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Imperialism
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Author:Chomsky, NoamSummary: -
Author:Mirrlees, TannerSummary:The US security state is everywhere in cultural products: in army-supported news stories, TV shows, and video games; in CIA-influenced blockbusters and comics; and in State Department ads, broadcasts, and websites. Hearts and Mines...
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Author:Conrad, JosephSummary:On board the British ship the NELLIE, Marlow told a group of men his story... He told them of his strange, eventful, yet horrific journey into Africa as an agent for the Company, which traded in ivory. He had witnessed the terrible...
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Author:Helprin, MarkSummary:Freddy is the bright but aloof Prince of Wales. Fredericka is his blonde, beautiful and beloved wife. When they stumble into a public relations nightmare with no easy solution, they must make amends by serving an unusual penance....
- Author:Marti, Steve, Pratt, William JohnSummary:
Canadians often characterize their military history as a march toward nationhood, but in the first eighty years of Confederation they were fighting for the British Empire. War forced Canadians to re-examine their relationship to Britain...
- Author:Ford, R. S.Summary:
This epic fantasy tells the tales of clashing Guilds, magic-fueled machines, intrigue, and revolution--and the one family that stands between an empire's salvation or destruction.
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Author:Laxer, James, Springer, JaneSummary:"[The Groundwork Guides] are excellent books, mandatory for school libraries and the increasing body of young people prepared to take ownership of the situations and problems previous generations have left them." -- Globe and Mail. The...
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Author:White, Nicolas J.Summary:This updated Seminar Studies volume provides an overview of the process of British decolonisation. The eclipse of the British empire has, of course, been one of the central features of postwar international history. At the end of the...
- Author:Sewell, BillSummary:
Civilians play crucial roles in building empires. Constructing Empire shows how Japanese urban planners, architects, and other civilians contributed to constructing a modern colonial enclave in northeast China, their visions shifting...
- Author:Hoyer, KatjaSummary:
Before 1871, Germany was not yet a nation but simply an idea. In this study of five decades that changed the course of history, Katja Hoyer tells the story of the German Empire's beginning to its defeat in World War I.
- Author:Waugh, EvelynSummary:
- Author:Kuang, R. F.Summary:
Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of The Poppy War "Absolutely phenomenal. One of the most brilliant, razor-sharp books I've had the pleasure of reading that isn't just an alternative fantastical history, but an...
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Author:Garrison, JamesSummary:In America as Empire, Jim Garrison urges us to face up to the complexities and responsibilities inherent in the indisputable fact that America is now the world's single preeminent power. "America," Garrison writes, "has become what it...
- Author:Isaac, Brian ThomasSummary:
It's 1956, and six-year-old Eddie Toma lives with his mother, Grace, and his little brother, Lewis, near the Salmon River on the far edge of the Okanagan Indian Reserve in the British Columbia Southern Interior. Grace, her friend Isabel...
- Author:Martine, ArkadySummary:
Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will...
- Author:Rao, NilimaSummary:
1914, Fiji: Akal Singh, 25, would rather be anywhere but this tropical paradise-or, as he calls it, "this godforsaken island." After a promising start to his police career in Hong Kong, Akal has been sent to Fiji as punishment for a...
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