Author: Arthur Wilberforce JosePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Unfinished Empire
Author: John DarwinPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 1846146712
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
A both controversial and comprehensive historical analysis of how the British Empire worked, from Wolfson Prize-winning author and historian John Darwin The British Empire shaped the world in countless ways: repopulating continents, carving out nations, imposing its own language, technology and values. For perhaps two centuries its expansion and final collapse were the single largest determinant of historical events, and it remains surrounded by myth, misconception and controversy today. John Darwin's provocative and richly enjoyable book shows how diverse, contradictory and in many ways chaotic the British Empire really was, controlled by interests that were often at loggerheads, and as much driven on by others' weaknesses as by its own strength.
The Growth of the Empire
Author: Arthur Wilberforce JosePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The growth of the Empire
Author: Arthur Wilberforce JosePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Rivers of Empire
Author: Donald WorsterPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195078060
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
The American West, blessed with an abundance of earth and sky but cursed with a scarcity of life's most fundamental need, has long dreamed of harnessing all its rivers to produce unlimited wealth and power. In Rivers of Empire, award-winning historian Donald Worster tells the story of this dream and its outcome. He shows how, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, Mormons were the first attempting to make that dream a reality, damming and diverting rivers to irrigate their land. He follows this intriguing history through the 1930s, when the federal government built hundreds of dams on every major western river, thereby laying the foundation for the cities and farms, money and power of today's West. Yet while these cities have become paradigms of modern American urban centers, and the farms successful high-tech enterprises, Worster reminds us that the costs have been extremely high. Along with the wealth has come massive ecological damage, a redistribution of power to bureaucratic and economic elites, and a class conflict still on the upswing. As a result, the future of this "hydraulic West" is increasingly uncertain, as water continues to be a scarce resource, inadequate to the demand, and declining in quality.
The Empire, Its Value and Its Growth
Author: William Edward Hartpole LeckyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The History of the Growth and Decay of the Othman Empire ...
Author: Dimitrie Cantemir (Voivode of Moldavia)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Turkey
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
The Empire, Its Value and Its Growth;
Author: William Edward Hartpole LeckyPublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781290631570
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
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The Roots of the Modern American Empire
Author: William Appleman WilliamsPublisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
The Growth of the Empire: a Handbook to the History of Greater Britain. Rev.ed
Author: Arthur W. JosePublisher:
ISBN: 9787250008499
Category : Commonwealth countries
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Growth of the Empire
Author: Arthur W 1863-1934 JosePublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781346805375
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
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