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The British Empire Sunrise to Sunset

The British Empire Sunrise to Sunset

The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset is a broad survey of the history of the British Empire from its beginnings to its demise that offers a comprehensive analysis of what life was like under colonial rule weaving the everyday stories of people living through the experience of colonialism into the bigger picture of empire. The experience of the British Empire was not limited to what happened behind closed doors or on the floor of Parliament. It affected men women and children across the globe making a difference to what they ate and what kind of work they did what languages and lessons they learned in school and how they were able to live their lives. This new edition expands its coverage and discusses the relationship between Brexit and empire as well as the recent controversies connected to empire that have engulfed Britain: the Windrush scandal the fight over the Chagos Islands and the Mau Mau lawsuits bringing it up to date and engaging with key debates that govern the study of empire. Painting a picture of life for all those affected by empire and supported by maps and illustrations this is the perfect text for all students of imperial history. | The British Empire Sunrise to Sunset

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The Parthians The Forgotten Empire

The Parthians The Forgotten Empire

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the history and culture of the Parthian Empire which existed for almost 500 years from 247 BC to 224 AD. The Parthians were Rome’s great opponents in the east but comparatively little is known about them. The Parthians focuses on the rise expansion flowering and decline of the Parthian Empire and covers both the wars with the Romans in the west and the nomads in the east. Sources include the small amount from the Empire itself as well as those from outside the Parthian world such as Greek Roman and Chinese documents. Ellerbrock also explores the Parthian military social history religions art architecture and numismatics all supported by a great number of images and maps. The Parthians is an invaluable resource for those studying the Ancient Near East during the period of the Parthian Empire as well as for more general readers interested in this era. | The Parthians The Forgotten Empire

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Life Writing After Empire

Life Writing After Empire

A watershed moment of the twentieth century the end of empire saw upheavals to global power structures and national identities. However decolonisation profoundly affected individual subjectivities too. Life Writing After Empire examines how people around the globe have made sense of the post-imperial condition through the practice of life writing in its multifarious expressions from auto/biography through travel writing to oral history and photography. Through interdisciplinary approaches that draw on literature and history alike the contributors explore how we might approach these genres differently in order to understand how individual life writing reflects broader societal changes. From far-flung corners of the former British Empire people have turned to life writing to manage painful or nostalgic memories as well as to think about the past and future of the nation anew through the personal experience. In a range of innovative and insightful contributions some of the foremost scholars of the field challenge the way we think about narrative memory and identity after empire. This book was originally published as a special issue of Life Writing.

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The British Empire A History and a Debate

The British Empire A History and a Debate

What was the course and consequence of the British Empire? The rights and wrongs strengths and weaknesses of empire are a major topic in global history and deservedly so. Focusing on the most prominent and wide-ranging empire in world history the British empire Jeremy Black provides not only a history of that empire but also a perspective from which to consider the issues of its strengths and weaknesses and rights and wrongs. In short this is history both of the past and of the present-day discussion of the past that recognises that discussion over historical empires is in part a reflection of the consideration of contemporary states. In this book Professor Black weaves together an overview of the British Empire across the centuries with a considered commentary on both the public historiography of empire and the politically-charged character of much discussion of it. There is a coverage here of social as well as political and economic dimensions of empire and both the British perspective and that of the colonies is considered. The chronological dimension is set by the need to consider not only imperial expansion by the British state but also the history of Britain within an imperial context. As such this is a story of empires within the British Isles Europe and later world-wide. The book addresses global decline decolonisation and the complex nature of post-colonialism and different imperial activity in modern and contemporary history. Taking a revisionist approach there is no automatic assumption that imperialism empire and colonialism were ’bad’ things. Instead there is a dispassionate and evidence-based evaluation of the British empire as a form of government an economic system and a method of engagement with the world one with both faults and benefits for the metropole and the colony. | The British Empire A History and a Debate

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President McKinley War and Empire President McKinley and America's New Empire

President McKinley War and Empire President McKinley and America's New Empire

This second volume of President McKinley War and Empire assesses five theories that have dominated analysis of modern societies in the last century-liberalism Marxism mass society pluralism and elitism-in accounting for an aberrant event in American history: the Spanish-American War. President McKinley and the Coming of the War 1898 volume 1 of this definitive history considered the origins of that war. This second volume is concerned with the war's outcome; the settlement in which the U. S. gained an empire. The book begins by reviewing various expansionist episodes in U. S. history-some successes some failures-and by analyzing the complexities support and opposition involved in expansionism. It then examines the work of expansionist writers men said to have driven the 1898-99 movement finding these claims to be questionable. Hamilton assesses McKinley's decision-making in regard to the settlement of the Spanish-American War including the influences that might have moved him as well as his own justifications. He then reviews the subsequent achievements: the size and character of the new American empire; trade flows the Philippine experience and U. S. efforts in China-supposedly the prime goal of the new imperialism. Many contemporary writers anticipated great possibilities in China but that fabled market remained minuscule throughout the following century. Much American trade continued to be with Western Europe while the biggest change in U. S. exports went largely unnoticed-Canada became the nation's number one trading partner. In much historical writing McKinley is portrayed as little more than a front man for Mark Hanna the adept businessman-politician who organized and led his presidential campaign aided by generous financial contributions from business leaders across the nation. Hanna certainly was a leading figure in McKinley's career but the assumption that his influence was controlling is not justified as has been shown in recent research. McKinley was far more than a figurehead easily manipulated by representatives of the interests. | President McKinley War and Empire President McKinley and America's New Empire

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Syrian Influences in the Roman Empire to AD 300

Syrian Influences in the Roman Empire to AD 300

The study of Syria as a Roman province has been neglected by comparison with equivalent geographical regions such as Italy Egypt Greece and even Gaul. It was however one of the economic powerhouses of the empire from its annexation until after the empire’s dissolution. As such it clearly deserves some particular consideration but at the same time it was a major contributor to the military strength of the empire notably in the form of the recruitment of auxiliary regiments several dozens of which were formed from Syrians. Many pagan gods such as Jupiter Dolichenus and Jupiter Heliopolitanus Dea Syra and also Judaism originated in Syria and reached the far bounds of the empire. This book is a consideration based on original sources of the means by which Syrians whose country was only annexed to the empire in 64 BC saw their influence penetrate into all levels of society from private soldiers and ordinary citizens to priests and to imperial families. | Syrian Influences in the Roman Empire to AD 300

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The Ottomans 1700-1923 An Empire Besieged

The Ottomans 1700-1923 An Empire Besieged

Originally conceived as a military history this second edition completes the story of the Middle Eastern populations that underwent significant transformation in the nineteenth century finally imploding in communal violence paramilitary activity and genocide after the Berlin Treaty of 1878. Now called The Ottomans 1700-1923: An Empire Besieged the book charts the evolution of a military system in the era of shrinking borders global consciousness financial collapse and revolutionary fervour. The focus of the text is on those who fought defended and finally challenged the sultan and the system leaving long-lasting legacies in the contemporary Middle East. Richly illustrated the text is accompanied by brief portraits of the friends and foes of the Ottoman house. Written by a foremost scholar of the Ottoman Empire and featuring illustrations that have not been seen in print before this second edition is essential reading for both students and scholars of the Ottoman Empire Ottoman society military and political history and Ottoman-European relations. | The Ottomans 1700-1923 An Empire Besieged

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Theodosius and the Limits of Empire

Theodosius and the Limits of Empire

The emperor Theodosius I (AD 379–395) was one of the most remarkable figures of the late antique period. In the face of religious schism political turmoil and barbarian threats he managed to maintain imperial power and forge a political dynasty that would dominate both east and west for over half a century. This study the first English language biography in over twenty years traces his rise to power and tumultuous reign and examines his indelible impact on a rapidly changing empire. | Theodosius and the Limits of Empire

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The Soviet Empire Reconsidered Essays In Honor Of Adam B. Ulam

The Soviet Empire Reconsidered Essays In Honor Of Adam B. Ulam

The demise of any empire provides an occasion for fresh examination of longaccepted truths about its history and its intrinsic nature: What set this particular empire apart from others? Why did it develop in the way that it did? Could events have taken a different path? What legacies has the empire left to its heirs? In this volume eminent scholars reflect on the unique and central features of the Soviet empire during its period of consolidation in Europe and speculate on the long-term effects of its collapse. They reconsider subjects that have absorbed Adam Ulam's attention in his own work—the ideologies of central planning of totalitarianism and state terror at home and of intervention abroad—and explore their impact on the people who lived under Soviet power at its apogee. They also analyze the unraveling of the system on the domestic scene in elite and grassroots politics and in the international arena. Concluding chapters focus on the configuration of new domestic and foreign policies and on prospects for security and cooperation in the region. | The Soviet Empire Reconsidered Essays In Honor Of Adam B. Ulam

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Liberalism and the British Empire in Southeast Asia

Liberalism and the British Empire in Southeast Asia

This collection of essays collects the leading scholars on British colonial thought in Southeast Asia to consider the question: what was the relationship between liberalism and the British Empire in Southeast Asia? The empire builders in Southeast Asia: Lord Minto William Farquhar John Leyden Thomas Stamford Raffles and John Crawfurd - to name a few - were fervent believers in a liberal free trade order in Southeast Asia. Many recent studies of British imperialism and European imperialism more generally have addressed how the anti-imperialist tradition of Eighteenth century liberalism was increasingly intertwined with the discourses of empire freedom race and economics in the nineteenth century. This collection extends those studies to look at the impact of liberalism on. British colonialism in Southeast Asia and early nineteenth century Southeast Asia we see some of the first attempts at developing multicultural democracies within the colonies experiments in free trade and attempts to use free trade to prevent war and colonisation.

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Prostitutes Hostesses and Actresses at the Edge of the Japanese Empire Fragmenting History

Prostitutes Hostesses and Actresses at the Edge of the Japanese Empire Fragmenting History

Analysing materials from literature and film this book considers the fates of women who did not or could not buy into the Japanese imperial ideology of good wives wise mothers in support of male empire-building. Although many feminist critics have articulated women’s active roles as dutiful collaborators for the Japanese empire male-dominated narratives of empire-building have been largely supported and rectified. In contrast the roles of marginalized women such as sex workers women entertainers hostesses and hibakusha have rarely been analyzed. This book addresses this intellectual lacuna by closely examining memories (semi-)autobiographical stories and newspaper articles grounded or inspired by lived experiences not only in Japan but also in Shanghai Manchukuo colonial Korea and the Pacific. Chapters further explore the voices of diasporic Korean women (Zainichi Korean woman born in Japan as well as Korean American woman born in Korea) whose lives were impacted intervening ethnocentric narratives that were at the heart of the Japanese empire. An appendix presents the first English translation of a memorable statement on comfort women by former Japanese propaganda actress Ri Kōran / Yamaguchi Yoshiko. Prostitutes Hostesses and Actresses at the Edge of the Japanese Empire will appeal to students and scholars of Japanese literature and film studies as well as gender sexuality and postcolonial studies. | Prostitutes Hostesses and Actresses at the Edge of the Japanese Empire Fragmenting History

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Russia in Manchuria A Problem of Empire

Russia in Manchuria A Problem of Empire

Manchuria the name given to China’s North-eastern provinces by foreign powers has been contested by China Russia and Japan in particular over many centuries. This book surveys the history of Manchuria focusing particularly on the Russian and Soviet perspective. It outlines early colonisation of the region and examines the importance of the Chinese Eastern Railway a branch of the Trans-Siberian Railway and the remarkable railway city of Harbin for consolidating the Russian presence in the region and for developing the region’s economy. It goes on to consider twentieth century developments including the Japanese invasion and the puppet state of Manchukuo. Throughout the book reflects on the nature of empire especially Russian/Soviet imperialism and its similarities to and differences from other nations’ imperial ventures. | Russia in Manchuria A Problem of Empire

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Transnationalism Education and Empowerment The Latent Legacies of Empire

Transnationalism Education and Empowerment The Latent Legacies of Empire

Transnationalism Education and Empowerment challenges the prevailing notion that transnationalism is concerned fundamentally with the process of enhanced global population movement that has been allied with modern globalisation. Instead it argues that transnationalism is a state of mind disassociated from the notion of ‘place ’ that can be observed equally in societies of the past. Drawing on the context of colonial Sri Lanka and the British Empire the book discusses how education in the British Empire was the means by which some marginalised groups in colonised societies were able to activate their transnational dispositions. Far from being a universal oppressor of colonised people as argued by postcolonial scholarship colonial education was capable of creating pathways to life improvement that did not exist before the European colonial period providing agency to those who did not possess it prior to colonial rule. The book begins by exploring the meaning of transnationalism arguing that it needs to be redefined to meet the realities of past and current global societies. It then moves on to examine the ways education was used within the period of 18th and 19th century European colonialism with a particular emphasis on Sri Lanka and other parts of the former British Empire. Drawing from examples of his own family’s ancestry Casinader then discusses how some marginalised groups in parts of the British Empire were able to use education as the key to unlocking their pre-existing transnational dispositions in order to create pathways for more prosperous futures. Rather than being subjugated by colonial education they harnessed the educational aspects of British colonial education for their own goals. This book is one of the first to contest and critically evaluate the contemporary conceptualisation of transnationalism particularly in the educational context. It will be of key interest to academics researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of education the history of education imperial and colonial history cultural studies and geography. | Transnationalism Education and Empowerment The Latent Legacies of Empire

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Ireland Slavery Anti-Slavery and Empire

Ireland Slavery Anti-Slavery and Empire

Although the significance of transatlantic currents of influence on slavery and abolition in the Americas has received substantial scholarly attention the focus has tended to be largely on the British transatlantic or on the effects of American racial politics on the emergence of Irish American political identity in the US. The specifics of Ireland’s role as a transnational hub of anti-slavery literary and political activity and as deeply imbricated in debates around slavery and freedom are often overlooked. This collection points to the particularity and significance of Ireland’s place in nineteenth-century exchanges around slavery and anti-slavery. Importantly it foregrounds the context of empire – Ireland was both one of the ‘home’ nations of the UK on many levels deeply complicit in British imperialism and a space of emergent anti-colonial radicalism bourgeois nationalism and significant literary opportunity for Black abolitionist writers – as a key mediator of the ways in which the conceptual and practical responses to slavery and anti-slavery took shape in the Irish context. Moving beyond the transatlantic model often used to position debates around slavery in the Americas it incorporates discussion around campaigns to abolish slavery within the empire opening up the possibility of wider comparative discussions of slavery and anti-slavery around the Indian Ocean and the African continent. It also emphasizes the plurality of positions in play across class political racial and national lines and the ways in which those positions shifted in response to changing social cultural and economic conditions. This book was originally published as a special issue of Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies. | Ireland Slavery Anti-Slavery and Empire

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Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire The Poetics of Imperial Space

Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire The Poetics of Imperial Space

In this pioneering study Dr. Fernandez explores how the rise of institutional geography in Victorian England impacted imperial fiction’s emergence as a genre characterized by a preoccupation with space and place. This volume argues that the alliance between institutional geography and the British empire which commenced with the founding of the Royal Geographical Society in 1830 shaped the spatial imagination of Victorians with profound consequences for the novel of empire. Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire examines Presidential Addresses and reports of the Royal Geographical Society and demonstrates how geographical studies by explorers cartographers ethnologists medical topographers administrators and missionaries published by the RGS local geographical societies or the colonial state acquired relevance for Victorian fiction’s response to the British Empire. Through a series of illuminating readings of literary works by R. L. Stevenson Olive Schreiner Flora Annie Steel Winwood Reade Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling the study demonstrates how nineteenth-century fiction published between 1870 and 1901 reflected and interrogated geographical discourses of the time. The study makes the case for the significance of physical and human geography for literary studies and the unique historical and aesthetic insights gained through this approach. | Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire The Poetics of Imperial Space

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Senses of the Empire Multisensory Approaches to Roman Culture

Senses of the Empire Multisensory Approaches to Roman Culture

The Roman empire afforded a kaleidoscope of sensations. Through a series of multisensory case studies centred on people places buildings and artefacts and on specific aspects of human behaviour this volume develops ground-breaking methods and approaches for sensory studies in Roman archaeology and ancient history. Authors explore questions such as: what it felt like and symbolised to be showered with saffron at the amphitheatre; why the shape of a dancer’s body made him immediately recognisable as a social outcast; how the dramatic gestures loud noises and unforgettable smells of a funeral would have different meanings for members of the family and for bystanders; and why feeling the weight of a signet ring on his finger contributed to a man’s sense of identity. A multisensory approach is taken throughout with each chapter exploring at least two of the senses of sight hearing smell taste and touch. The contributors’ individual approaches vary reflecting the possibilities and the wide application of sensory studies to the ancient world. Underlying all chapters is a conviction that taking a multisensory approach enriches our understanding of the Roman empire but also an awareness of the methodological problems encountered when reconstructing past experiences. | Senses of the Empire Multisensory Approaches to Roman Culture

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The First World Empire Portugal War and Military Revolution

The First World Empire Portugal War and Military Revolution

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the early modern military history of Portugal and its possessions in Africa the Americas and Asia from the perspective of the military revolution historiographical debate. The existence of a military revolution in the early modern period has been much debated in international historiography and this volume fills a significant gap in its relation to the history of Portugal and its overseas empire. It examines different forms of military change in specifically Portuguese case studies but also adopts a global perspective through the analysis of different contexts and episodes in Africa the Americas and Asia. Contributors explore whether there is evidence of what could be defined as aspects of a military revolution or whether other explanatory models are needed to account for different forms of military change. In this way it offers the reader a variety of perspectives that contribute to the debate over the applicability of the military revolution concept to Portugal and its empire during the early modern period. Broken down into four thematic parts and broad in both chronological and geographical scope the book deepens our understanding of the art of warfare in Portugal and its empire and demonstrates how the military revolution debate can be used to examine military change in a global perspective. This is an essential text for scholars and students of military history military architecture global history Asian history and the history of Iberian empires. Chapter 7 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | The First World Empire Portugal War and Military Revolution

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The Concept of Monument in Achaemenid Empire

The Concept of Monument in Achaemenid Empire

The aim of this book is to explore the significance of the concept of ‘monument’ in the context of the Achaemenid Empire (550-330 BC) with particular reference to the Royal Ensemble of Persepolis founded by Darius I and built together with his son Xerxes. While Persepolis was built as an ‘intentional monument’ it had already become an ‘historic monument’ during the Achaemenid period. It maintained its symbolic significance in the following centuries even after its destruction by Alexander of Macedonia in 330 BC. The purpose of building Persepolis was to establish a symbol and a common reference for the peoples of the Empire with the Achaemenid Dynasty transmitting significant messages and values such as peace stability grandeur and praise for the dynastic figure of the king as the protector of values and fighting falsehood. While previous research on Achaemenid heritage has mainly been on archaeological and art-historical aspects of Persepolis the present work focuses on the architecture and design of Persepolis. It is supported by studies in the fields of archaeology history and art history as well as by direct survey of the site. The morphological analysis of Persepolis including the study of the proportions of the elevations and the verification of a planning grid for the layout of the entire ensemble demonstrate the univocal will by Darius to plan Persepolis following a precise initial scheme. The study shows how the inscriptions bas-reliefs and the innovative architectural language together express the symbolism values and political messages of the Achaemenid Dynasty exhibiting influence from different lands in a new architectural language and in the plan of the entire site. | The Concept of Monument in Achaemenid Empire

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Character Ethics and Economics British Debates on Empire 1860-1914

Character Ethics and Economics British Debates on Empire 1860-1914

This book is an examination of the concept of ‘character’ as a moral marker in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its main purpose is to investigate how the ‘character talk’ that helped to shape elite Britons’ sense of themselves was used at this time to convince audiences both in Britain and in the places they had conquered that empire could be morally as well as materially justified and was a great force for good in the world. A small group of radical thinkers questioned many of the arguments of the imperialists but found it difficult to escape entirely from the sense of moral superiority that marked the latter’s language. | Character Ethics and Economics British Debates on Empire 1860-1914

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Lord Dufferin Ireland and the British Empire c. 1820–1900 Rule by the Best?

Lord Dufferin Ireland and the British Empire c. 1820–1900 Rule by the Best?

This book explores the life and career of Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826–1902). Dufferin was a landowner in Ulster an urbane diplomat literary sensation courtier politician colonial governor collector son husband and father. The book draws on episodes from Dufferin’s career to link the landowning and aristocratic culture he was born into with his experience of governing across the British Empire in Canada Egypt Syria and India. This book argues that there was a defined conception of aristocratic governance and purpose that infused the political and imperial world and was based on two elements: the inheritance and management of a landed estate and a well-defined sense of ‘rule by the best’. It identifies a particular kind of atmosphere of empire and aristocracy one that was riven with tensions and angst as those who saw themselves as the hereditary leaders of Britain and Ireland were challenged by a rising democracy and in Ireland by a powerful new definition of what Irishness was. It offers a new perspective on both empire and aristocracy in the nineteenth century and will appeal to a broad scholarly audience and the wider public. | Lord Dufferin Ireland and the British Empire c. 1820–1900 Rule by the Best?

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The Future of U.S. Empire in the Americas The Trump Administration and Beyond

The Future of U.S. Empire in the Americas The Trump Administration and Beyond

With the rise of President Trump many are coming to question where the United States (U. S. ) is headed and whether we might witness an imperial decline under Trump. Social scientists largely recognize the contemporary hegemonic position of the U. S. at the global level but questions persist concerning the future of the U. S. Empire. With the Trump Administration at the helm these questions are all the more salient. Drawing on the expertise of a panel of contributors and guided by Michael Mann’s model of power this book critically interrogates the future of U. S. global power and provides insights on what we might expect from the U. S. Empire under Trump. Recognizing that U. S. imperial power involves an array of sources of power (ideological economic military and political) the contributors analyze the Trump Administration’s approach towards nine countries in the Western Hemisphere and five sets of global policies including inter-American relations drugs trade the environment and immigration. Each case presents a historical look at the trajectory of relations as they have developed under Trump and what we might expect in the future from the administration. The Future of U. S. Empire in the Americas will be of great interest to students and scholars of U. S. foreign policy Foreign Policy Analysis political sociology and American politics. | The Future of U. S. Empire in the Americas The Trump Administration and Beyond

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The Ottoman Empire in the Tanzimat Era Provincial Perspectives from Ankara to Edirne

The Ottoman Empire in the Tanzimat Era Provincial Perspectives from Ankara to Edirne

The Ottoman Empire in the Tanzimat Era generates a new history of the Ottoman Empire’s Tanzimat reforms in the provinces of Edirne and Ankara. It studies variation across the two provinces and the crucial role of local intermediaries such as notables tribal leaders and merchants. The book provides insights into how states and societies transform each other in the most difficult of times using qualitative and quantitative social network analysis and deep research in the Ottoman and British archives to understand the Tanzimat as a process of negotiation and transformation between the state and local actors. The author argues that the same reform policies produced different results in Edirne and Ankara. The book explains how factors such as socioeconomic conditions and historical developments played a role in shaping local networks. The Ottoman Empire in the Tanzimat Era invites readers to rethink taken-for-granted concepts such as centralization decentralization state control and imperial decay. It will be of interest to scholars and students interested in Middle Eastern and Balkan studies and historical and political sociology. | The Ottoman Empire in the Tanzimat Era Provincial Perspectives from Ankara to Edirne

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Cultural Diplomacy and the Heritage of Empire Negotiating Post-Colonial Returns

Cultural Diplomacy and the Heritage of Empire Negotiating Post-Colonial Returns

Cultural Diplomacy and the Heritage of Empire analyzes the history of the negotiations that led to the atypical return of colonial-era cultural property from the Netherlands to Indonesia in the 1970s. By doing so the book shows that competing visions of post-colonial redress were contested throughout the era of post-World War II decolonization. Considering the danger this precedent posed to other countries the book looks beyond the Dutch-Indonesian case to the “Elgin (Parthenon) Marbles” and “Benin Bronzes” controversies as well as recent developments relating to returns in France and the Netherlands. Setting aside the “universalism versus nationalism” debate Scott asserts that the deeper meaning of post-colonial cultural property disputes in European history has more to do with how officials of former colonial powers negotiated decolonization while also creating contemporary understandings of their nations’ pasts. As a whole the book expands the field of cultural restitution studies and offers a more nuanced understanding of the connections drawn between postcolonial national identity making and the extension of cultural diplomacy. Cultural Diplomacy and the Heritage of Empire offers a new perspective on the international influence of the UNGA and UNESCO on the return debate. As such the book will be of interest to scholars students and practitioners engaged in the study of cultural property diplomacy and law museum and heritage studies modern European history post-colonial studies and historical anthropology. | Cultural Diplomacy and the Heritage of Empire Negotiating Post-Colonial Returns

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All for Union Empire and Homeland The Labours of “Honest John” Drummond of Quarrel

All for Union Empire and Homeland The Labours of “Honest John” Drummond of Quarrel

This book uses original resources to uncover the valuable help given to Britain’s leaders and her elite by the Scot John Drummond of Quarrel. It reveals why he proved indispensable as a special consultant and counsellor to statesmen nobles and businessmen shows his devotion to the 1707 Union and how he fed expansion of Britain’s Empire while spying on her enemies. His professionalism learned from the renascent culture of his beloved Scotland benefitted commercial society in Britain and Holland. The volume argues that his contribution to a momentous much discussed era was extraordinary and his activities boosted exchange of global knowledge to the particular benefit of Scotland. | All for Union Empire and Homeland The Labours of “Honest John” Drummond of Quarrel

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Native American Roots Relationality and Indigenous Regeneration Under Empire 1770–1859

Native American Roots Relationality and Indigenous Regeneration Under Empire 1770–1859

Native American Roots: Relationality and Indigenous Regeneration Under Empire 1770–1859 explores the development of modern Indigenous identities within the settler colonial context of the early United States. With an aggressively expanding United States that sought to displace Native peoples the very foundations of Indigeneity were endangered by the disruption of Native connections to the land. This volume describes how Natives embedded conceptualizations integral to Indigenous ontologies into social and cultural institutions like racial ideologies black slaveholding and Christianity that they incorporated from the settler society. This process became one vital avenue through which various Native peoples were able to regenerate Indigeneity within environments dominated by a settler society. The author offers case studies of four different tribes to illustrate how Native thought processes not just cultural and political processes helped Natives redefine the parameters of Indigeneity. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of early American history indigenous and ethnic studies American historiography and anthropology. | Native American Roots Relationality and Indigenous Regeneration Under Empire 1770–1859

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