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Edge of Empires
Author | : Donald Rayfield |
Publsiher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2013-02-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781780230702 |
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Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, Georgia is a country of rainforests and swamps, snow and glaciers, and semi-arid plains. It has ski resorts and mineral springs, monuments and an oil pipeline. It also has one of the longest and most turbulent histories in the Christian or Near Eastern world, but no comprehensive, up-to-date account has been written about this little-known country—until now. Remedying this omission, Donald Rayfield accesses a mass of new material from recently opened archives to tell Georgia’s absorbing story. Beginning with the first intimations of the existence of Georgians in ancient Anatolia and ending with the volatile presidency of Mikheil Saakashvili, Rayfield deals with the country’s internal politics and swings between disintegration and unity, and divulges Georgia’s complex struggles with the empires that have tried to control, fragment, or even destroy it. He describes the country’s conflicts with Xenophon’s Greeks, Arabs, invading Turks, the Crusades, Genghis Khan, the Persian Empire, the Russian Empire, and Soviet totalitarianism. A wide-ranging examination of this small but colorful country, its dramatic state-building, and its tragic political mistakes, Edge of Empires draws our eyes to this often overlooked nation.
Edge of Empire
Author | : Maya Jasanoff |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780307425713 |
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In this imaginative book, Maya Jasanoff uncovers the extraordinary stories of collectors who lived on the frontiers of the British Empire in India and Egypt, tracing their exploits to tell an intimate history of imperialism. Jasanoff delves beneath the grand narratives of power, exploitation, and resistance to look at the British Empire through the eyes of the people caught up in it. Written and researched on four continents, Edge of Empire enters a world where people lived, loved, mingled, and identified with one another in ways richer and more complex than previous accounts have led us to believe were possible. And as this book demonstrates, traces of that world remain tangible—and topical—today. An innovative, persuasive, and provocative work of history.
The Empires Edge
Author | : Sasha Davis |
Publsiher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780820347356 |
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Based on a decade of research, The Empires' Edge examines the tremendous damage the militarization of the Pacific has wrought and contends that the great political contest of the twenty-first century is about the choice between domination or the pursuit of a more egalitarian and cooperative future.
Edge of Empires
Author | : John M. CARROLL,John M Carroll |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674029231 |
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In Edge of Empires, Carroll situates Hong Kong squarely within the framework of both Chinese and British colonial history, while exploring larger questions about the meaning and implications of colonialism in modern history.
Star Wars Edge of the Empire Roleplaying Game
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Fantasy games |
ISBN | : 1633443116 |
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Edge of Empire
Author | : Fabrício Prado |
Publsiher | : University of California Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2015-10-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520285163 |
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In the first decades of the 1800s, after almost three centuries of Iberian rule, former Spanish territories fragmented into more than a dozen new polities. Edge of Empire analyzes the emergence of Montevideo as a hot spot of Atlantic trade and regional center of power, often opposing Buenos Aires. By focusing on commercial and social networks in the Rio de la Plata region, the book examines how Montevideo merchant elites used transimperial connections to expand their influence and how their trade offered crucial support to Montevideo’s autonomist projects. These transimperial networks offered different political, social, and economic options to local societies and shaped the politics that emerged in the region, including the formation of Uruguay. Connecting South America to the broader Atlantic World, this book provides an excellent case study for examining the significance of cross-border interactions in shaping independence processes and political identities.
At the Edge of Empire
Author | : Eric Hinderaker,Peter C. Mancall |
Publsiher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2003-05-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801871379 |
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During the 17th century, the Western border region of North America which existed just beyond the British imperial reach became an area of opportunity, intrigue and conflict for the diverse peoples - Europeans and Indians alike - who lived there. This book examines the complex society there.
Edge of Empires
Author | : Jennifer Chi,Sebastian Heath |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Dura-Europos (Extinct city) |
ISBN | : 0691154686 |
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Published by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University on the occasion of the exhibition Edge of Empires, Sept. 23, 2011-Jan. 8, 2012.