Author : Brian Lapping
Publisher :
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 17,71 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Commonwealth countries
ISBN : 9780246119698
End of Empire
Brian Lapping
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Imperial Ends
Alexander J. Motyl
Author : Alexander J. Motyl
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,75 MB
Release : 2001-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231506700
Despite their historical importance, empires have received scant attention from social scientists. Now, Alexander J. Motyl examines the structure, dynamics, and continuing relevance of empire—and asks, "Why do empires decline? Why do some empires collapse? And why do some collapsed empires revive?" Rejecting choice-centered theories of imperial decline, Motyl maintains that the very structure of empires promotes decay and that decay in turn facilitates the progressive loss of territory. Although most major empires have in fact declined in this manner, some, such as the Soviet Union, have collapsed suddenly and comprehensively. Motyl explains how and why collapse occurs, why such an outcome is hard to foresee, and why some collapsed empires revive. While broad-ranging historically and empirically, Imperial Ends focuses on five modern empires: the Soviet, Romanov, Ottoman, Habsburg, and Wilhelmine. Examining the possibility of a revival of the Soviet empire, Motyl points out that the expansion of NATO and the European Union, along with increasing globalization, will isolate Russia and its neighbors, promoting their dependence upon one another and perhaps facilitating the rise of the former core. With boldly stated conclusions and concise analytical interpretations, Imperial Ends cohesively illustrates to policymakers and social scientists alike the importance of possible imperial revivals and the rise of future empires.
End of Empire
David Porter Chandler
Author : David Porter Chandler
Publisher : ASIA Insights
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,50 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9788776941826
Events during the one hundred days following Hiroshima had a profound effect on politics and society for decades to come.
Ends of Empire
Laura Brown
Author : Laura Brown
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 27,83 MB
Release : 1993
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9780801480959
This book explores the representation of women in english literature from the Restoration to the fall of Walpole.
The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire
Martin Thomas
Author : Martin Thomas
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 40,35 MB
Release : 2019-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0198713193
This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online.
The End of the Empire
Alexis A. Gilliland
Author : Alexis A. Gilliland
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 36,43 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345313348
Knowledge and the Ends of Empire
Ian W. Campbell
Author : Ian W. Campbell
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 35,3 MB
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1501707892
In Knowledge and the Ends of Empire, Ian W. Campbell investigates the connections between knowledge production and policy formation on the Kazak steppes of the Russian Empire. Hoping to better govern the region, tsarist officials were desperate to obtain reliable information about an unfamiliar environment and population. This thirst for knowledge created opportunities for Kazak intermediaries to represent themselves and their landscape to the tsarist state. Because tsarist officials were uncertain of what the steppe was, and disagreed on what could be made of it, Kazaks were able to be part of these debates, at times influencing the policies that were pursued.Drawing on archival materials from Russia and Kazakhstan and a wide range of nineteenth-century periodicals in Russian and Kazak, Campbell tells a story that highlights the contingencies of and opportunities for cooperation with imperial rule. Kazak intermediaries were at first able to put forward their own idiosyncratic views on whether the steppe was to be Muslim or secular, whether it should be a center of stock-raising or of agriculture, and the extent to which local institutions needed to give way to imperial institutions. It was when the tsarist state was most confident in its knowledge of the steppe that it committed its gravest errors by alienating Kazak intermediaries and placing unbearable stresses on pastoral nomads. From the 1890s on, when the dominant visions in St. Petersburg were of large-scale peasant colonization of the steppe and its transformation into a hearth of sedentary agriculture, the same local knowledge that Kazaks had used to negotiate tsarist rule was transformed into a language of resistance.
Ends of British Imperialism
William Roger Louis
Author : William Roger Louis
Publisher : I. B. Tauris
Page : 1092 pages
File Size : 39,53 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN :
Pax Britannica to Pax Americana is the story of the British Empire from its late-nineteenth century flowering to its present extinction. Louis traces the British Empire from the scramble for Africa, the turbulent imperial history of the Second World War in Asia, and the mid-20th century rush to independence to the Suez crisis, the icon of empire's end. It forms the ideal platform from which to examine the aims and outcome of empire. This authoritative and highly engaging history appears at a time when interest in the history of the British Empire has, ironically, never been stronger, making Ends of British Imperialism a must-read item for both scholar and general reader.
End of empire and the English novel since 1945
Rachael Gilmour
Author : Rachael Gilmour
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 41,97 MB
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1784991791
Available in paperback for the first time, this first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Particular genres are also discussed, including the family saga, travel writing, detective fiction and popular romances. All included reflect on the predicament of an England which no longer lies at the centre of imperial power, arriving at a fascinating diversity of conclusions about the meaning and consequences of the end of empire and the privileged location of the novel for discussing what decolonization meant for the domestic English population of the metropole. The book is written in an easy style, unburdened by large sections of abstract reflection. It endeavours to bring alive in a new way the traditions of the English novel.
The End of the Russian Empire
Prof. Michael T. Florinsky
Author : Prof. Michael T. Florinsky
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 28,54 MB
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1787207919
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION—FROM THE TSARS TO THE SOVIETS This economic, political, and social study by a distinguished Russian authority uses a wealth of contemporary evidence—state documents, memoirs, correspondence, statistics—to analyze “the forces which brought about the fall of the Tsars and paved the way for Bolshevism” in the crucial years 1914-1917. Beginning with a survey of the state of the Russian Empire on the eve of World War I, Professor Florinsky shows how the Imperial system failed to meet the challenges raised by that conflict and why the Bolsheviks were able to assume control of the national Revolution. Every aspect of the collapse is scrutinized, from the absolutist tradition inherited by Nicholas II to the estrangement of the intelligentsia, from the peasant masses, whose only aims were peace and land. The principals are strikingly portrayed—Tsar Nicholas, Tsaritsa Alexandra, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich, and Rasputin—as are the breakdown of the ministerial bureaucracy, the impotence of the Duma and Union of Zemstvos, and the colossal losses of the army. This richly documented account of the Provisional Government’s failure to meet the nation’s Revolutionary goals and of the Bolsheviks’ spectacular success in formulating and giving voice to Russian aspirations is basic to an understanding of the origins of today’s Soviet state.