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  • Ireland in an Imperial World

    Citizenship, Opportunism, and Subversion

    Edited by Timothy G. McMahon, Michael de Nie, Paul Townend ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Ireland in an Imperial World interrogates the myriad ways through which Irish men and women experienced, participated in, and challenged empires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Most importantly, they were integral players simultaneously managing and undermining the British Empire, and through their diasporic communities, they built sophisticated arguments that aided challenges to other ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

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  • Empire

    The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power

    by Niall Ferguson ...
    A bestselling historian shows how the British Empire created the modern world.**“Scrupulous scholarship and a rattling good tale.” —**Wall Street JournalThe British Empire was the largest in all history, its reach the nearest thing to world domination ever achieved. By the eve of the Second World War, over a fifth of the world's land surface and nearly a quarter of the world's population were ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Robin Van Persie

    The Biography

    by Andy Lloyd-Williams ...
    Robin van Persie is one of the most talented players in world football today. An intelligent playmaker and deadly striker, he brings creativity and intelligence to Arsenal's forward line and is the first name on the Netherlands team sheet. Signed by Arsene Wenger in the summer of 2004 with a view to replace Dutch legend Dennis Bergkamp, Van Persie quickly established himself as an integral part of ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • The Egyptians

    A Radical History of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution

    by Jack Shenker ...
    The award-winning journalist and longtime Cairo resident delivers a "meticulous, passionate study" of the ongoing battle for contemporary Egypt ( The Guardian).On January, 25, 2011, a revolution began in Egypt that succeeded in ousting the country's longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak. In The Egyptians, journalist Jack Shenker uncovers the roots of the uprising and explores the country's current state ... Read more

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  • The Birth of Sydney

    by Tim Flannery ...
    The author of the #1 international bestseller, The Weather Makers, provides a stunning portrait of Australia's cultural capital.Sydney, Australia, is one of the world's most beautiful and fascinating cities, home to over five million people and a popular tourist destination. In The Birth of Sydney, scientist and historian Tim Flannery blends the writings of Australian explorers, settlers, leaders, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bali Chronicles

    Fascinating People and Events in Balinese History

    by Willard A. Hanna ...
    This book tells the story of Bali-the "paradise island of the Pacific"-its rulers and its people, and their encounters with the Western world.Balinese history tells a fascinating story. For a thousand years, the peculiar splendor of BalineseHindu culture came very close to satisfying the social, religious and artistic needs of the people. The arrival of European visitors in the 1920s and 1930s ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital

    by Vivek Chibber ...
    Postcolonial theory has become enormously influential as a framework for understanding the Global South. It is also a school of thought popular because of its rejection of the supposedly universalizing categories of the Enlightenment. In this devastating critique, mounted on behalf of the radical Enlightenment tradition, Vivek Chibber offers the most comprehensive response yet to postcolonial ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Understanding Contemporary Ethiopia

    Monarchy, Revolution and the Legacy of Meles Zenawi

    by Gérard Prunier, Éloi Ficquet ...
    When we think of Ethiopia we tend to think in cliches: Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, the Falasha Jews, the epic reign of Emperor Haile Selassie, the Communist Revolution, famine and civil war. Among the countries of Africa it has a high profile yet is poorly known. How- ever all cliches contain within them a kernel of truth, and occlude much more. Today's Ethiopia (and its painfully liberated ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial

    by David Arnold, C.A. Bayly, Tom Brass, Dipesh Chakrabarty ...
    Series series Mappings Series
    Inspired by Antonio Gramsci’s writings on the history of subaltern classes, the authors in Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial sought to contest the elite histories of Indian nationalists by adopting the paradigm of “history from below.” Later on, the project shifted from its social history origins by drawing upon an eclectic group of thinkers that included Edward Said, Roland Barthes, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Turn to Empire

    The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France

    by Jennifer Pitts ...
    A dramatic shift in British and French ideas about empire unfolded in the sixty years straddling the turn of the nineteenth century. As Jennifer Pitts shows in A Turn to Empire, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, and Jeremy Bentham were among many at the start of this period to criticize European empires as unjust as well as politically and economically disastrous for the conquering nations. By the mid ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Magnificent and Beggar Land

    Angola Since the Civil War

    by Ricardo Soares de Oliveira ...
    Magnificent and Beggar Land is a powerful account of fast-changing dynamics in Angola, an important African state that is a key exporter of oil and diamonds and a growing power on the continent. Based on three years of research and extensive first-hand knowledge of Angola, it documents the rise of a major economy and its insertion in the international system since it emerged in 2002 from one of ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Africa in the World

    Capitalism, Empire, Nation-State

    by Frederick Cooper ...
    At the Second World War’s end, it was clear that business as usual in colonized Africa would not resume. W. E. B. Du Bois’s The World and Africa, published in 1946, recognized the depth of the crisis that the war had brought to Europe, and hence to Europe’s domination over much of the globe. Du Bois believed that Africa’s past provided lessons for its future, for international statecraft, and for ... Read more

    $38.69 USD