Shadow 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 Shadow Empires write by Thomas J. Barfield. This book was released on 2023-10-17. Shadow Empires available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern times The world’s first great empires established by the ancient Persians, Chinese, and Romans are well known, but not the empires that emerged on their margins in response to them over the course of 2,500 years. These counterempires or shadow empires, which changed the course of history, include the imperial nomad confederacies that arose in Mongolia and extorted resources from China rather than attempting to conquer it, as well as maritime empires such as ancient Athens that controlled trade without seeking territorial hegemony. In Shadow Empires, Thomas Barfield identifies seven kinds of counterempire and explores their rise, politics, economics, and longevity. What all these counterempires had in common was their interactions with existing empires that created the conditions for their development. When highly successful, these counterempires left the shadows to become the world’s largest empires—for example, those of the medieval Muslim Arabs and of the Mongol heirs of Chinggis Khan. Three former shadow empires—Manchu Qing China, Tsarist Russia, and British India—made this transformation in the late eighteenth century and came to rule most of Eurasia. However, the DNA of their origins endured in their unique ruling strategies. Indeed, world powers still use these strategies today, long after their roots in shadow empires have been forgotten. Looking afresh at the histories of important types of empires that are often ignored, Shadow Empires provides an original account of empire formation from the ancient world to the early modern period.
International Status in the Shadow of Empire
International Status in the Shadow 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 International Status in the Shadow of Empire write by Cait Storr. This book was released on 2020-09-17. International Status in the Shadow of Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers a new account of Nauru's imperial history and examines its significance in the history of international law.
Faith Conquers
Faith Conquers - 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 Faith Conquers write by Christopher Moeller. This book was released on 2004. Faith Conquers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Faith Conquers kicks off the release of the highly anticipated Iron Empires role-playing game, as well as a series of new Iron Empires adventures in the months to follow. Volume 1 collects the 4 part series originally titled Shadow Empires, and features the three-part story The Passage, now in full colour for the first time!
Empire of Shadows
Empire of Shadows - 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 of Shadows write by George Black. This book was released on 2012-03-27. Empire of Shadows available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "George Black rediscovers the history and lore of one of the planet's most magnificent landscapes. Read Empire of Shadows, and you'll never think of our first—in many ways our greatest—national park in the same way again." —Hampton Sides, author of Blood and Thunder Empire of Shadows is the epic story of the conquest of Yellowstone, a landscape uninhabited, inaccessible and shrouded in myth in the aftermath of the Civil War. In a radical reinterpretation of the nineteenth century West, George Black casts Yellowstone's creation as the culmination of three interwoven strands of history - the passion for exploration, the violence of the Indian Wars and the "civilizing" of the frontier - and charts its course through the lives of those who sought to lay bare its mysteries: Lt. Gustavus Cheyney Doane, a gifted but tormented cavalryman known as "the man who invented Wonderland"; the ambitious former vigilante leader Nathaniel Langford; scientist Ferdinand Hayden, who brought photographer William Henry Jackson and painter Thomas Moran to Yellowstone; and Gen. Phil Sheridan, Civil War hero and architect of the Indian Wars, who finally succeeded in having the new National Park placed under the protection of the US Cavalry. George Black1s Empire of Shadows is a groundbreaking historical account of the origins of America1s majestic national landmark.
Nomads in the Shadows of Empires
Nomads in the Shadows 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 Nomads in the Shadows of Empires write by Gufu Oba. This book was released on 2013-07-11. Nomads in the Shadows of Empires available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Nomads in the Shadows of Empires Gufu Oba presents accounts of why the legacies of banditry and ethnic conflicts have proved so difficult to resolve along the southern Ethiopian and northern Kenyan frontier. Using interpretative and comparative methods to dialogue the relationships between different political actors on both sides of the frontier, the work captures the dynamics of political events related to imperial contests over borders and trans-frontier treaty. A complex evolution of inter-societal relations, as well as the relations between partitioned nomads and the imperial states had resulted in persistent conflicts. This work improves the understanding why frontier pastoralists continue to experience conflict over land, even after the transfer of the tribal territories to the imperial and postcolonial states. Please click here to watch an interview with the author in Oromo.
