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Author | : Ernest Gellner |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226287025 |
Elucidates and argues for the author's concept of human history from the past to the present.
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Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1991 |
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Author | : Matthew Innes |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780415215077 |
This comprehensive survey synthesises a quarter of a century of pathbreaking research in an accessible manner for undergraduate students. Matthew Innes combines an account of the historical background of the period with discussion of the social, economic, cultural and political structures within it.
Author | : Johannes H.L. Bosman |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 743 |
Release | : 2011-05-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1462899811 |
I became intrigued by an excerpt I read in the Pretoria news circa twenty years ago where it was reported that there is a graveyard in a town named Ambala near New Delhi India, which contain the mortal remains of eighteen Boer Prisoners of war. I built the novel around these men. The book is largely based on fact and could not have been written without giving credit to various authors who have written about this war. Both factual and fictional characters and events are intertwined in a sequence captured within the timeline.
Author | : Jennifer E. Sessions |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2017-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801454468 |
In 1830, with France's colonial empire in ruins, Charles X ordered his army to invade Ottoman Algiers. Victory did not salvage his regime from revolution, but it began the French conquest of Algeria, which was continued and consolidated by the succeeding July Monarchy. In By Sword and Plow, Jennifer E. Sessions explains why France chose first to conquer Algeria and then to transform it into its only large-scale settler colony. Deftly reconstructing the political culture of mid-nineteenth-century France, she also sheds light on policies whose long-term consequences remain a source of social, cultural, and political tensions in France and its former colony. In Sessions's view, French expansion in North Africa was rooted in contests over sovereignty and male citizenship in the wake of the Atlantic revolutions of the eighteenth century. The French monarchy embraced warfare as a means to legitimize new forms of rule, incorporating the Algerian army into royal iconography and public festivals. Colorful broadsides, songs, and plays depicted the men of the Armée d'Afrique as citizen soldiers. Social reformers and colonial theorists formulated plans to settle Algeria with European emigrants. The propaganda used to recruit settlers featured imagery celebrating Algeria's agricultural potential, but the male emigrants who responded were primarily poor, urban laborers who saw the colony as a place to exercise what they saw as their right to work. Generously illustrated with examples of this imperialist iconography, Sessions's work connects a wide-ranging culture of empire to specific policies of colonization during a pivotal period in the genesis of modern France.
Author | : Peter Walpot |
Publisher | : The Plough Publishing House |
Total Pages | : 103 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Hutterian Brethren |
ISBN | : 0874868785 |
Author | : Arno Mayer |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 617 |
Release | : 2021-01-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1839761687 |
In this authoritative text, Arno J. Mayer traces the thinkers, leaders and shifting geopolitical contexts that shaped the founding and onward development of the Israeli state. He recovers for posterity internal critics such as the philosopher Martin Buber who argued for peaceful coexistence with the Palestinian Arabs. 'A sense of limits is the better part of valour', Mayer insists. Plowshares into Swords explores Israeli's indefinite deferral of the 'Arab Question', the strategic thinking behind its settlement building and border walls, and the endurance of Palestinian resistance.
Author | : Jayita Sarkar |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2022-07-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501764411 |
India's nuclear program is often misunderstood as an inward-looking endeavor of secretive technocrats. In Ploughshares and Swords, Jayita Sarkar challenges this received wisdom, narrating a global story of India's nuclear program during its first forty years. The book foregrounds the program's civilian and military features by probing its close relationship with the space program. Through nuclear and space technologies, India's leaders served the technopolitical aims of economic modernity and the geopolitical goals of deterring adversaries. The politically savvy, transnationally connected scientists and engineers who steered the program obtained technologies, materials, and information through a variety of state and nonstate actors from Europe and North America, including both superpowers. They thus maneuvered around Cold War politics and the choke points of the nonproliferation regime. Hyperdiversification increased choices for the leaders of the nuclear program but reduced democratic accountability at home. The nuclear program became a consensus-enforcing device in the name of the nation. Ploughshares and Swords is a provocative new history with global implications. It shows how geopolitical and technopolitical visions influence decisions about the nation after decolonization. Thanks to generous funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
Author | : David Ekbladh |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2022-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226820491 |
Introduction: Knowledge in Exile -- The League Is the Thing: International Society's Super-University -- Plowshares into Swords: Knowledge, Weaponized -- Internationalist Dunkirk: International Society in Exile -- The Rover Boys of Reconstruction: International Society in the American World -- Coda: Great Leaps Forward.
Author | : Peter Mommsen |
Publisher | : The Plough Publishing House |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0874869307 |
People who knew J. Heinrich Arnold (1913-1982) say they never met another person like him. In his presence, complete strangers poured out their darkest secrets and left transformed. Others wanted him dead. Author Henri Nouwen called him a prophetic voice and wrote of how his writings touched me as a double-edged sword, calling me to choose between truth and lies, selflessness and selfishness... Few knew Arnold's past, or could have imagined the crucibles he endured. Until now.