Eclipse of Empires - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eclipse of Empires write by Patricia Jane Roylance. This book was released on 2013-10. Eclipse of Empires available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book analyzes the nineteenth-century American fascination with what the author calls "narratives of imperial eclipse," texts that depict the surpassing of one great civilization by another. The central claim in this book is that historical episodes of imperial eclipse - for example, Incan Peru yielding to Spain, or the Ojibway to the French - heightened the concerns of many American writers about specific intranational social problems plaguing the nation at the time: race, class, gender, religion, and economics.
Endless Empire
Endless Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Endless Empire write by Alfred W. McCoy. This book was released on 2012. Endless Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "As Brazil, Russia, India, China, and the European Union now rise in global influence, twenty leading historians from four continents take a timely look backward and forward to discover patterns of eclipse in past empires that are already shaping a decline in U.S. global power"--Page 4 of cover.
Empire and the Sun
Empire and the Sun - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empire and the Sun write by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang. This book was released on 2002. Empire and the Sun available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Astronomy was a popular and important part of Victorian sciences, and British astronomers carried telescopes to remote areas in India, North America, and Caribbean and Pacific islands to watch solar eclipses. This book tells the full story of these expeditions: the long periods of planning and financing, and the day-to-day work of getting to field sites, setting up camp, and preparing, observing, and recording eclipses.
Echoes of Empire
Echoes of Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Echoes of Empire write by Kalypso Nicolaïdis. This book was released on 2014-12-23. Echoes of Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How does our colonial past echo through today's global politics? How have former empire-builders sought vindication or atonement, and formerly colonized states reversal or retribution? This groundbreaking book presents a panoramic view of attitudes to empires past and present, seen not only through the hard politics of international power structures but also through the nuances of memory, historiography and national and minority cultural identities. Bringing together leading historians, poitical scientists and international relations scholars from across the globe, Echoes of Empire emphasizes Europe's colonial legacy whilst also highlighting the importance of non-European power centres- Ottoman, Russian, Chinese, Japanese- in shaping world politics, then and now. Echoes of Empire bridges the divide between disciplines to trace the global routes travelled by objects, ideas and people and forms a radically different notion of the term 'empire' itself. This will be an essential companion to courses on international relations and imperial history as well as a fascinating read for anyone interested in Wesern hegemony, North-South relations, global power shifts and the longue duree.
Empires of Knowledge
Empires of Knowledge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empires of Knowledge write by Paula Findlen. This book was released on 2018-10-26. Empires of Knowledge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Empires of Knowledge charts the emergence of different kinds of scientific networks – local and long-distance, informal and institutional, religious and secular – as one of the important phenomena of the early modern world. It seeks to answer questions about what role these networks played in making knowledge, how information traveled, how it was transformed by travel, and who the brokers of this world were. Bringing together an international group of historians of science and medicine, this book looks at the changing relationship between knowledge and community in the early modern period through case studies connecting Europe, Asia, the Ottoman Empire, and the Americas. It explores a landscape of understanding (and misunderstanding) nature through examinations of well-known intelligencers such as overseas missions, trading companies, and empires while incorporating more recent scholarship on the many less prominent go-betweens, such as translators and local experts, which made these networks of knowledge vibrant and truly global institutions. Empires of Knowledge is the perfect introduction to the global history of early modern science and medicine.
