The Web of Empire
Title | The Web of Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Alison Games |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 394 |
Release | 2009-11-12 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0199733384 |
How did England go from a position of inferiority to the powerful Spanish empire to achieve global pre-eminence? In this important work, Alison Games explores the period when England challenged dominion over the American continents, established new long-distance trade routes in the eastern Mediterranean and the East Indies, and emerged in the 17th century as an empire to reckon with.
Webs of Empire
Title | Webs of Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Tony Ballantyne |
Publisher | UBC Press |
Pages | 377 |
Release | 2014-04-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0774827718 |
Breaking open colonization to reveal tangled cultural and economic networks, Webs of Empire offers new paths into colonial history. Linking Gore and Chicago, Maori and Asia, India and newspapers, whalers and writing, Ballantyne presents empire building as a spreading web of connected places, people, ideas, and trade. These links question narrow, national stories, while broadening perspectives on the past and the legacies of colonialism that persist today. Bringing together essays from two decades of prolific publishing on international colonial history, Webs of Empire establishes Tony Ballantyne as one of the leading historians of the British Empire.
Webs of Empire
Title | Webs of Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Tony Ballantyne |
Publisher | UBC Press |
Pages | 377 |
Release | 2014-04-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 077482770X |
Breaking open colonization to reveal tangled cultural and economic networks, Webs of Empire offers new paths into our colonial history. Linking Gore and Chicago, Maori and Asia, India and newspapers, whalers and writing, empire building becomes a spreading web of connected places, people, ideas, and trade. These links question narrow, national stories, while broadening perspectives on the past and the legacies of colonialism that persist today. Bringing together essays from two decades of prolific publishing on international colonial history, Webs of Empire establishes Tony Ballantyne as one of the leading historians of the British Empire.
The Web of Empire
Title | The Web of Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Alison Games |
Publisher | |
Pages | 381 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN |
In this work, Alison Games explores the period when England challenged dominion over the American continents, established new long-distance trade routes in the eastern Mediterranean and the East Indies, and emerged in the 17th century as an empire to reckon with.
The Web of Empire ... With Illustrations. (Abridged Edition for Schools.).
Title | The Web of Empire ... With Illustrations. (Abridged Edition for Schools.). PDF eBook |
Author | Sir Donald Mackenzie WALLACE |
Publisher | |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 1903 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Bookman
Title | The Bookman PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 518 |
Release | 1901 |
Genre | Bibliography |
ISBN |
The Archive of Empire
Title | The Archive of Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Asheesh Kapur Siddique |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2024-08-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0300280661 |
How modern data-driven government originated in the creation and use of administrative archives in the British Empire Over the span of two hundred years, Great Britain established, governed, lost, and reconstructed an empire that embraced three continents and two oceanic worlds. The British ruled this empire by correlating incoming information about the conduct of subjects and aliens in imperial spaces with norms of good governance developed in London. Officials derived these norms by studying the histories of government contained in the official records of both the state and corporations and located in repositories known as archives. As the empire expanded in both the Americas and India, however, this system of political knowledge came to be regarded as inadequate in governing the non-English people who inhabited the lands over which the British asserted sovereignty. This posed a key problem for imperial officials: What kind of knowledge was required to govern an empire populated by a growing number of culturally different people? Using files, pens, and paper, the British defined the information order of the modern state as they debated answers to this question. In tracing the rise and deployment of archives in early modern British imperial rule, Asheesh Kapur Siddique uncovers the origins of our data-driven present.