[PDF] Empire To Commonwealth eBook

Author : Garth Fowden
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 27,87 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0691015457

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In this bold approach to late antiquity, Garth Fowden shows how, from the second-century peak of Rome's prosperity to the ninth-century onset of the Islamic Empire's decline, powerful beliefs in One God were used to justify and strengthen "world empires." But tensions between orthodoxy and heresy that were inherent in monotheism broke the unitary empires of Byzantium and Baghdad into the looser, more pluralistic commonwealths of Eastern Christendom and Islam. With rare breadth of vision, Fowden traces this transition from empire to commonwealth, and in the process exposes the sources of major cultural contours that still play a determining role in Europe and southwest Asia.

Author : Martin Kitchen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 23,66 MB
Release : 1996-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1349248304

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From its modest to its recent disappearance, the British Empire was an extraordinary and paradoxical entity. North America, Africa, South and Southeast Asia and Australasia and innumerable small islands and territories have been fundamentally shaped - economically, socially and politically - by a nation whose imperial drive came from a bewildering mixture of rapacity and moral zeal, of high-mindedness and viciousness, of strategic cunning and feckless neglect. Martin Kitchen has written a fascinating, crisp, informative account of the rise and fall of the British Empire, concentrating on the 19th and 20th centuries but giving the background of the 'First British Empire', which was lost with the creating of the United States of America. His book is of particular value in relating the importance of the Empire to Britain's success as the only genuinely world power in the Victorian era and to Britain's ability to win the two great wars of the 20th century.

Author : Michael Hardt
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 42,57 MB
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0674053966

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When Empire appeared in 2000, it defined the political and economic challenges of the era of globalization and, thrillingly, found in them possibilities for new and more democratic forms of social organization. Now, with Commonwealth, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri conclude the trilogy begun with Empire and continued in Multitude, proposing an ethics of freedom for living in our common world and articulating a possible constitution for our common wealth. Drawing on scenarios from around the globe and elucidating the themes that unite them, Hardt and Negri focus on the logic of institutions and the models of governance adequate to our understanding of a global commonwealth. They argue for the idea of the “common” to replace the opposition of private and public and the politics predicated on that opposition. Ultimately, they articulate the theoretical bases for what they call “governing the revolution.” Though this book functions as an extension and a completion of a sustained line of Hardt and Negri’s thought, it also stands alone and is entirely accessible to readers who are not familiar with the previous works. It is certain to appeal to, challenge, and enrich the thinking of anyone interested in questions of politics and globalization.

Author : K. Srinivasan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,3 MB
Release : 2005-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0230248438

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Written by a senior Indian diplomat who has until recently also served as Commonwealth Deputy Secretary-General, this book provides a unique and far-reaching exploration of the British Commonwealth, and its impact since the second World War on the process of Britain adjusting to a world without Empire. Whither the Commonwealth now? What is its record of achievement; what are the benefits of membership to countries in terms of collective political influence, trade, investment, aid, travel and education? Can any practical good be envisaged for this nearly moribund post-colonial organization? Britain, which brought the association into being and is central to it, would have to play a key part in determining its future. But in coming to such decisions, the British Government faces great problems of perception, both from the Monarchy and the British public.

Author : Philip Murphy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 37,20 MB
Release : 2013-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0199214239

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Examines the relationship between the British government, the Palace, and the modern Commonwealth since 1945 and argues that the monarchy's relationship with the Commonwealth, which was initially promoted by the UK as a means of strengthening imperial ties, increasingly became an impediment to British foreign policy.

Author : Edward Grierson
Publisher : Collins Publishers San Francisco
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 21,63 MB
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN :

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This Book Is By All Standards One Of The Best One-Volume History Of The Rise And Fall Of The British Empire.

Author : Saul Dubow
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 11,40 MB
Release : 2020-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 3030417883

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This edited collection draws together new historical writing on the Commonwealth. It features the work of younger scholars, as well as established academics, and highlights themes such as law and sovereignty, republicanism and the monarchy, French engagement with the Commonwealth, the anti-apartheid struggle, race and immigration, memory and commemoration, and banking. The volume focusses less on the Commonwealth as an institution than on the relevance and meaning of the Commonwealth to its member countries and peoples. By adopting oblique, de-centred, approaches to Commonwealth history, unusual or overlooked connections are brought to the fore while old problems are looked at from fresh vantage points – be this turning points like the relationship between ‘old’ and `new’ Commonwealth members from 1949, or the distinctive roles of major figures like Jawaharlal Nehru or Jan Smuts. The volume thereby aims to refresh interest in Commonwealth history as a field of comparative international history.

Author : Goldwin Smith
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 27,39 MB
Release : 2018-12-08
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ISBN : 9780364016138

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Excerpt from Commonwealth or Empire: A Bystander's View of the Question Against the Commonwealth three forces, distinct but convergent, are now arrayed. They are Plutocracy, Militarism, and Impe rialism. The three instinctively conspire; to the plutocrat Imperialism is politically conge nial, while he feels that militarism impregnates society with a Spirit of conservatism, and may in case of a conflict of classes furnish a useful force of repression. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.