Firme, Tom
Summary: "Learn about the history of colonialism throughout the world in this volume of History Summarized. Each volume in this series concisely surveys a major historical event or interrelated series of events or a major cultural, economic, political, or social movement." -- Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 325.32 FIRRao, Nilima
Summary: "1914, Fiji: 25-year-old police sergeant Akal Singh would rather be anywhere but this tropical paradise. After a promising start to his career in his native India and in Hong Kong, he got sent to work in Fiji as punishment for a professional mistake he's too embarrassed to talk about. Lonely and humiliated, Akal longs for the day he can finally solve a big case and win the inspector-general's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAOAndrews, Kehinde
Summary: A damning exploration of the many ways in which the effects and logic of anti-black colonialism continue to inform our modern world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bold type books, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 325.3209 ANDElkins, Caroline
Summary: "Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's twentieth-century empire was the largest empire in human history. For many Britons, it epitomized their nation's cultural superiority, but what legacy did the island nation deliver to the world? Covering more than two hundred years of history, Caroline Elkins reveals an evolutionary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 ELKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 ELKOvery, R. J.
Summary: "Richard Overy sets out in Blood and Ruins to recast the way in which we view the Second World War and its origins and aftermath. He argues that this was the 'great imperial war', a violent end to almost a century of global imperial expansion which reached its peak in the ambitions of Italy, Germany and Japan in the 1930s and early 1940s, before descending into the largest and costliest war in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 OVEKaplan, Robert D.
Summary: "The Greater Middle East, the vast region between the Mediterranean and China encompassing much of the Arab world, parts of northern Africa, and Asia, existed for millennia as the crossroads of empire: Macedonian, Mongol, Ottoman, Russian, British. But with the dissolution of empires in the twentieth century, postcolonial states have struggled to maintain stability in the face of power...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 327.56058 KAPLieven, D. C. B.
Summary: "A dazzling account of the men (and occasional woman) who led the world's empires, a book that probes the essence of leadership and power through the centuries and around the world. From the rise of Sargon of Akkad, who in the third millennium BCE ruled what is now Iraq and Syria, to the collapse of the great European empires in the twentieth century, the empire has been the dominant form of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 352.23 LIELackey, Mercedes
Summary: "The refugees from the Empire have established a thriving city called Haven with the help of the Tayledras and their allies. But the Tayledras have begun a slow withdrawal to the dangerous lands known as the Pelagirs, leaving the humans of Haven to find their own way. But even with Haven settled, the lands around Haven are not without danger. Most of the danger comes in the form of magicians:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC LACYolen, Jane
Summary: A Taino Indian boy on the island of San Salvador recounts the landing of Columbus and his men in 1492.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YOLSummary: A few years from now, Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertô, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their village has literally vanished from online maps and a UFO-shaped drone is seen flying overhead. There are forces that want to expel them from their homes, and soon, in a genre-bending twist, a band of armed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BACKinzer, Stephen
Summary: Recalls the forgotten political debate at the beginning of the twentieth century over America's role in the world, with the country's political and intellectual leaders advocating either imperial expansion or restraint.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 327.73009 KINOrwell, George
Summary: A corrupt Burmese politician uses the powers of his office to win membership in a British club.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace & Co. 1962
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ORWPerkins, John
Summary: John Perkins' job was to convince countries that are strategically important to the United States -- from Indonesia to Panama -- to accept enormous loans for infrastructure development and to make sure that the lucrative projects were contracted to U.S. corportations, such as Halliburton.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 332.042 PERDise, Robert L.
Summary: (THIS IS A SET. Book and DVDs must be checkout together).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2009
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Sanghera, Sathnam
Summary: "In this brilliantly illuminating work exploring the realities and legacies of empire, Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consider to be modern Britain is actually rooted in its imperial past. In prose that is at once both clear-eyed and full of acerbic wit, Sanghera shows how the past is everywhere in the United Kingdom, also drawing critical links to similarities in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941 SANSummary: Set in French Indochina in the 1930s as the Vietnamese begin to rebel against French colonialism. Dramatizes the last years of French rule through the relationship between plantation owner Éliane, French by birth but born and raised in Indochina, and her adopted daughter Camille, an orphaned Annamese princess who becomes a Vietnamese revolutionary and representative at the Geneva Conference...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INDAllitt, Patrick.
Summary: Professor Patrick N. Allitt, Emory University, delivers lectures on the history of the British Empire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2009
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4 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942 RISCall number: DVD 942 RIS PART 1
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Endō, Tatsuya
Summary: "Defiant and vulgar, Princess Kaguya Takenouchi is not the heir to the moon's Silver Court that her mother's retainers had hoped for. But when the empress falls ill during a wave of terrorist attacks, Kaguya resolves to do right by her people and rise to the occasion. Unfortunately, Kaguya's enemies are a step ahead of her, and she ends up ejected from the moon and stranded on the primitive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC BLAKuang, R. F. (Rebecca F.)
Summary: "From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager 2022
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Summary: "By sinking a fleet of Imperial Warships, the Pirate Supreme and their resistance fighters have struck a massive blow against the Emperor. Now allies from across the empire are readying themselves, hoping against hope to bring about the end of the conquerors' rule and the rebirth of the Sea. But trust and truth are hard to come by in this complex world of mermaids, spies, warriors, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TOKSummary: While Progressive leaders showed their distrust of power in their dealings with large corporations at home, they still grasped the growing need for an aggressive national stance in world relations. This program covers the opening of Japan, the acquisition of Alaska and Hawaii, the Open Door Policy in China, the Spanish-American War, and the Boxer Rebellion. The doctrinal struggle between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: On Angel Island, the history is written on the walls. From 1910 until 1943, Chinese immigrants to America passed through Angel Island in San Francisco Bay, the Ellis Island of the West. Unlike other groups, the Chinese were legally discriminated against under an 1882 law called the Chinese Exclusion Act. This program looks at how two women-one an artist, the other a documentary filmmaker-are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The Declaration of Independence stated 'all men are created equal,' but the nation’s slaves were a glaring exception. The colonial slave trade and brutal life for African-Americans on Southern plantations spark the abolition movement and the Underground Railroad. This episode explores the role of Frederick Douglass, and then looks at the impact of the Lincoln-Douglas debates on the westward...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002
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Summary: This film explores the final subjugation of defiant Indian tribes and other holdouts to federal authority in the West. Included in this program are balanced, up-to-date portrayals of many of the most memorable characters from America's past, including George Armstrong Custer, Sitting Bull, Brigham Young, and Chief Joseph.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996