History

Empire of Guns By:Priya Satia Published on 2018-04-10 by Penguin By a prize-winning young historian, an authoritative work that reframes the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of British empire, and emergence of industrial capitalism by presenting them as inextricable from the gun trade |A fascinating and important glimpse into how violence fueled the industrial revolution, Priya Satia's book stuns with deep scholarship and sparkling prose.|--Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies We have long understood the Industrial Revolution as a triumphant story of innovation and technology. Empire of Guns, a rich and ambitious new book by award-winning historian Priya Satia, upends this conventional wisdom by placing war and Britain's prosperous gun trade at the heart of the Industrial Revolution and the state's imperial expansion. Satia brings to life this bustling industrial society with the story of a scandal: Samuel Galton of Birmingh...

The Monster That Is History By:David Der-Wei Wang Published on 2004-10-04 by Univ of California Press In ancient China a monster called Taowu was known for both its vicious nature and its power to see the past and the future. Over the centuries Taowu underwent many incarnations until it became identifiable with history itself. Since the seventeenth century, fictive accounts of history have accommodated themselves to the monstrous nature of Taowu. Moving effortlessly across the entire twentieth-century literary landscape, David Der-wei Wang delineates the many meanings of Chinese violence and its literary manifestations. Taking into account the campaigns of violence and brutality that have rocked generations of Chinese—often in the name of enlightenment, rationality, and utopian plenitude—this book places its arguments along two related axes: history and representation, modernity and monstrosity. Wang considers modern Chinese history as a complex of geopolitical, ethnic, gendered, and p...

History of Gage County, Nebraska By:Hugh Jackson Dobbs Published on 1918 by This Book was ranked at 10 by Google Books for keyword History. Book ID of History of Gage County, Nebraska's Books is 9noUAAAAYAAJ, Book which was written byHugh Jackson Dobbshave ETAG "/gAjROCq+nI" Book which was published by since 1918 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is and ISBN 10 Code is Reading Mode in Text Status is false and Reading Mode in Image Status is true Book which have "1096 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryGage County (Neb.) This Book was rated by 2 Raters and have average rate at "5.0" This eBook Maturity (Adult Book) status is NOT_MATURE Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is true and in ePub is false Book Preview

South Carolina By:Walter B. Edgar Published on 1998 by Univ of South Carolina Press The authoritative source for the Palmetto State's dramatic history. This Book was ranked at 24 by Google Books for keyword History. Book ID of South Carolina's Books is EFSbwGk2szgC, Book which was written byWalter B. Edgarhave ETAG "TDeprlFw81o" Book which was published by Univ of South Carolina Press since 1998 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9781570032554 and ISBN 10 Code is 1570032556 Reading Mode in Text Status is false and Reading Mode in Image Status is true Book which have "716 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryHistory This Book was rated by 1 Raters and have average rate at "5.0" This eBook Maturity (Adult Book) status is NOT_MATURE Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false Book Preview

A History of Pakistan and Its Origins By:Christophe Jaffrelot Published on 2004-09-28 by Anthem Press 'This book has remarkable potential for infusing Asian themes into academic curriculums...a topic of great interest and importance.' Dr. Abdul Jabbar, |Choice, Education About Asia| 'Jaffrelot and his distinguished team make clear that Musharraf's attitude to the Islamist agenda is fraught with ambiguity and irony.' |International Affairs | | A History of Pakistan and its Origins| is a comprehensive, detailed and fully up-to-date study of one of the most diverse, volatile and strategically significant countries in the world today. Born in turmoil barely half a century ago, Pakistan seems to be in an interminable pursuit of its own identity and at the same time finds itself a pivotal player in world politics. Its short existence has witnessed much: four coups d'etat; the rise of Islam as a power; tensions between ethnic, religious and separatist movements; the Ka...

History of Wayne County, Indiana By: Published on 1884 by This Book was ranked at 28 by Google Books for keyword History. Book ID of History of Wayne County, Indiana's Books is IRYVAAAAYAAJ, Book which was written by have ETAG "ezZxM7s+rrA" Book which was published by since 1884 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is and ISBN 10 Code is Reading Mode in Text Status is false and Reading Mode in Image Status is true Book which have " Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryIndiana This Book was rated by Raters and have average rate at "" This eBook Maturity (Adult Book) status is NOT_MATURE Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is true and in ePub is false Book Preview

Dignity By:Remy Debes Published on 2017 by Oxford University Press In everything from philosophical ethics to legal argument to public activism, it has become commonplace to appeal to the idea of human dignity. In such contexts, the concept of dignity typically signifies something like the fundamental moral status belonging to all humans. Remarkably, however, it is only in the last century that this meaning of the term has become standardized. Before this, dignity was instead a concept associated with social status. Unfortunately, this transformation remains something of a mystery in existing scholarship. Exactly when and why did -dignity- change its meaning? And before this change, was it truly the case that we lacked a conception of human worth akin to the one that -dignity- now represents? In this volume, leading scholars across a range of disciplines attempt to answer such questions by clarifying the presently murky history of -dignity, - from classical Greek thought through the Mi...

Salt By:Mark Kurlansky Published on 2011-03-18 by Vintage Canada From the award-winning and bestselling author of Cod comes the dramatic, human story of a simple substance, an element almost as vital as water, that has created fortunes, provoked revolutions, directed economies and enlivened our recipes. Salt is common, easy to obtain and inexpensive. It is the stuff of kitchens and cooking. Yet trade routes were established, alliances built and empires secured – all for something that filled the oceans, bubbled up from springs, formed crusts in lake beds, and thickly veined a large part of the Earth’s rock fairly close to the surface. From pre-history until just a century ago – when the mysteries of salt were revealed by modern chemistry and geology – no one knew that salt was virtually everywhere. Accordingly, it was one of the most sought-after commodities in human history. Even today, salt is a major industry. Canada, Kurlansky tells us, is the world’s sixth largest salt producer, w...