Conquest and Resistance
Title | Conquest and Resistance PDF eBook |
Author | Padraig Lenihan |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 389 |
Release | 2021-10-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004476555 |
These ten thematic essays examine the three Irish wars of the seventeenth-century in relation to each other, thereby yielding important comparative insights. The military potential of England and, later, an emergent Britain, was immeasurably greater than that of Irish Catholics. John McGurk, James Scott Wheeler and Paul Kerrigan evaluate the logistical and naval strategies exploiting this advantage. Such was the disparity that an effective Irish military response to conquest and colonisation was only feasible in the favourable archipelagic and continental European circumstances explored by John Young and Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin. Defeat or victory ultimately depended on relative military performance in manoeuvre, battle and siege, operations evaluated by Pádraig Lenihan, Donal O’Carroll and James Burke. Bernadette Whelan examines the role of women as victim, survivor and, occasionally, combatant. ’You cannot carry fire in a sack’, Raymond Gillespie notes the impact of war, especially on urban Ireland.
Conquest and Resistance in the Ethiopian Empire, 1880 - 1974
Title | Conquest and Resistance in the Ethiopian Empire, 1880 - 1974 PDF eBook |
Author | Abbas Gnamo |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2014-01-23 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9004265481 |
This work examines the philosophical origins of Oromo egalitarian and democratic thoughts and practice, the Gadaa-Qaalluu system, kinship organization, the introduction and spread of Islam and the consequent socio-cultural change. It sheds light on the advent of the Ethiopian empire under Menelik II, its conquests and Arsi Oromo fierce resistance (1880-1900), the nature and legacy of Ethiopian imperial polity, centre-periphery relations, feudal political economy and its impacts on the newly conquered regions with a focus on Arsi Oromo country. The book also analyzes the root causes of the national political crisis including, but not limited to, the attempts at transforming the empire-state to a nation-state around a single culture, contested definition of national identity and state legitimacy, grievance narratives, uprisings, the birth and development of competing nationalisms as well as the limitations of the current ethnic federalism to address the national question in Ethiopia.
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680
Title | The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew L. Knaut |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2015-01-26 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0806148810 |
In August 1680 the Pueblo Indians of northern New Mexico arose in fury to slay their Spanish colonial overlords and drive any survivors from the land. Andrew Knaut explores eight decades of New Mexican history leading up to the revolt, explaining how the newcomers had disrupted Pueblo life in far-reaching ways - they commandeered the Indians’ food stores, exposed the Pueblos to new diseases, interrupted long-established trading relationships, and sparked increasing raids by surrounding Athapaskan nomads. The Pueblo Indians’ violent success stemmed from an almost unprecedented unity of disparate factions and sophistication of planning in secrecy. When Spanish forces retook the colony in the 1690s, freedom proved short-lived. But the revolt stands as a vitally important yet neglected historical landmark: the only significant reversal of European expansion by Native American people in the New World.
Stolen Continents
Title | Stolen Continents PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald Wright |
Publisher | |
Pages | 474 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
"Presents native accounts--some translated for the first time from Native American languages--of the plunder and persecution wrought by white settlers and explorers on the one hundred million people already living in the Americas in 1492."--
Conquest and Resistance
Title | Conquest and Resistance PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Colonization |
ISBN |
Seventeenth-century Ireland
Title | Seventeenth-century Ireland PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond Gillespie |
Publisher | Gill Books |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
A groundbreaking interpretation. In Ireland, the seventeenth century was a war zone, but it was also about politics, about wheeling and dealing. In the end, politics failed, and Raymond Gillespie explains why.
Muslim Resistance to the Tsar
Title | Muslim Resistance to the Tsar PDF eBook |
Author | Moshe Gammer |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 477 |
Release | 2013-11-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1135308985 |
First published in 2003. Much has been written about the Muslim Murid movement and its leader Shamil, who resisted the Tsarist Russian expansion into Chechan and Daghestan for more than quarter of a century. This study, based on research in multilingual archives, offers a fresh insight into this controversial subject.