Beyond the Empire
Title | Beyond the Empire PDF eBook |
Author | K. B. Wagers |
Publisher | Hachette+ORM |
Pages | 363 |
Release | 2016-12-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 031630865X |
The adrenaline-fueled, explosive conclusion to the Indranan War trilogy by K. B. Wagers. Gunrunner-turned-Empress Hail Bristol was dragged back to her home planet to take her rightful place in the palace. Her sisters and parents have been murdered, and the Indranan Empire is reeling from both treasonous plots and foreign invasion. Now, on the run from enemies on all fronts, Hail prepares to fight a full-scale war for her throne and her people, even as she struggles with the immense weight of the legacy thrust upon her. With the aid of a motley crew of allies old and new, she must return home to face off with the same powerful enemies who killed her family and aim to destroy everything and everyone she loves. Untangling a legacy of lies and restoring peace to Indrana will require an empress's wrath and a gunrunner's justice.
Star Wars Edge of the Empire RPG
Title | Star Wars Edge of the Empire RPG PDF eBook |
Author | Fantasy Flight Games |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014-08-15 |
Genre | Fantasy games |
ISBN | 9781616616915 |
"Fantasy Flight Games is proud to announce Far Horizons, a sourcebook for Colonists making their living at the galaxys fringes in Star Wars: Edge of the Empire. Far Horizons offers new options for Colonists, along with new gear, spaceships, and species that all players (and GMs) will find useful." -- Publisher website.
Beyond Empire
Title | Beyond Empire PDF eBook |
Author | John T. Ducker |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 437 |
Release | 2020-02-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1786736241 |
Beyond Empire looks at three decades of British colonial administration to assess the capacity of the independent governments of Africa to achieve independence. A wealth of archival material and a unique review of British press over those decades brings to life the dynamic and the tension of the process of decolonisation. Addressing a wide range of issues, from education, constitutional change and economic relations, Beyond Empire sheds new light on aspects of colonial history at the country level, with the focus on the African administrations themselves as agents in the decolonisation process.
Beyond the Spirit of Empire
Title | Beyond the Spirit of Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Nestor Miguez |
Publisher | Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0334043220 |
How does empire mould human subjectivity, for instance, and how does it affect the understanding of humans within the whole of creation? This title analyzes the global empire in its political and economic dimensions, in its symbolic constructions of power, and in its general assumptions often taken for granted.
Edge of Empire
Title | Edge of Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Dr. Fabrício Prado |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2015-10-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520960734 |
In the first decades of the 1800s, after almost three centuries of Iberian rule, former Spanish territories fragmented into more than a dozen new polities. Edge of Empire analyzes the emergence of Montevideo as a hot spot of Atlantic trade and regional center of power, often opposing Buenos Aires. By focusing on commercial and social networks in the Rio de la Plata region, the book examines how Montevideo merchant elites used transimperial connections to expand their influence and how their trade offered crucial support to Montevideo’s autonomist projects. These transimperial networks offered different political, social, and economic options to local societies and shaped the politics that emerged in the region, including the formation of Uruguay. Connecting South America to the broader Atlantic World, this book provides an excellent case study for examining the significance of cross-border interactions in shaping independence processes and political identities.
The Grand Strategy of the Russian Empire, 1650-1831
Title | The Grand Strategy of the Russian Empire, 1650-1831 PDF eBook |
Author | John P. LeDonne |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2003-12-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0190289686 |
At its height, the Russian empire covered eleven time zones and stretched from Scandinavia to the Pacific Ocean. Arguing against the traditional historical view that Russia, surrounded and threatened by enemies, was always on the defensive, John P. LeDonne contends that Russia developed a long-term strategy not in response to immediate threats but in line with its own expansionist urges to control the Eurasian Heartland. LeDonne narrates how the government from Moscow and Petersburg expanded the empire by deploying its army as well as by extending its patronage to frontier societies in return for their serving the interests of the empire. He considers three theaters on which the Russians expanded: the Western (Baltic, Germany, Poland); the Southern (Ottoman and Persian Empires); and the Eastern (China, Siberia, Central Asia). In his analysis of military power, he weighs the role of geography and locale, as well as economic issues, in the evolution of a larger imperial strategy. Rather than viewing Russia as peripheral to European Great Power politics, LeDonne makes a powerful case for Russia as an expansionist, militaristic, and authoritarian regime that challenged the great states and empires of its time.
Beyond Pan-Asianism
Title | Beyond Pan-Asianism PDF eBook |
Author | Tansen Sen |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 397 |
Release | 2020-11-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0190992123 |
Within Asia, the period from 1840s to 1960s had witnessed the rise and decline of Pax Britannica, the growth of multiple and often competing anti-colonial movements, and the entrenchment of the nation-state system. Beyond Pan-Asianism seeks to demonstrate the complex interactions between China, India, and their neighbouring societies against this background of imperialism and nationalist resistance. The contributors to this volume, from India, the West, and the Chinese-speaking world, cover a tremendous breadth of figures, including novelists, soldiers, intelligence officers, archivists, among others, by deploying published and archival materials in multiple Asian and Western languages. This volume also attempts to answer the question of how China-India connectedness in the modern period should be narrated. Instead of providing one definite answer, it engages with prevailing and past frameworks—notably 'Pan-Asianism' and 'China/India as Method'—with an aim to provoke further discussions on how histories of China-India and, by extension the non-Western world, can be conceptualized.