colonial world shaped the history of imperialism, and how this imperial past still haunts us today. Spanning the major European empires of the period, Corey Ross describes how new ideas, technologies, and institutions transformed human engagements with water and how the natural world was reshaped in the process. Water was a realm of imperial power whose control and distribution were closely bound up with colonial hierarchies and inequalities—but this vital natural resource could never be fully tamed. Ross vividly portrays the efforts of officials, engineers, fisherfolk, and farmers to exploit water, and highlights its crucial role in the making and unmaking of the colonial order. Revealing how the legacies of empire have persisted long after colonialism ebbed away, Liquid Empire provides needed historical perspective on the crises engulfing the world’s waters, particularly in the Global South, where billions of people are faced with mounting water shortages, rising flood risks, and the relentless depletion of sea life.
The First World Empire
| Author | : Hélder Carvalhal |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2021-04-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1000372820 |
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the early modern military history of Portugal and its possessions in Africa, the Americas, and Asia from the perspective of the military revolution historiographical debate. The existence of a military revolution in the early modern period has been much debated in international historiography, and this volume fills a significant gap in its relation to the history of Portugal and its overseas empire. It examines different forms of military change in specifically Portuguese case studies but also adopts a global perspective through the analysis of different contexts and episodes in Africa, the Americas, and Asia. Contributors explore whether there is evidence of what could be defined as aspects of a military revolution or whether other explanatory models are needed to account for different forms of military change. In this way, it offers the reader a variety of perspectives that contribute to the debate over the applicability of the military revolution concept to Portugal and its empire during the early modern period. Broken down into four thematic parts and broad in both chronological and geographical scope, the book deepens our understanding of the art of warfare in Portugal and its empire and demonstrates how the military revolution debate can be used to examine military change in a global perspective. This is an essential text for scholars and students of military history, military architecture, global history, Asian history, and the history of Iberian empires.
Waging War
| Author | : Wayne E. Lee |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 561 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199797455 |
Waging War: Conflict, Culture, and Innovation in World History provides a wide-ranging examination of war in human history, from the beginning of the species until the current rise of the so-called Islamic State. Although it covers many societies throughout time, the book does not attempt to tell all stories from all places, nor does it try to narrate "important" conflicts. Instead, author Wayne E. Lee describes the emergence of military innovations and systems, examining how they were created and then how they moved or affected other societies. These innovations are central to most historical narratives, including the development of social complexity, the rise of the state, the role of the steppe horseman, the spread of gunpowder, the rise of the west, the bureaucratization of military institutions, the industrial revolution and the rise of firepower, strategic bombing and nuclear weapons, and the creation of "people's war."
A Singular Remedy
| Author | : Stefanie Gänger |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 255 |
| Release | : 2020-10-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 110884216X |
Innovative exploration of how medical knowledge was shared between and across diverse societies tied to the Atlantic World around 1800.
The 'tools of Empire', H.G Wells, and the Emergence of Science Fiction
| Author | : James Thomas Collinge |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Imperialism in literature |
| ISBN | : |
Submarine Telegraphy and the Hunt for Gutta Percha
| Author | : Helen Godfrey |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 342 |
| Release | : 2018-03-20 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9004357289 |
In Submarine Telegraphy and the Hunt for Gutta Percha, Helen Godfrey traces the connections between submarine telegraphy and the peoples of Singapore and Sarawak (Borneo) who supplied 'gutta percha', the latex insulating the world network of undersea telegraph cables. The book examines the complex inter-relationships linking metropolitan and local environments in a trade once described as a matter of interest to the whole civilized world. Using previously untapped corporate and official archives, trade data and a rich documentary record, the study explores the roles of cable producers, scientists, administrators, and local Chinese and indigenous traders. It reveals how a global trade may transcend technological, geographic and cross-cultural challenges, even hostilities. Motivations and outcomes are more complex than simple commercial gain.
