Sahib is a magnificent history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of Empire, making full use of personal accounts from the soldiers who served in the jewel in Britain's Imperial Crown.
Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence.
Guns are an enduring symbol of imperialism, whether they are used to impose social order, create ceremonial spectacle, incite panic, or to inspire confidence.
This book contains all three volumes of Edmund Goldsmid's "e;The History of the Devils of Loudun"e;, which deals with the purported demonic possession, sexual repression, religious fanaticism, and mass hysteria that occurred in the small town of Loudun in 17th-century France.
Después de permanecer inéditos por más de ciento sesenta años, sobrevivir un saqueo, la muerte de su autor y pasar de mano en mano y de casa en casa, los apuntamientos manuscritos de don Jaime Arroyo Hurtado llegan por fin a ser letra impresa.
"e;The Women who Came in the Mayflower"e; is a 1920 work by Annie Russel Marble within which she looks at the female passengers of the 'Mayflower', an English ship that transported early Pilgrims to the New World in 1620.
This enchanting, juicy history takes us from the pineapple's origins in the Amazon rainforests to its first tasting by Columbus in Guadeloupe and its starring role on the royal dinner tables of Europe.
First published in 1901, "e;The Mayflower and Her Log"e; looks in detail into the historic voyage of the 'Mayflower', an English ship that transported early Pilgrims to the New World in 1620.
For decades, Noam Chomsky has been considered one of the most important critics of American's foreign policy in Central and Latin America and yet Turning the Tide is one of his only written works which makes that region its sole focus.
New York Times 'Best Art Books' 2020'Essential' Sunday Times'Brilliantly enraged' - New York Review of Books'A real game-changer' EconomistWalk into any Western museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire.
Vivimos sumergidos en la política, bombardeados por noticias nacionales o internacionales que yuxtaponen guerras, elecciones, crisis económicas, delitos de sangre.
An astonishingly wide-ranging history of Russian nationalism chronicling Russia's yearning for Empire and how it has affected its politics for centuriesIn 2014, Russia annexed Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine.
Between Sea and Sahara is one of the great classics of travel writing about the Middle East - a landmark in the story of Europe's fascination with 'the Orient'.
Esta obra ha mantenido su vigencia pues representa un enorme esfuerzo de sintesis documental y de ordenamiento logico y cronologico, resultado de un proceso de investigacion documental imposible de superar, dada la calidad del material rescatado por Leon Fernandez.
Blue-Water Empire is Robert Holland's magnificent narrative of Britain's military and cultural ties with the Mediterranean Sea, in the style of the epic naval histories of N.
Son numerosos los trabajos acerca de las impresiones que los cronistas europeos tuvieron del Nuevo Mundo, pero todavía no es muy conocida la historia de las mujeres y los hombres que fueron llevados al otro lado del Atlántico durante esta época.
En la actualidad presenciamos un cambio profundo en las concepciones del territorio, las fronteras y los límites –nociones que fueron construidas a finales del siglo XIX y fortalecidas durante la mayor parte del siglo XX–.
Las aportaciones que se han hecho desde perspectivas económicas y estéticas en relación a la interacción entre México y Filipinas son, sin duda, invaluables y constituyen un soporte sustantivo para la comprensión de las relaciones sociales entre ambas naciones.
Hubo un tiempo, entre 1814 y 1820, en que las independencias hispanoamericanas –ese acontecimiento inaugural que solemos dar por sentado como una consecuencia "natural" de las guerras revolucionarias– peligraron y estuvieron literalmente en suspenso, a punto de verse sofocadas por fuerzas contrarrevolucionarias.
'This illuminating, vivid volume is a fitting tribute to the experiences of migration' - Hanif KureishiBetween the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush in 1948 and the passing of the 1971 Immigration Act, half a million people came to the UK from the Caribbean.
'An ambitious, riveting and essential book that has much to teach us about the recent history of this region, and about the human impulse towards populism that continues to shape the world' Ben Rhodes, bestselling author of The World As It Is'A REVOLUTION IS A STRUGGLE TO THE DEATH BETWEEN THE FUTURE AND THE PAST.
Guns are an enduring symbol of imperialism, whether they are used to impose social order, create ceremonial spectacle, incite panic, or to inspire confidence.
'You almost feel you are taking that trek with the party as Robert Macklin cites the obstacles - torrential river crossings, dense bush, the Snowy Mountains and more.
Take a journey to a vanished world with the ADVENTURES IN TIME series - stories so exciting you won't believe they're all true'An invisible tremor ran through the Aztecs on the rooftops, a breathless gasp of excitement.
Winner of the Kekoo Naoroji Award for Mountain Literature 2019An engrossing story of passion and exploration that traces the end of empire and the stirring of a new world order.