Union and 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 Union and Empire write by Allan I. Macinnes. This book was released on 2007-12-06. Union and Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A major interpretation of the 1707 Act of Union and the making of the United Kingdom.
Empire of Nations
Empire of Nations - 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 Nations write by Francine Hirsch. This book was released on 2014-10-03. Empire of Nations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917, they set themselves the task of building socialism in the vast landscape of the former Russian Empire, a territory populated by hundreds of different peoples belonging to a multitude of linguistic, religious, and ethnic groups. Before 1917, the Bolsheviks had called for the national self-determination of all peoples and had condemned all forms of colonization as exploitative. After attaining power, however, they began to express concern that it would not be possible for Soviet Russia to survive without the cotton of Turkestan and the oil of the Caucasus. In an effort to reconcile their anti-imperialist position with their desire to hold on to as much territory as possible, the Bolsheviks integrated the national idea into the administrative-territorial structure of the new Soviet state. In Empire of Nations, Francine Hirsch examines the ways in which former imperial ethnographers and local elites provided the Bolsheviks with ethnographic knowledge that shaped the very formation of the new Soviet Union. The ethnographers—who drew inspiration from the Western European colonial context—produced all-union censuses, assisted government commissions charged with delimiting the USSR's internal borders, led expeditions to study "the human being as a productive force," and created ethnographic exhibits about the "Peoples of the USSR." In the 1930s, they would lead the Soviet campaign against Nazi race theories . Hirsch illuminates the pervasive tension between the colonial-economic and ethnographic definitions of Soviet territory; this tension informed Soviet social, economic, and administrative structures. A major contribution to the history of Russia and the Soviet Union, Empire of Nations also offers new insights into the connection between ethnography and empire.
The Last Empire
The Last 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 The Last Empire write by Serhii Plokhy. This book was released on 2015-09-08. The Last Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The New York Times bestselling author of The Gates of Europe offers “a stirring account of an extraordinary moment” in Russian history (Wall Street Journal) On Christmas Day, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to declare an American victory in the Cold War: earlier that day Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned as the first and last Soviet president. The enshrining of that narrative, one in which the end of the Cold War was linked to the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the triumph of democratic values over communism, took center stage in American public discourse immediately after Bush's speech and has persisted for decades -- with disastrous consequences for American standing in the world. As prize-winning historian Serhii Plokhy reveals in The Last Empire, the collapse of the Soviet Union was anything but the handiwork of the United States. Bush, in fact, was firmly committed to supporting Gorbachev as he attempted to hold together the USSR in the face of growing independence movements in its republics. Drawing on recently declassified documents and original interviews with key participants, Plokhy presents a bold new interpretation of the Soviet Union's final months, providing invaluable insight into the origins of the current Russian-Ukrainian conflict and the outset of the most dangerous crisis in East-West relations since the end of the Cold War. Winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize Winner of the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize Choice Outstanding Academic Title BBC History Magazine Best History Book of the Year
Revisiting the European Union as Empire
Revisiting the European Union as 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 Revisiting the European Union as Empire write by Hartmut Behr. This book was released on 2015-06-26. Revisiting the European Union as Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The European Union’s stalled expansion, the Euro deficit and emerging crises of economic and political sovereignty in Greece, Italy and Spain have significantly altered the image of the EU as a model of progressive civilization. However, despite recent events the EU maintains its international image as the paragon of European politics and global governance. This book unites leading scholars on Europe and Empire to revisit the view of the European Union as an ‘imperial’ power. It offers a re-appraisal of the EU as empire in response to geopolitical and economic developments since 2007 and asks if the policies, practices, and priorities of the Union exhibit characteristics of a modern empire. This text will be of key interest to students and scholars of the EU, European studies, history, sociology, international relations, and economics.
A Union for Empire
A Union for 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 A Union for Empire write by John Robertson. This book was released on 2006-11-02. A Union for Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Essays by leading historians which explore the political significance of the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707.
