Empire – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 10

James Grehan

Empire of Manners

It is easy to believe that manners are empty gestures, little more than social artifice or practiced etiquette whose sole purpose is to project civility and facilitate social interaction. But if we look m…

Ghost Of The Machine

Empires Must Fall

Patrick J Mahoney

The Fenian Empire

A bold new exploration of Fenian revolutionary activity across the AmericasIn the aftermath of the American Civil War, the Fenian movement stood at a crossroads. Thousands of demobilized Irish soldiers he…

Alexander B Bick

Minutes of Empire

In September 1645, when the directors of the West India Company gathered for their semi-annual board meeting, they faced the most important crisis in the company's history, one that would determine the fa…

Apurba Chatterjee

An Empire of Images

This book centres on the question of how visuality projected ideologies of the British Indian Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century. How did hierarchies of race, class, and gender come to be formulated an…

John Marriott

Land, Law and Empire

In this innovative exploration of British rule in India, John Marriott tackles one of the most significant and unanswered questions surrounding the East India Company's success. How and when was an Englis…

Darragh Gannon

Conflict, Diaspora, and Empire

From the politics of John Redmond to the political violence of Michael Collins, Irish nationalism in Britain was integral to British assessments of the Irish Question. Far from a 'sideshow' to the revolut…

Apurba Chatterjee

An Empire of Images

How did Britons come to see themselves as fit to govern India? An Empire of Images focuses on the visual arts as central to the making of political legitimacy during the long eighteenth century. Through i…

James M Scott

Empire of Ashes

Over three days in August 1945, a nation once morally opposed to the bombing of civilians killed 120,000 men, women, and children; doomed tens of thousands more to agonizing death in the weeks and months …

Tamara L Bray

Objects of Empire

A comparative, empire-wide study of the ceramics associated with the imperial Inca state, theorizing the role of these highly recognizable vessel forms in legitimizing Inca rule and establishing imperial …

Sathnam Sanghera

Journeys of Empire

This is the story of the British empire for readers aged 9+, told through the monumental journeys that shaped it - by award-winning, bestselling author of Empireland, Empireworld and Stolen History Sathna…

Andrew Pritchard

Empire of Dirt

Empire of Dirt is a true story, more thrilling than fiction.Andrew Pritchard came of age on the fractured streets of post-Windrush London, navigating life as a mixed-race young man amid racial tension, po…

Verity McInnis

Women of Empire

In his Rules for Wife Behavior, Colonel Joseph Whistler summed up his expectations for his new bride: "You will remember you are not in command of anything except the cook." Although their roles…

Joe Bonamassa

Tour De Force: Live In London, Shepherd's Bush Empire 2013

Über die Shepherd’s Bush Empire Show: Joe Bonamassa ist ein Blues-Musiker und das von ganzem Herzen. Den zweiten Abend seiner Tour de Force in London nutze er, um die Highlights seiner wahren Liebe zu per…

Jay Kristoff

Empire of the Damned. lllustrated Special Edition

This special edition ofEmpire of the Damned includes full-colour illustrations by Bon Orthwick, a stunning new cover design, and head and tail bands.'Bloody brilliant'V.E. Schwab'A ripping read'Joe Abercr…

Robert Shields Mevissen

The Danube Empire

In the nineteenth century, changes to the environment, driven by ideology, natural forces, and burgeoning fossil fuel power, shifted the course of the Habsburg Empire. Along the Danube--Europe's second lo…

A. James Hammerton

Love, Class and Empire

Early twentieth-century Persia and the Persian Gulf presented a largely blank slate to the British, best known only as a vital conduit to India and a site of contest - the 'great game' - with the Russian …

S. A. Chakraborty

The Empire of Gold

The final chapter in the bestselling, critically acclaimed Daevabad Trilogy, in which a con-woman and an idealistic djinn prince join forces to save a magical kingdom from a devastating civil war.

Steve Perry

Shadows of the Empire

Shadows of the Empire illuminates the shadowy outlines of a criminal conspiracy that exists in the background of the events in the movies, ruled by a character new to us. Prince Xizor is a mastermind of e…