Climate extremes and the Eastern Turkic Empire in Central Asia
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DOI: 10.1007/s10584-018-2236-9
Abstract: This article analyzes the effect of climate extremes on the historical processes that took place (AD 536, 581, 601, 626, and 679) in the Eastern Turkic Empire (ETE) (AD 534–745) in Central Asia. Climate extremes… read more here.
Keywords: eastern turkic; climate extremes; turkic empire; empire ... See more keywords
The Dutch and the Second British Empire in the Early Nineteenth-Century Indian Ocean World
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DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2018.179
Abstract: During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the British Empire grew through its invasion of Dutch colonies around the Indian Ocean rim. The incursions entwined British and Dutch politics, cultures, and social networks. These developments… read more here.
Keywords: empire; second british; dutch second; british empire ... See more keywords
An Empire For Our Times? A Discussion of Peter Wilson's The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe's History
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DOI: 10.1017/s0008938917000905
Abstract: In the two centuries since its dissolution in 1806, the Holy Roman Empire has usually been viewed as an antiquated relic of the medieval past, a dysfunctional polity that hindered Germany's development into a modern,… read more here.
Keywords: wilson; roman empire; empire; holy roman ... See more keywords
Empire and Tribe in the Afghan Frontier Region: Custom, Conflict and British Strategy in Waziristan until 1947. Hugh Beattie, (London: I.B. Tauris, 2019). Pp. 308. $115.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781848858961
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DOI: 10.1017/s0020743821000246
Abstract: gave imperial consulates a chance to pose as necessary mediators—or eager undertakers. Dying and death, in her treatment, then become at once moments of imperial taxonomy and sites of imperial competition. At times, it was… read more here.
Keywords: empire; tribe afghan; afghan frontier; frontier region ... See more keywords
Thailand. More than rural: Textures of Thailand's agrarian transformation By Jonathan Rigg Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019. Pp. 300. Figures, Notes, Bibliography, Index.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0022463423000140
Abstract: gration as an act of liberation against the despotic Qing Empire. The Chinese were seen as a panacea for labour shortages in the Empire after the ban on slavery. Chapter 3 discusses the ‘stimulated interest’… read more here.
Keywords: empire; thailand rural; rural textures; chinese labour ... See more keywords
Writing Self, Writing Empire: Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary. By Rajeev Kinra. pp. xix, 371. Oakland, University of California Press, 2015.
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DOI: 10.1017/s1356186317000049
Abstract: Over the past decade or so there have been major steps forward in our understanding of Mughal history. Among them were: Ruby Lal’s Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World (Cambridge, 2005), which demonstrates… read more here.
Keywords: mughal; chandar bhan; empire; world ... See more keywords
The English East India Company's Silk Enterprise in Bengal, 1750–1850: Economy, Empire and Business. By Karolina Hutková. pp. 275. Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2019
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DOI: 10.1017/s1356186320000012
Abstract: as both emerged from the disparate web of sovereignties that characterised the early modern period. To view the history of colonialism in India as primarily a lesson about the contemporary relevance of state regulation is… read more here.
Keywords: empire; india company; east india; english east ... See more keywords
American empire: a global history By A. G. Hopkins, Princeton, NJ, and Oxford:Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. xviii + 980. Hardback £30.00, ISBN: 978-0-691-17705-2.
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DOI: 10.1017/s1740022818000256
Abstract: Hopkins’ ambitious book seeks to integrate the history of the global American territorial empire with the scholarly literature on European imperialism.He argues that examining European and American imperial trajectories in tandem reveals far more commonalities… read more here.
Keywords: empire; university press; globalization; history ... See more keywords
Displacing empire: Aphasia, ‘trade’, and histories of empire in an English city
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DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2020.1726905
Abstract: ABSTRACT How does a port city like Bristol present and approach its history as a centre for colonial industries such as sugar and tobacco, and its role as an epicentre of the slave trade during… read more here.
Keywords: britain; empire; city; displacing empire ... See more keywords
Petticoats and pickhandles: suffrage and socialism in gendered resistance to empire and mining capitalism
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DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2020.1770106
Abstract: abstract I recount the story of Mary Fitzgerald, a working-class Irish immigrant whose feminist and socialist identity emerge in the contest with capitalism on the Witwatersrand following the Boer War. Her life story in the… read more here.
Keywords: working class; mining; empire; capitalism ... See more keywords
Return to Vietnam: An Oral History of American and Australian Veterans’ Journeys
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DOI: 10.1080/1031461x.2023.2190496
Abstract: often believing that their colony or dominion was attaining political and economic growth under the umbrella of the almighty British Empire and Commonwealth. Such thinking was particularly easy for white settlers in the dominions, like… read more here.
Keywords: empire; history american; vietnam oral; oral history ... See more keywords