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Author |
: Andrew Robert Lee Cayton |
Publisher |
: Ohio University Press |
Total Pages |
: 234 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780821416204 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0821416200 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Center of a Great Empire by : Andrew Robert Lee Cayton
A forested borderland dominated by American Indians in 1780, Ohio was a landscape of farms and towns inhabited by people from all over the world in 1830. The Center of a Great Empire: The Ohio Country in the Early Republic chronicles this dramatic and all-encompassing change. Editors Andrew R.L. Cayton and Stuart D. Hobbs have assembled a focused collection of articles by established and rising scholars that address the conquest of Native Americans, the emergence of a democratic political culture, the origins of capitalism, the formation of public culture, the growth of evangelical Protestantism, the ambiguous status of African Americans, and social life in a place that most contemporaries saw as on the cutting edge of human history. Indeed, to understand what was happening in the Ohio country in the decades after the American Revolution is to go a long way toward understanding what was happening in the United States and the Atlantic world as a whole. For The Center of a Great Empire, distinguished historians of the American nation in its first decades question conventional wisdom. Downplaying the frontier character of Ohio, they offer new answers and open new paths of inquiry through investigations of race, education, politics, religion, family, commerce, colonialism, and conquest. As it underscores key themes in the history of the United States,The Center of a Great Empire pursues issues that have fascinated people for two centuries.Andrew R. L. Cayton, distinguished professor of history at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, is the author of several books, including Ohio: The History of a People and, with Fred Anderson, The Dominion of War: Liberty and Empire in North America, 1500-2000 . Stuart D. Hobbs is program director for History in the Heartland, a professional development program for middle and high school teachers of history. Hobbs is the author of The End of the American Avant Garde.
Author |
: Daniel Immerwahr |
Publisher |
: Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages |
: 372 |
Release |
: 2019-02-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780374715120 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0374715122 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis How to Hide an Empire by : Daniel Immerwahr
Named one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago Tribune A Publishers Weekly best book of 2019 | A 2019 NPR Staff Pick A pathbreaking history of the United States’ overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an “empire,” exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories—the islands, atolls, and archipelagos—this country has governed and inhabited? In How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light. We travel to the Guano Islands, where prospectors collected one of the nineteenth century’s most valuable commodities, and the Philippines, site of the most destructive event on U.S. soil. In Puerto Rico, Immerwahr shows how U.S. doctors conducted grisly experiments they would never have conducted on the mainland and charts the emergence of independence fighters who would shoot up the U.S. Congress. In the years after World War II, Immerwahr notes, the United States moved away from colonialism. Instead, it put innovations in electronics, transportation, and culture to use, devising a new sort of influence that did not require the control of colonies. Rich with absorbing vignettes, full of surprises, and driven by an original conception of what empire and globalization mean today, How to Hide an Empire is a major and compulsively readable work of history.
Author |
: Robin Waterfield |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 314 |
Release |
: 2012-10-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199931521 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199931526 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dividing the Spoils by : Robin Waterfield
A gripping account of one of the great forgotten wars of history, revealing how Alexander the Great's vast empire was torn asunder in the years after his death
Author |
: Chandler Belden Beach |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 814 |
Release |
: 1897 |
ISBN-10 |
: IOWA:31858058511167 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Student's Cyclopaedia by : Chandler Belden Beach
Author |
: Peter Fibiger Bang |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 1353 |
Release |
: 2020-12-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780197532782 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0197532780 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford World History of Empire by : Peter Fibiger Bang
This is the first world history of empire, reaching from the third millennium BCE to the present. By combining synthetic surveys, thematic comparative essays, and numerous chapters on specific empires, its two volumes provide unparalleled coverage of imperialism throughout history and across continents, from Asia to Europe and from Africa to the Americas. Only a few decades ago empire was believed to be a thing of the past; now it is clear that it has been and remains one of the most enduring forms of political organization and power. We cannot understand the dynamics and resilience of empire without moving decisively beyond the study of individual cases or particular periods, such as the relatively short age of European colonialism. The history of empire, as these volumes amply demonstrate, needs to be drawn on the much broader canvas of global history. Volume Two: The History of Empires tracks the protean history of political domination from the very beginnings of state formation in the Bronze Age up to the present. Case studies deal with the full range of the historical experience of empire, from the realms of the Achaemenids and Asoka to the empires of Mali and Songhay, and from ancient Rome and China to the Mughals, American settler colonialism, and the Soviet Union. Forty-five chapters detailing the history of individual empires are tied together by a set of global synthesizing surveys that structure the world history of empire into eight chronological phases.
Author |
: Emily Wilson |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2014-09-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199926657 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199926654 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Greatest Empire by : Emily Wilson
By any measure, Seneca (?4-65AD) is one of the most significant figures in both Roman literature and ancient philosophy. His writings are voluminous and diverse, ranging from satire to disturbing, violent tragedies, from metaphysical theory to moral and political discussions of virtue and anger. Seneca found himself at the turbulent center of Roman imperial power, making him thus an important witness to the Empire's first dynasty, the Julio-Claudians. Exiled by the emperor Claudius in the wake of a sex scandal, he was eventually brought back to Rome to become tutor and, later, speech-writer and advisor to Nero. Seneca was suspected of plotting against Nero, condemned to die, and ultimately took his own life-an act that is one of the most iconic suicides in Western history. The life and works of Seneca pose a number of fascinating challenges. How can we reconcile the bloody tragedies with the prose works advocating a life of Stoic tranquility? How are we to balance Seneca the man of principle, who counseled a life of calm and simplicity, with Seneca the man of the moment, who amassed a vast personal fortune in the service of an emperor seen by many, at the time and afterwards, as an insane tyrant? In this definitive and moving biography, Emily Wilson presents Seneca as a man under enormous pressure, struggling for compromise in a world of absolutism. The Greatest Empire offers us the portrait of a life lived perilously in the gap between political realities and philosophical ideals, between what we aspire to be and what we are.
Author |
: Chandler Belden Beach |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 614 |
Release |
: 1906 |
ISBN-10 |
: PRNC:32101062347396 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Student's Reference Work by : Chandler Belden Beach
Author |
: Claudia Nelson |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 2019-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198846031 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198846037 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Topologies of the Classical World in Children's Fiction by : Claudia Nelson
Beginning with Rudyard Kipling and Edith Nesbit and concluding with best-selling series still ongoing at the time of writing, this volume examines works of twentieth- and twenty-first-century children's literature that incorporate character types, settings, and narratives derived from the Greco-Roman past. Drawing on a cognitive poetics approach to reception studies, it argues that authors typically employ a limited and powerful set of spatial metaphors - palimpsest, map, and fractal - to organize the classical past for preteen and adolescent readers. Palimpsest texts see the past as a collection of strata in which each new era forms a layer superimposed upon a foundation laid earlier; map texts use the metaphor of the mappable journey to represent a protagonist's process of maturing while gaining knowledge of the self and/or the world; fractal texts, in which small parts of the narrative are thematically identical to the whole, present the past in a way that implies that history is infinitely repeatable. While a given text may embrace multiple metaphors in presenting the past, associations between dominant metaphors, genre, and outlook emerge from the case studies examined in each chapter, revealing remarkable thematic continuities in how the past is represented and how agency is attributed to protagonists: each model, it is suggested, uses the classical past to urge and thus perhaps to develop a particular approach to life.
Author |
: North Carolina Literary and Historical Association |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 172 |
Release |
: 1919 |
ISBN-10 |
: HARVARD:32044081141368 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Proceedings of the State Literary and Historical Association of North Carolina by : North Carolina Literary and Historical Association
Author |
: Archibald Wilberforce |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 620 |
Release |
: 1893 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015061863513 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Capitals of the Globe by : Archibald Wilberforce