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Myka Tucker-Abramson
Cartographies of Empire

The road novel is often dismissed as a mundane, nostalgic genre: Jack, Sal, and other tedious white men on the road trying to recapture an authentic youth and American past that never existed. Yet, new ro…

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Towns Between Empires

Towns between Empires contains contributions regarding urban administration and governance in the historical regions that are now in Romania, and that fall under the early modern concept of good governanc…

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Dwelling on the Margins of Empire

This book considers histories of home from the margins, highlighting the perspectives of displaced, colonised, and disenfranchised groups in imperial and settler colonial contexts.

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Michael Gardiner
Empire of Deterrence

A nuclear-extinction unconscious has worked over the last 30 years to 'automate' much political thinking and recuperate it into individualist culture wars that reaffirming the extinction regimesEmpire of …

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A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Empire and Industry

The 19th century in Western culture was a time of both confidence and turbulence. Industrial development produced a growing middle class as well as efficiency, convenience, and innovation across a range o…

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Soon-Tzu Speechley
Malayan Classicism

Presents a significant new way of looking at classical architecture in the Asian colonial context.

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Richard Whatmore
The End of Enlightenment

'A brilliant work of intellectual interpretation by our foremost historian of Enlightenment ideas. Whatmore rescues the Enlightenment from today's circular debates and places it where it belongs: in the p…

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Joseph Sassoon
The Sassoons

A spectacular generational saga of the making (and undoing) of a family dynasty: the riveting untold story of the gilded Jewish Bagdadi Sassoons, who built a vast empire through global finance and trade--…

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Wm Roger Louis
The End of the British Empire in the Middle East, 1952--1971

The quarter century after the end of the Second World War and the transfer of power in India in 1947 marked the slow and turbulent dissolution of the British Empire in the Middle East.Seeking to capture t…

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Anya Parampil
Corporate Coup

Corporate Coup looks at the attempted overthrow of the elected government of Venezuela, an intervention which, despite open backing by the United States, failed spectacularly. In January of 2019, the Trum…

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Amit Prakash
Empire on the Seine

Amit Prakash draws on extensive archival materials to understand the colonial legacy of how minority populations have been policed in twentieth-century Paris, showing how colonial racism was integrated in…

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Bernard Z Keo
Imagining Malaya

A political history of Malaysia that prompts reconsideration of the country's path to independence and nationhood, examining the political trajectory of the Peranakan Chinese-a cosmopolitan minority commu…

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Robert St Clair
Counter-Modernities in Nineteenth-Century French Literature

Counter-Modernities in Nineteenth-Century French Literature explores a counterview of modernity in late nineteenth-century French literature (1848-1891).

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Randa Tawil
Race in Transit

At the turn of the twentieth century, life in Ottoman Syria was upended by European and US colonial and capital expansion. Many people responded by migrating to the United States. In doing so, they steppe…

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Randa Tawil
Race in Transit

At the turn of the twentieth century, life in Ottoman Syria was upended by European and US colonial and capital expansion. Many people responded by migrating to the United States. In doing so, they steppe…

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Matthew Mullane
World Observation

An Incisive Study of a Towering Figure in Modern Japanese Architecture

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Martin Stupich
Ore and Empire

Photography and the history of extraction combine as Marty Stupich's extraordinary images map the 600 year oppression of the lands and people from the Mexican Conquest to the Guggenheims, from deep inside…

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David Petruccelli
A Scourge of Humanity

A Scourge of Humanity explores the origins of Interpol (the International Criminal Police Commission) and modern international criminal law in interwar Central and Eastern Europe. After the First World Wa…

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T J English
The Last Kilo

From true-crime legend T. J. English, the epic, behind-the-scenes saga of "Los Muchachos," one of the most successful cocaine trafficking organizations in American history-a story of glitz, glam…

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Hakan Mertcan
The Alawis of Modern Turkey

The Arab 'Alawis constitute a sizable minority in contemporary Turkey. Yet their history and relationship with the evolving Turkish state has been hitherto under-studied.This book charts the history, iden…

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