Divided Empire

Author : Robert Thomas Fallon
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271071559
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Divided Empire written by Robert Thomas Fallon and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1995-09-08 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Divided Empire, Robert T. Fallon examines the influence of John Milton's political experience on his great poems: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes. This study is a natural sequel to Fallon's previous book, Milton in Government, which examined Milton's decade of service as Secretary for Foreign Languages to the English Republic. Milton's works are crowded with political figures—kings, counselors, senators, soldiers, and envoys—all engaged in a comparable variety of public acts—debate, decree, diplomacy, and warfare—in a manner similar to those who exercised power on the world stage during his time in public office. Traditionally, scholars have cited this imagery for two purposes: first, to support studies of the poet's political allegiances as reflected in his prose and his life; and, second, to demonstrate that his works are sympathetic to certain ideological positions popular in present times. Fallon argues that Paradise Lost is not a political testament, however, and to read its lines as a critique of allegiances and ideologies outside the work is limit the range and scope of critical inquiry and to miss the larger purpose of the political imagery within the poem. That imagery, the author proposes, like that of all Milton's later works, serves to illuminate the spiritual message, a vision of the human soul caught up in the struggle between vast metaphysical forces of good and evil. Fallon seeks to enlarge the range of critical inquiry by assessing the influence of personal and historical events upon art, asking, as he puts it, "not what the poetry says about the events, but what the events say about the poetry." Divided Empire probes, not Milton's judgment on his sources, but the use he made of them.

Author : James Patrick Daughton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195374010
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Empire Divided written by James Patrick Daughton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With case studies on Indochina, Polynesia, and Madagascar, this work tells the story of how troubled relations between Catholic missionaries and a host of republican critics shaped colonial policies. It also talks about Catholic perspectives, and domestic French politics in the tumultuous decades before WWI.

Author : Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812293398
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Empire Divided written by Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There were 26—not 13—British colonies in America in 1776. Of these, the six colonies in the Caribbean—Jamaica, Barbados, the Leeward Islands, Grenada and Tobago, St. Vincent; and Dominica—were among the wealthiest. These island colonies were closely related to the mainland by social ties and tightly connected by trade. In a period when most British colonists in North America lived less than 200 miles inland and the major cities were all situated along the coast, the ocean often acted as a highway between islands and mainland rather than a barrier. The plantation system of the islands was so similar to that of the southern mainland colonies that these regions had more in common with each other, some historians argue, than either had with New England. Political developments in all the colonies moved along parallel tracks, with elected assemblies in the Caribbean, like their mainland counterparts, seeking to increase their authority at the expense of colonial executives. Yet when revolution came, the majority of the white island colonists did not side with their compatriots on the mainland. A major contribution to the history of the American Revolution, An Empire Divided traces a split in the politics of the mainland and island colonies after the Stamp Act Crisis of 1765-66, when the colonists on the islands chose not to emulate the resistance of the patriots on the mainland. Once war came, it was increasingly unpopular in the British Caribbean; nonetheless, the white colonists cooperated with the British in defense of their islands. O'Shaughnessy decisively refutes the widespread belief that there was broad backing among the Caribbean colonists for the American Revolution and deftly reconstructs the history of how the island colonies followed an increasingly divergent course from the former colonies to the north.

Author : John Moorhead
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317861434
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roman Empire Divided written by John Moorhead and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 400 the mighty Roman Empire was almost as large as it had ever been; within three centuries, advances by Germanic peoples in western Europe, Slavs in eastern Europe and Arabs around the eastern and southern shores of the Mediterranean had brought about the loss of most of its territory. Ranging from Britain to Mesopotamia, this book explores the changes that resulted from these movements. It shows the different paths away from the classical past that were taken, and how the relatively unified civilization of the ancient Mediterranean gave place to the very different civilizations that cluster around the sea today. This comprehensive and authoritative second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated line-by-line, and contains several new sections dealing for instance with the new evidence provided by recent finds like the Staffordshire Treasure and the widespread effects of the plague. As well as a completely new bibliographical essay, The Roman Empire Divided now also includes six maps and an expanded selection of illustrations fully integrated in the text.

Author : James L. Gelvin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520210700
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Divided Loyalties written by James L. Gelvin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A novel study. Mass politics are central to our century, and Gelvin brings them to life in a readable narrative. This book adds a new dimension to an ongoing and important debate in the field."—Leila Fawaz, author of An Occasion for War

Author : Mary Dewhurst Lewis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520957148
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Divided Rule written by Mary Dewhurst Lewis and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After invading Tunisia in 1881, the French installed a protectorate in which they shared power with the Tunisian ruling dynasty and, due to the dynasty’s treaties with other European powers, with some of their imperial rivals. This "indirect" form of colonization was intended to prevent the violent clashes marking France’s outright annexation of neighboring Algeria. But as Mary Dewhurst Lewis shows in Divided Rule, France’s method of governance in Tunisia actually created a whole new set of conflicts. In one of the most dynamic crossroads of the Mediterranean world, residents of Tunisia— whether Muslim, Jewish, or Christian—navigated through the competing power structures to further their civil rights and individual interests and often thwarted the aims of the French state in the process. Over time, these everyday challenges to colonial authority led France to institute reforms that slowly undermined Tunisian sovereignty and replaced it with a more heavy-handed form of rule—a move also intended to ward off France's European rivals, who still sought influence in Tunisia. In so doing, the French inadvertently encouraged a powerful backlash with major historical consequences, as Tunisians developed one of the earliest and most successful nationalist movements in the French empire. Based on archival research in four countries, Lewis uncovers important links between international power politics and everyday matters of rights, identity, and resistance to colonial authority, while re-interpreting the whole arc of French rule in Tunisia from the 1880s to the mid-20th century. Scholars, students, and anyone interested in the history of politics and rights in North Africa, or in the nature of imperialism more generally, will gain a deeper understanding of these issues from this sophisticated study of colonial Tunisia.

Author : Andrew L. Thomas
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004183701
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A House Divided: Wittelsbach Confessional Court Cultures in the Holy Roman Empire, c. 1550-1650 written by Andrew L. Thomas and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the intersection between religious belief, dynastic ambitions, and late Renaissance court culture within the main branches of Germany's most storied ruling house, the Wittelsbach dynasty. Their influence touched many shores from the "coast" of Bohemia to Boston.

Author : Val Taube
Publisher : Mascot Books
ISBN 13 : 9781684014934
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Divided Empire written by Val Taube and published by Mascot Books. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divided Empire is a spy novel about love, espionage, and the end result of Putin's war games. In winter, 2014 - before Russian troops stormed through Ukraine and turned the Crimean peninsula into a launching pad for war - a Ukrainian journalist, Tatiana, and a Russian Navy officer, Alexander, had been in deeply love and planned to get married. However, flame of war put them on opposite sides of the barricades "€" one was on a quest to unearth the dark truths surrounding Putin's invasion and the other was a secret agent of the FSB. On the other side of the Atlantic, two retired CIA agents with critical information about Putin and other Kremlin officials - Sharon and Tom "€" are pulled back into the world of international spy games: from Washington D.C., to Ukraine, from Ukraine to Russia. In Siberia, Sharon and Tatiana's paths intersect at the doorsteps of a Siberian scientist with intimate knowledge about Putin's plans to pay back to Western world leaders for helping Ukraine. Risking their lives, Sharon and Tatiana had to take immediate actions...

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ISBN 13 : 9780761542193
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Star Wars Galaxies written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Live the Saga! - Covers all species, careers, and attributes for character creation - In-depth combat information, including special attacks, group tactics, and healing - All the basics for a healthy economy, from crafting to buying - Details for each planet - Complete weapons, armor, and creature lists - Beginners chapter for MMORPG novices - Detailed maps for major cities on every starting planet - Tips on gaming etiquette - Information on interaction with the game world and players - Tips from testers on the Elite and Hybrid professions

Author : Robert Thomas Fallon
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271041617
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Milton in Government written by Robert Thomas Fallon and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: