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Routledge Library Editions: World Empires


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The 16 volumes in this set, originally published between 1919 and 1998, draw together research by leading academics in the area of World Empires and provide an examination of related key issues. The books examine French Colonialism, the German Empire, and the Ottoman Empire, as well as the effect European colonialism had in Africa and Asia. This set will be of particular interest to students of world history.

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Routledge Library Editions: World Empires

Routledge Library Editions: World Empires

1st Edition

By Various
May 02, 2018

The 16 volumes in this set, originally published between 1919 and 1998, draw together research by leading academics in the area of World Empires and provide an examination of related key issues. The books examine French Colonialism, the German Empire, and the Ottoman Empire, as well as the effect ...

Armenians in the Service of the Ottoman Empire 1860-1908

Armenians in the Service of the Ottoman Empire: 1860-1908

1st Edition

By Mesrob K. Krikorian
November 14, 2019

First published in 1977. Although hundreds of books have been published on the Armenian question and massacres, very little is known about their services in the cultural, economic and administrative life and development of the Ottoman Empire. This study is an investigation into the contribution by ...

Images of Imperial Rule

Images of Imperial Rule

1st Edition

By Hugh Ridley
November 14, 2019

Originally published in 1983. In the late nineteenth century as the European powers divided the world between themselves and scrambled over Africa, so their writers went with them, recording in fiction, as well as in historical narrative, the events and issues of the colonial expansion. The ...

Revisionism and Empire Socialist Imperialism in Germany, 1897-1914

Revisionism and Empire: Socialist Imperialism in Germany, 1897-1914

1st Edition

By Roger Fletcher
November 14, 2019

First published in 1984. Revisionism or reformism has long been recognised as one of the main intellectual ancestors of democratic socialism, the last survivor of the tradition of Enlightenment progressivism and the only viable alternative to conservatism on the one hand and Marxist-Leninism on the...

Struggle for Empire A Bibliography of the French and Indian War

Struggle for Empire: A Bibliography of the French and Indian War

1st Edition

By James G. Lydon
November 14, 2019

Originally published in 1986. The French and Indian War (Seven Years’ War) occurred in the mid-eighteenth century. The concern of this bibliography is with the North American experience in this war, with excursions into the West Indies to examine collateral events which involved Anglo-Americans ...

The Baltic States and the End of the Soviet Empire

The Baltic States and the End of the Soviet Empire

1st Edition

By Kristian Gerner, Stefan Hedlund
November 14, 2019

First published in 1993. How is it possible for the three tiny Baltic republics to gain their freedom from the Soviet Union, without a single shot being fired or a single stone thrown at the oppressor? The topic of this book is the implosion of the Soviet empire. It tells the parallel stories of ...

The German Empire 1867-1914 And the Unity Movement (Volume Two)

The German Empire 1867-1914: And the Unity Movement (Volume Two)

1st Edition

By William Harbutt Dawson
November 14, 2019

The German Empire, 1867-1914, first published in 1919, represents the most important and comprehensive of William Dawson’s contributions to German history and the understanding of German politics and affairs. This title will be of great interest to students of German and Imperial history....

The Shaping of the French Colonial Empire A Bio-Bibliography of the Careers of Richelieu, Fouquet, and Colbert

The Shaping of the French Colonial Empire: A Bio-Bibliography of the Careers of Richelieu, Fouquet, and Colbert

1st Edition

By Philip P. Boucher
November 14, 2019

This bio-bibliography, first published in 1985, of the colonial "ministries" of Cardinal Richelieu, Nicholas Fouquet and Jean-Baptiste Colbert examines the primary and secondary sources available for a re-evaluation of the formative era of the French overseas empire. This volume will be of great ...

Empire and Commerce in Africa A Study in Economic Imperialism

Empire and Commerce in Africa: A Study in Economic Imperialism

1st Edition

By Leonard Woolf
May 03, 2018

In this title, originally published in 1920, Leonard Woolf traces the history of economic imperialism and explores the relations of Europe and Africa since 1876. This analysis of economic imperialism helped to shape attitudes to colonialism for more than one generation of radicals and socialists, ...

Conquest and Resistance to Colonialism in Africa

Conquest and Resistance to Colonialism in Africa

1st Edition

Edited By Gregory Maddox
May 02, 2018

The articles collected in this study, first published in 1993, concentrates on African struggles to maintain their autonomy. Although the history of interaction between African peoples and those from outside that continent is old, for most of Africa colonial domination by European powers was both ...

France Overseas A Study of Modern Imperialism

France Overseas: A Study of Modern Imperialism

1st Edition

By Herbert Ingram Priestley
May 02, 2018

Originally published in 1938. Upon restoration of peace in 1814, recovery of colonial prestige become one of the leading affairs of the French state. First the Old Colonies were reoccupied, then new areas were sought in the Pacific, Asia, and in Africa. This book examines the growth of France ...

The Colonial Epoch in Africa

The Colonial Epoch in Africa

1st Edition

Edited By Gregory Maddox
May 02, 2018

The articles collected in this study, first published in 1993, concentrates on the transformation and continuities in African societies during the height of the colonial era, and explores the struggles by Africans to find space – socially, politically, or economically – within the confines of ...

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