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Author |
: Wim Klooster |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 461 |
Release |
: 2018-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501719608 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501719602 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Realm between Empires by : Wim Klooster
Wim Klooster and Gert Oostindie present a fresh look at the Dutch Atlantic in the period following the imperial moment of the seventeenth century. This epoch (1680–1815), the authors argue, marked a distinct and significant era in which Dutch military power declined and Dutch colonies began to chart a more autonomous path. The loss of Brazil and New Netherland were twin blows to Dutch imperial pretensions. Yet the Dutch Atlantic hardly faded into insignificance. Instead, the influence of the Dutch remained, as they were increasingly drawn into the imperial systems of Britain, Spain, and France. In their synthetic and comparative history, Klooster and Oostindie reveal the fragmented identity and interconnectedness of the Dutch in three Atlantic theaters: West Africa, Guiana, and the insular Caribbean. They show that the colonies and trading posts were heterogeneous in their governance, religious profiles, and ethnic compositions and were marked by creolization. Even as colonial control weakened, the imprint of Dutch political, economic, and cultural authority would mark territories around the Atlantic for decades to come. Realm between Empires is a powerful revisionist history of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world and provides a much-needed counterpoint to the more widely known British and French Atlantic histories.
Author |
: Mark Edward Lewis |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 351 |
Release |
: 2011-04-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674265400 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674265408 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis China between Empires by : Mark Edward Lewis
After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this split in a period that saw the geographic redefinition of China, more engagement with the outside world, significant changes to family life, developments in the literary and social arenas, and the introduction of new religions. The Yangzi River valley arose as the rice-producing center of the country. Literature moved beyond the court and capital to depict local culture, and newly emerging social spaces included the garden, temple, salon, and country villa. The growth of self-defined genteel families expanded the notion of the elite, moving it away from the traditional great Han families identified mostly by material wealth. Trailing the rebel movements that toppled the Han, the new faiths of Daoism and Buddhism altered every aspect of life, including the state, kinship structures, and the economy. By the time China was reunited by the Sui dynasty in 589 ce, the elite had been drawn into the state order, and imperial power had assumed a more transcendent nature. The Chinese were incorporated into a new world system in which they exchanged goods and ideas with states that shared a common Buddhist religion. The centuries between the Han and the Tang thus had a profound and permanent impact on the Chinese world.
Author |
: Tasha Suri |
Publisher |
: Hachette UK |
Total Pages |
: 480 |
Release |
: 2019-11-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780356512020 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0356512029 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Realm of Ash by : Tasha Suri
Some believe the Ambhan Empire is cursed. But Arwa doesn't simply believe it - she knows it's true. Widowed by the infamous, unnatural massacre at Darez Fort, Arwa was saved only by the strangeness of her blood - a strangeness she had been taught all her life to suppress. She offers up her blood and service to the imperial family and makes common cause with a disgraced, illegitimate prince who has turned to forbidden occult arts to find a cure to the darkness hanging over the Empire. Using the power in Arwa's blood, they seek answers in the realm of ash: a land where mortals can seek the ghostly echoes of their ancestors' dreams. But the Emperor's health is failing, and a terrible war of succession hovers on the horizon, not just for the imperial throne, but for the magic underpinning Empire itself. To save the Empire, Arwa and the prince must walk the bloody path of their shared past, through the realm of ash and into the desert, where the cause of the Empire's suffering-and its only chance of salvation - lie in wait. But what they find there calls into question everything they've ever valued . . . and whether they want to save the Empire at all.
Author |
: Heather A. Badamo |
Publisher |
: Penn State Press |
Total Pages |
: 261 |
Release |
: 2023-08-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780271095943 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0271095946 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Saint George Between Empires by : Heather A. Badamo
This volume examines Saint George’s intertwined traditions in the competing states of the eastern Mediterranean and Transcaucasia, demonstrating how rival conceptions of this well-known saint became central to Crusader, Eastern Christian, and Islamic medieval visual cultures. Saint George Between Empires links the visual cultures of Byzantium, North Africa, the Levant, Syria, and the Caucasus during the Crusader era to redraw our picture of interfaith relations and artistic networks. Heather Badamo recovers and recontextualizes a vast body of images and literature—from etiquette manuals and romances to miracle accounts and chronicles—to describe the history of Saint George during a period of religious and political fragmentation, between his “rise” to cross-cultural prominence in the eleventh century and his “globalization” in the fifteenth. In Badamo’s analysis, George emerges as an exemplar of cross-cultural encounter and global translation. Featuring important new research on monuments and artworks that are no longer available to scholars as a result of the occupation of Syria and parts of Iraq, Saint George Between Empires will be welcomed by scholars of Byzantine, medieval, Islamic, and Eastern Christian art and cultural studies.
Author |
: Charles S. Maier |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 396 |
Release |
: 2007-10-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674265745 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674265742 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Among Empires by : Charles S. Maier
Contemporary America, with its unparalleled armaments and ambition, seems to many commentators a new empire. Others angrily reject the designation. What stakes would being an empire have for our identity at home and our role abroad? A preeminent American historian addresses these issues in light of the history of empires since antiquity. This elegantly written book examines the structure and impact of these mega-states and asks whether the United States shares their traits and behavior. Eschewing the standard focus on current U.S. foreign policy and the recent spate of pro- and anti-empire polemics, Charles S. Maier uses comparative history to test the relevance of a concept often invoked but not always understood. Marshaling a remarkable array of evidence—from Roman, Ottoman, Moghul, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and British experience—Maier outlines the essentials of empire throughout history. He then explores the exercise of U.S. power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, carefully analyzing its economic and strategic sources and the nation’s relationship to predecessors and rivals. To inquire about empire is to ask what the United States has become as a result of its wealth, inventiveness, and ambitions. It is to confront lofty national aspirations with the realities of the violence that often attends imperial politics and thus to question both the costs and the opportunities of the current U.S. global ascendancy. With learning, dispassion, and clarity, Among Empires offers bold comparisons and an original account of American power. It confirms that the issue of empire must be a concern of every citizen.
Author |
: Daniel Allen Butler |
Publisher |
: Potomac Books, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 390 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781597975841 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1597975842 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shadow of the Sultan's Realm by : Daniel Allen Butler
The rise of the modern Middle East from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire.
Author |
: Troy Denning |
Publisher |
: Wizards of the Coast |
Total Pages |
: 271 |
Release |
: 2012-01-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780786962051 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0786962054 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Faces of Deception by : Troy Denning
Guided by the goddess of beauty, an ugly nobleman ventures to the Utter East in search of a cure for his facial deformities Atreus of Erlkazar has always been hidden from his powerful family's enemies, concealed behind the hideous mask of his own face. The result of a wayward spell that distorted his features, Atreus’ ugliness is a curse he has borne since he was just a child—and one he has spent his entire life trying to break. He is driven to find a way past his own flesh, into a soul torn between destiny and love. In an ironic twist of fate, he becomes an acolyte of Sune, the goddess of beauty. Under her command, he embarks on an impossible mission to the mysterious country of Langdarma, where the magical waters of the Fountain of Infinite Grace await him. Deep in these ancient valleys of the enigmatic Utter East, Atreus will finally look into . . . the faces of deception.
Author |
: David Cook |
Publisher |
: TSR |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 1989-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0880389044 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780880389044 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Horselords by : David Cook
For centuries, the civilized people of the eastern and western realms have dismissed the nomadic inhabitants of the vast middle land as barbarians, but now these nomads are rising with the might to challenge the world
Author |
: David Lowe |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 2015-10-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317324331 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317324331 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Australian Between Empires: The Life of Percy Spender by : David Lowe
Part biography, part transnational history, this study details the life and career of Percy Spender, one of Australia's most prominent twentieth-century political figures.
Author |
: Carla Gardina Pestana |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 2011-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812203493 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812203496 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Protestant Empire by : Carla Gardina Pestana
The imperial expansion of Europe across the globe was one of the most significant events to shape the modern world. Among the many effects of this cataclysmic movement of people and institutions was the intermixture of cultures in the colonies that Europeans created. Protestant Empire is the first comprehensive survey of the dramatic clash of peoples and beliefs that emerged in the diverse religious world of the British Atlantic, including England, Scotland, Ireland, parts of North and South America, the Caribbean, and Africa. Beginning with the role religion played in the lives of believers in West Africa, eastern North America, and western Europe around 1500, Carla Gardina Pestana shows how the Protestant Reformation helped to fuel colonial expansion as bitter rivalries prompted a fierce competition for souls. The English—who were latecomers to the contest for colonies in the Atlantic—joined the competition well armed with a newly formulated and heartfelt anti-Catholicism. Despite officially promoting religious homogeneity, the English found it impossible to prevent the conflicts in their homeland from infecting their new colonies. Diversity came early and grew inexorably, as English, Scottish, and Irish Catholics and Protestants confronted one another as well as Native Americans, West Africans, and an increasing variety of other Europeans. Pestana tells an original and compelling story of their interactions as they clung to their old faiths, learned of unfamiliar religions, and forged new ones. In an account that ranges widely through the Atlantic basin and across centuries, this book reveals the creation of a complicated, contested, and closely intertwined world of believers of many traditions.