Underground Empire

Author : James Mills
Publisher : Dell Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780440192060
Total Pages : 1202 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Underground Empire written by James Mills and published by Dell Publishing Company. This book was released on 1987 with total page 1202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reports on a firsthand investigation into three international criminal networks trafficking in drugs, profiles their leaders, and examines the elite law enforcement agency charged with bringing them to justice

Author : Tim Harper
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674250621
Total Pages : 873 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Underground Asia written by Tim Harper and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 873 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Economist Best Book of the Year A Financial Times Best Book of the Year A major historian tells the dramatic and untold story of the shadowy networks of revolutionaries across Asia who laid the foundations in the early twentieth century for the end of European imperialism on their continent. This is the epic tale of how modern Asia emerged out of conflict between imperial powers and a global network of revolutionaries in the turbulent early decades of the twentieth century. In 1900, European empires had not yet reached their territorial zenith. But a new generation of Asian radicals had already planted the seeds of their destruction. They gained new energy and recruits after the First World War and especially the Bolshevik Revolution, which sparked utopian visions of a free and communist world order led by the peoples of Asia. Aided by the new technologies of cheap printing presses and international travel, they built clandestine webs of resistance from imperial capitals to the front lines of insurgency that stretched from Calcutta and Bombay to Batavia, Hanoi, and Shanghai. Tim Harper takes us into the heart of this shadowy world by following the interconnected lives of the most remarkable of these Marxists, anarchists, and nationalists, including the Bengali radical M. N. Roy, the iconic Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh, and the enigmatic Indonesian communist Tan Malaka. He recreates the extraordinary milieu of stowaways, false identities, secret codes, cheap firearms, and conspiracies in which they worked. He shows how they fought with subterfuge, violence, and persuasion, all the while struggling to stay one step ahead of imperial authorities. Underground Asia shows for the first time how Asia’s national liberation movements crucially depended on global action. And it reveals how the consequences of the revolutionaries’ struggle, for better or worse, shape Asia’s destiny to this day. Previous praise for Tim Harper Praise for Forgotten Wars: “[A] compelling book.”—Philip Delves Broughton, Wall Street Journal “Lucid...majestic.”—Peter Preston, The Observer “Authoritative.”—Pankaj Mishra, New Yorker Praise for Forgotten Armies: “Panoramic... Vivid.”—Benjamin Schwarz, New York Times Book Review “A spectacular book.”—Martin Jacques, The Guardian

Author : Jeff Ferrell
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814727379
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire of Scrounge written by Jeff Ferrell and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout this engaging narrative, full of a colorful cast of characters, from the mansion living suburbanites to the junk haulers themselves, Ferrell makes a persuasive argument about the dangers of over-consumption.

Author : Henry Farrell
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1250840562
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Underground Empire written by Henry Farrell and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply researched investigation that reveals how the United States is like a spider at the heart of an international web of surveillance and control, which it weaves in the form of globe-spanning networks such as fiber optic cables and obscure payment systems America’s security state first started to weaponize these channels after 9/11, when they seemed like necessities to combat terrorism—but now they’re a matter of course. Multinational companies like AT&T and Citicorp build hubs, which they use to make money, but which the government can also deploy as choke points. Today’s headlines about trade wars, sanctions, and technology disputes are merely tremors hinting at far greater seismic shifts beneath the surface. Slowly but surely, Washington has turned the most vital pathways of the world economy into tools of domination over foreign businesses and countries, whether they are rivals or allies, allowing the U.S. to maintain global supremacy. In the process, we have sleepwalked into a new struggle for empire. Using true stories, field-defining findings, and original reporting, Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman show how the most ordinary aspects of the post–Cold War economy have become realms of subterfuge and coercion, and what we must do to ensure that this new arms race doesn’t spiral out of control.

Author : Thomas Knapp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989931380
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Underground Empire written by Thomas Knapp and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Underground Empire of Quan'Dor had been spoken of in hushed whispers by the people of the Free Provinces for generations. Untold riches and wonder awaited those who could brave the dark depths, relics from an era before record by people who could shape the very world itself to suit their desires. For Pirogoeth, it's not wealth or fame, but necessity, that drives her and her adventuring party into the underground; seeking a path behind the massive Daynish armies where she hopes to be able to strike directly at the Winter Walkers that command the horde. But what she finds deep below might just prove to be a greater threat than the men above...

Author : Milkyway Media
Publisher : Milkyway Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary of Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman's Underground Empire written by Milkyway Media and published by Milkyway Media. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the Summary of Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman's Underground Empire in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Walter Wriston, ex-chairman of Citibank, foresaw the information revolution's impact on global politics, predicting a decline in state sovereignty and the rise of a global marketplace. His vision, influenced by his father and economist Friedrich von Hayek, emphasized market freedoms as essential for individual liberty. Wriston's tenure at Citibank was marked by financial innovations, such as funding Malcolm McLean's containerization and creating the Eurodollar market, which led to a private global payments system...

Author : Chandra D. Bhimull
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479873055
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire in the Air written by Chandra D. Bhimull and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the role that race played in the inception of the airline industry Empire in the Air is at once a history of aviation, and an examination of how air travel changed lives along the transatlantic corridor of the African diaspora. Focusing on Britain and its Caribbean colonies, Chandra Bhimull reveals how the black West Indies shaped the development of British Airways. Bhimull offers a unique analysis of early airline travel, illuminating the links among empire, aviation and diaspora, and in doing so provides insights into how racially oppressed people experienced air travel. The emergence of artificial flight revolutionized the movement of people and power, and Bhimull makes the connection between airplanes and the other vessels that have helped make and maintain the African diaspora: the slave ships of the Middle Passage, the tracks of the Underground Railroad, and Marcus Garvey’s black-owned ocean liner. As a new technology, airline travel retained the racialist ideas and practices that were embedded in British imperialism, and these ideas shaped every aspect of how commercial aviation developed, from how airline routes were set, to who could travel easily and who could not. The author concludes with a look at airline travel today, suggesting that racism is still enmeshed in the banalities of contemporary flight.

Author : Tim Harper
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674724615
Total Pages : 873 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Underground Asia written by Tim Harper and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 873 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major historian tells the dramatic and untold story of the shadowy networks of revolutionaries across Asia who laid the foundations in the early twentieth century for the end of European imperialism on their continent. This is the epic tale of how modern Asia emerged out of conflict between imperial powers and a global network of revolutionaries in the turbulent early decades of the twentieth century. In 1900, European empires had not yet reached their territorial zenith. But a new generation of Asian radicals had already planted the seeds of their destruction. They gained new energy and recruits after the First World War and especially the Bolshevik Revolution, which sparked utopian visions of a free and communist world order led by the peoples of Asia. Aided by the new technologies of cheap printing presses and international travel, they built clandestine webs of resistance from imperial capitals to the front lines of insurgency that stretched from Calcutta and Bombay to Batavia, Hanoi, and Shanghai. Tim Harper takes us into the heart of this shadowy world by following the interconnected lives of the most remarkable of these Marxists, anarchists, and nationalists, including the Bengali radical M. N. Roy, the iconic Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh, and the enigmatic Indonesian communist Tan Malaka. He recreates the extraordinary milieu of stowaways, false identities, secret codes, cheap firearms, and conspiracies in which they worked. He shows how they fought with subterfuge, violence, and persuasion, all the while struggling to stay one step ahead of imperial authorities. Undergound Asia shows for the first time how Asia’s national liberation movements crucially depended on global action. And it reveals how the consequences of the revolutionaries’ struggle, for better or worse, shape Asia’s destiny to this day.

Author : HENRY. NEWMAN FARRELL (ABRAHAM.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781802062076
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book UNDERGROUND EMPIRE written by HENRY. NEWMAN FARRELL (ABRAHAM.) and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gwyneth Hughes
Publisher : St Martins Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312052959
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Empire written by Gwyneth Hughes and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the previously untold history of the Soviet Union, from the Revolution, Lenin, and Trotsky to World War II, the Cold War, and glasnost