Limits Of Empire

Author : Robert J. McMahon
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231108812
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Limits of Empire written by Robert J. McMahon and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete picture to date of how U.S. strategies of containment and empire-building spiraled out of control in Southeast Asia, investigating also how the demoralizing experience of Vietnam radically undermined U.S. enthusiasm for the region in a strategic sense.

Author : Benjamin H. Isaac
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Limits of Empire written by Benjamin H. Isaac and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book won the Best Book Award for 1991 from the American Military Institute.

Author : Sameetah Agha
Publisher : HarperCollins India
ISBN 13 : 9789352879960
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Limits of Empire written by Sameetah Agha and published by HarperCollins India. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The limits of empire presents the first comprehensive history of the great pukhtun revolt of 1897 on the north-west frontier of British Indians of the biggest revolts against the British in sub-continental and British imperial history. Through pioneering archival and field research including the use of rare documents drawn from archives in India, Pakistan and London, and pukhtun oral history accounts previously not referenced in writings on the frontiers challenges the official British imperial account of events surrounding the revolt and the region, and its uncritical acceptance within historiography. The author provides a fascinating account of the lived historical realities of this frontier region. Evidence of sub-imperialism, such as secret telegrams hidden from the upper echelons of the British government and public, helps to document the contrasts between the local regional and colonial perspectives as well as manipulations of major imperial policy failures. Rare examples of pukhtun oral histories further our knowledge of how colonialism actually functioned on the north-west frontier, and how resistance to it thrived and ultimately prevailed. Reconstructing the untold story of the 1897 war, this is a meticulous and critical historical analysis that reveals the operations of, and resistance to, empire at its margins. It offers fresh insights into the nature of colonial defence and expansion in India, pukhtun resistance, and provides a new context for understanding the limits of empire. This book will be invaluable for students and scholars of history, and those interested in contemporary conflicts in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Author : Mark Hebblewhite
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351594761
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theodosius and the Limits of Empire written by Mark Hebblewhite and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emperor Theodosius I (AD 379–395) was one of the most remarkable figures of the late antique period. In the face of religious schism, political turmoil, and barbarian threats he managed to maintain imperial power and forge a political dynasty that would dominate both east and west for over half a century. This study, the first English language biography in over twenty years, traces his rise to power and tumultuous reign, and examines his indelible impact on a rapidly changing empire.

Author : Professor Tonio Andrade
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409471144
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Limits of Empire: European Imperial Formations in Early Modern World History written by Professor Tonio Andrade and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, published in honor of historian Geoffrey Parker, explores the working of European empires in a global perspective, focusing on one of the most important themes of Parker’s work: the limits of empire, which is to say, the centrifugal forces – sacral, dynastic, military, diplomatic, geographical, informational – that plagued imperial formations in the early modern period (1500–1800). During this time of wrenching technological, demographic, climatic, and economic change, empires had to struggle with new religious movements, incipient nationalisms, new sea routes, new military technologies, and an evolving state system with complex new rules of diplomacy. Engaging with a host of current debates, the chapters in this book break away from conventional historical conceptions of empire as an essentially western phenomenon with clear demarcation lines between the colonizer and the colonized. These are replaced here by much more fluid and subtle conceptions that highlight complex interplays between coalitions of rulers and ruled. In so doing, the volume builds upon recent work that increasingly suggests that empires simply could not exist without the consent of their imperial subjects, or at least significant groups of them. This was as true for the British Raj as it was for imperial China or Russia. Whilst the thirteen chapters in this book focus on a number of geographic regions and adopt different approaches, each shares a focus on, and interest in, the working of empires and the ways that imperial formations dealt with – or failed to deal with – the challenges that beset them. Taken together, they reflect a new phase in the evolving historiography of empire. They also reflect the scholarly contributions of the dedicatee, Geoffrey Parker, whose life and work are discussed in the introductory chapters and, we’re proud to say, in a delightful chapter by Parker himself, an autobiographical reflection that closes the book.

Author : Geir Lundestad
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191641006
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Decline of the American "Empire" written by Geir Lundestad and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rise and Decline of the American "Empire" explores the rapidly growing literature on the rise and fall of the United States. The author argues that after 1945 the US has definitely been the most dominant power the world has seen and that it has successfully met the challenges from, first, the Soviet Union and, then, Japan, and the European Union. Now, however, the United States is in decline: its vast military power is being challenged by asymmetrical wars, its economic growth is slow and its debt is rising rapidly, the political system is proving unable to meet these challenges in a satisfactory way. While the US is still likely to remain the world's leading power for the foreseeable future, it is being challenged by China, particularly economically, and also by several other regional Great Powers. The book also addresses the more theoretical question of what recent superpowers have been able to achieve and what they have not achieved. How could the United States be both the dominant power and at the same time suffer significant defeats? And how could the Soviet Union suddenly collapse? No power has ever been omnipotent. It cannot control events all around the world. The Soviet Union suffered from imperial overstretch; the traditional colonial empires suffered from a growing lack of legitimacy at the international, national, and local levels. The United States has been able to maintain its alliance system, but only in a much reformed way. If a small power simply insists on pursuing its own very different policies, there is normally little the United States and other Great Powers will do. Military intervention is an option that can be used only rarely and most often with strikingly limited results.

Author : David Anthony Bello
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684174058
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Opium and the Limits of EmpireOpium and the Limits of Empire written by David Anthony Bello and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The British opium trade along China’s seacoast has come to symbolize China’s century-long descent into political and social chaos. In the standard historical narrative, opium is the primary medium through which China encountered the economic, social, and political institutions of the West. Opium, however, was not a Sino–British problem confined to southeastern China. It was, rather, an empire-wide crisis, and its spread among an ethnically diverse populace created regionally and culturally distinct problems of control for the Qing state. This book examines the crisis from the perspective of Qing prohibition efforts. The author argues that opium prohibition, and not the opium wars, was genuinely imperial in scale and is hence much more representative of the actual drug problem faced by Qing administrators. The study of prohibition also permits a more comprehensive and accurate observation of the economics and criminology of opium. The Qing drug traffic involved the domestic production, distribution, and consumption of opium. A balanced examination of the opium market and state anti-drug policy in terms of prohibition reveals the importance of the empire’s landlocked western frontier regions, which were the domestic production centers, in what has previously been considered an essentially coastal problem."

Author : Philip Verhagen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030045765
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finding the Limits of the Limes written by Philip Verhagen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-08 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book demonstrates the application of simulation modelling and network analysis techniques in the field of Roman studies. It summarizes and discusses the results of a 5-year research project carried out by the editors that aimed to apply spatial dynamical modelling to reconstruct and understand the socio-economic development of the Dutch part of the Roman frontier (limes) zone, in particular the agrarian economy and the related development of settlement patterns and transport networks in the area. The project papers are accompanied by invited chapters presenting case studies and reflections from other parts of the Roman Empire focusing on the themes of subsistence economy, demography, transport and mobility, and socio-economic networks in the Roman period. The book shows the added value of state-of-the-art computer modelling techniques and bridges computational and conventional approaches. Topics that will be of particular interest to archaeologists are the question of (forced) surplus production, the demographic and economic effects of the Roman occupation on the local population, and the structuring of transport networks and settlement patterns. For modellers, issues of sensitivity analysis and validation of modelling results are specifically addressed. This book will appeal to students and researchers working in the computational humanities and social sciences, in particular, archaeology and ancient history.

Author : Gerald Suster
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781556434723
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Dee written by Gerald Suster and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2003-08-08 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although revered in his own time, John Dee (1527-1608) was until recently regarded as an isolated crank on the margins of Tudor history. This anthology of Dee's writings illustrates his diverse interests and his central position in the history of Renaissance thought and the development of Western Magic. Dee's celebrated Preface to Euclid is included along with selections from his Spiritual Diaries and letters to other mystics and royals. In addition to Hermetic and Cabalistic philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, astrology, and navigation are also covered.

Author : Simon Forty
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1636240771
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Limits of Empire written by Simon Forty and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2022-01-14 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The borders of the Roman Empire were frontiers that were often wild and dangerous. The expansion of the empire after the Punic Wars saw the Roman Republic become the dominant force in the Mediterranean as it first took Carthaginian territories in Gaul, Spain and north Africa and then moved into Greece with purpose, subjugating the area and creating two provinces, Achaea and Macedonia. The growth of the territories under Roman control continued through the rise of Julius Caesar – who conquered the rest of Gaul – and the establishment of the empire: each of the emperors could point to territories annexed and lands won. By AD 117 and the accession of Hadrian, the empire had reached its peak. It held sway from Britain to Morocco, from Spain to the Black Sea. And its wealth was coveted by those outside its borders. Just as today those from poorer countries try to make their way into Europe or North America, so those outside the empire wanted to make their way into the Promised Land – for trade, for improvement of their lives or for plunder. Thus the Roman borders became a mix – just as our borders are today – of defensive bulwark against enemies, but also control areas where import and export taxes were levied, and entrance was controlled. Some of these borders were hard: the early equivalents of the Inner German Border or Trump’s Wall – Hadrian’s Wall and the line between the Rhine and Danube. Others, such as these two great rivers, were natural borders that the Romans policed with their navy. This book examines these frontiers of the empire, looking at the way they were constructed and manned and how that changed over the years. It looks at the physical barriers – from the walls in Britain to the Fossatum Africae in the desert. It looks at the traders and the prices that were paid for the traffic of goods. It looks at the way that civil settlements – vici – grew up around the forts and fortlets and what life was like for soldiers, sailors and civilians. As well as artefacts of the period, the book provides a guidebook to top Roman museums and a gazetteer of visitable sites