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 Free Download Rutger Kramer, "Empires and Communities in the Post-Roman and Islamic World, C. 400-1000 CE " English | ISBN: 0190067942 | 2021 | 464 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.  Free Download Empire's Son, Empire's Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah by Nile Green English | July 2nd, 2024 | ISBN: 1324002417 | 384 pages | True EPUB | 2.46 MB A rollicking story of two literary fabulists who revealed the West's obsession with a fabricated, exotic East.  Free Download Brian Lavery, "Empire of the Seas: How the navy forged the modern world" English | ISBN: 1472835603 | 2019 | 336 pages | AZW3 | 5 MB The year 1588 marked a turning point in our national story. Victory over the Spanish Armada transformed us into a seafaring nation and it sparked a myth that one day would become a reality - that the nation's new destiny, the source of her future wealth and power lay out on the oceans. This book tells the story of how the navy expanded from a tiny force to become the most complex industrial enterprise on earth; how the need to organise it laid the foundations of our civil service and our economy; and how it transformed our culture, our sense of national identity and our democracy.  Free Download Gordon S. Wood, "Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 " English | ISBN: 0195039149 | 2009 | 778 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, two New York Times bestsellers, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. Now, in the newest volume in the series, one of America's most esteemed historians, Gordon S. Wood, offers a brilliant account of the early American Republic, ranging from 1789 and the beginning of the national government to the end of the War of 1812.  Free Download Katherine Arens, "Empire in Decline: Fritz Mauthner's Critique of Wilhelminian Germany" English | 2001 | ISBN: 0820450383 | PDF | pages: 240 | 10.0 mb Fritz Mauthner (1849-1923), a Jewish Austro-Hungarian author born in Bohemia, grew up in Prague, and moved to Berlin to become a noted novelist, newspaper writer, and cultural critic turned philosopher of language. He retired from public life just before World War I to pursue the philosophy and politics of language. This first extensive study of Mauthner's popular essays and fiction traces his critiques of Wilhelminian Germany and of rising European nationalism. Mauthner dissects the era's dominant culture, including its class-, ethnicity-, and gender-bound identity politics, judicial discrimination, ethnic nationalism, and the press. In other works, in the traditions of Naturalism, he draws on popular science to anticipate his own critique of language, echoing more famous contemporaries such as physicist Ernst Mach and biologist Ernst Haeckel and influencing authors Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Max Nordau.  Free Download Empire Javelin, D-Day Assault Ship: The Royal Navy vessel that landed the US 116th Infantry on Omaha Beach by Philip Kay-Bujak English | July 30, 2024 | ISBN: 1399035819 | 240 pages | EPUB | 7.19 Mb  Free Download Empire Cruise: The Special Service Squadron, 1923-24 by Daniel Knowles English | August 15, 2024 | ISBN: 1781558981 | 320 pages | EPUB | 31 Mb  Free Download Empire: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Howe English | August 22, 2002 | ASIN: B005G6O3PG, ISBN: 0192802232 | MOBI | 168 pages | 0.9 MB A great deal of the world's history is the history of empires. Indeed it could be said that all history is colonial history, if one takes a broad enough definition and goes far enough back. And although the great historic imperial systems-the land-based Russian one as well as the seaborne empires of western European powers-have collapsed during the past half century, their legacies shape almost every aspect of life on a global scale. Meanwhile there is fierce argument, and much speculation, about what has replaced the old territorial empires in world politics. Do the United States and its allies, transnational companies, financial and media institutions, or more broadly the forces of "globalization", constitute a new imperial system?
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