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• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• File Size : 27,8 Mb
• Release Date : 10 April 2017

The man who bought a country -- The emergence of an idea -- King Leopold's Borneo -- Bismarck's Borneo -- Epilogue: "A great act of folly

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• File Size : 38,8 Mb
• Release Date : 10 April 2017

In the 1880s Europeans grabbed vast swaths of the African continent, using documents, not guns, as their weapon of choice. Steven Press follows a paper trail of questionable contracts to

• Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
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• Release Date : 15 March 2010

A history of US imperialism that uncovers the ever present exploitation, violence and media control that have marked the last two decades of empire.

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
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• Release Date : 16 May 2023

“Brilliant, ambitious, and often surprising. A remarkable contribution to the current global debate about Empire and a small masterpiece of research and conceptual reimagining.” —William Dalrymple, author of The Anarchy:

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
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• Release Date : 11 June 2024

Rogue Empires takes a new look at the origins and consequences of a key moment in European History: the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885. Drawing on archival research conducted in ten

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 26,5 Mb
• Release Date : 15 September 2008

Building the Devil’s Empire is the first comprehensive history of New Orleans’s early years, tracing the town’s development from its origins in 1718 to its revolt against Spanish

• Publisher : EUP
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• Release Date : 28 February 2023

In Age of Rogues, leading scholars engage with themes of historical and cultural legacies, contentious interactions within imperial regimes, and the biographical trajectory of men and women who challenged the

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 29,7 Mb
• Release Date : 22 May 2019

In 1919 the Treaty of Versailles stripped Germany of its overseas colonies. This sudden transition to a post-colonial nation left the men and women invested in German imperialism to rebuild their

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
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• Release Date : 17 October 2019

This book offers an accessible and lively survey of the global history of the age of industrialization and globalization that arose in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars and collapsed

• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
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• Release Date : 20 July 2021

The epic story of the Congo-Océan railroad and the human costs and contradictions of modern empire. The Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to