Empireworld

Empireworld
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Publisher : PublicAffairs
Total Pages : 243
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ISBN-10 : 9781541705074
ISBN-13 : 1541705076
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Empireworld by : Sathnam Sanghera

Download or read book Empireworld written by Sathnam Sanghera and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author and journalist Sathnam Sanghera explores the global legacy of the British Empire, and the ways it continues to influence economics, politics, and culture around the world. 2.6 billion people are inhabitants of former British colonies. The empire's influence upon the quarter of the planet it occupied, and its gravitational influence upon the world outside it, has been profound: from the spread of Christianity by missionaries to the shaping international law. Even today, 1 in 3 people drive on the left hand side of the road, an artifact of the British empire. Yet Britain's idea of its imperial history and the world's experience of it are two very different things. ­­Following in the footsteps of his bestselling book Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain, Empireworld explores the ways in which British Empire has come to shape the modern world Sanghera visits Barbados, where he uncovers how Caribbean nations are still struggling to emerge from the disadvantages sown by transatlantic slavery. He examines how large charities--like Save the Children and the World Bank--still see the world through the imperial eyes of their colonial founders, and how the political instability of nations, such as Nigeria, for instance, can be traced back to tensions seeded in their colonial foundations. And from the British Empire's role in the transportation of 12.5 million Africans during the Atlantic slave trade, to the 35 million Indians who died due to famine caused by British policy, the British Empire, as Sanghera reveals, was responsible for some of the largest demographic changes in human history. Economic, legal and political systems across the world continue to function along the lines originally drawn by the British Empire, and cultural, sexual, psychological, linguistic, demographic, and educational norms originally established by imperial Britons continue to shape our lives. British Empire may have peaked a century ago, and it may have been mostly dismantled by 1997, but in this major new work, Sathnam Sanghera ultimately shows how the largest empire in world history still exerts influence over planet Earth in all sorts of silent and unsilent ways.

Modernism, Empire, World Literature

Modernism, Empire, World Literature
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 329
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ISBN-10 : 9781108681773
ISBN-13 : 1108681778
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Book Synopsis Modernism, Empire, World Literature by : Joe Cleary

Download or read book Modernism, Empire, World Literature written by Joe Cleary and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After World War I, American, Irish and then Caribbean writers boldly remade the world literary system long dominated by Paris and London. Responding to literary renaissances and social upheavals in their own countries and to the decline of war-devastated Europe, émigré and domestic-based writers produced dazzling new works that challenged London's or Paris's authority to fix and determine literary value. In so doing, they propounded new conceptions of aesthetic accomplishment that were later codified as 'modernism'. However, after World War II, an assertive American literary establishment repurposed literary modernism to boost the cultural prestige of the United States in the Cold War and to contest Soviet conceptions of 'world literature'. Here, in accomplished readings of major works and essays by Henry James, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O'Neill and Derek Walcott, Joe Cleary situates Anglophone modernism in terms of the rise and fall of European and American empires, changing world literary systems, and disputed histories of 'world literature'.

Visitor Experiences and Audiences for the Roman Frontiers

Visitor Experiences and Audiences for the Roman Frontiers
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Publisher : British Archaeological Reports (Oxford) Limited
Total Pages : 204
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ISBN-10 : UGA:32108061428176
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Book Synopsis Visitor Experiences and Audiences for the Roman Frontiers by : Nigel Mills

Download or read book Visitor Experiences and Audiences for the Roman Frontiers written by Nigel Mills and published by British Archaeological Reports (Oxford) Limited. This book was released on 2021 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores developing practice in the public presentation of the World Heritage of the Roman frontiers, written by leading practitioners from the UK, the Netherlands, Germany and Serbia.

Transactions

Transactions
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Total Pages : 508
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105013109561
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Book Synopsis Transactions by : Iron and Steel Institute

Download or read book Transactions written by Iron and Steel Institute and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Medieval and Modern Times

Medieval and Modern Times
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Total Pages : 1018
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105048703800
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Book Synopsis Medieval and Modern Times by : James Harvey Robinson

Download or read book Medieval and Modern Times written by James Harvey Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New Empire Partnership Defence - Commerce - Policy

The New Empire Partnership Defence - Commerce - Policy
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Total Pages : 348
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015038704303
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Book Synopsis The New Empire Partnership Defence - Commerce - Policy by : Percy Angier Hurd

Download or read book The New Empire Partnership Defence - Commerce - Policy written by Percy Angier Hurd and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute

The Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute
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Total Pages : 516
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015068170680
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Book Synopsis The Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute by : Iron and Steel Institute

Download or read book The Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute written by Iron and Steel Institute and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes sect. "A survey of literature on the manufacture and properties of iron and steel, and kindred subjects" (title varies)