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 RAOElkins, 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 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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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 LIEYolen, 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 BACOrwell, 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 ORWSummary: 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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Dise, Robert L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2009
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 930 ANCCall number: DVD 930 ANC
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: A team of internationally renowned scholars surveys the major imperial powers of the ancient world, from 1600 B.C. to A.D. 500, and ranging geographically from the ancient Mediterranean to East Asia. The authors investigate the nature of empires--including Egypt, Rome, Babylonia, Persia, India, and China--and their legacies in the modern age. Highlights include fascinating character profiles of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: J. Paul Getty Museum 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 930 GREMurphy, Cullen.
Summary: The rise and fall of ancient Rome has been on American minds from the beginning of our Republic. Depending on who's doing the talking, the history of Rome serves either as a triumphal call to action, or a dire warning of imminent collapse. Esteemed editor and author Murphy ventures past the pundits' rhetoric to draw nuanced lessons about how we might avoid Rome's demise. Working on a canvas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.01 MURFerguson, Niall.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 FERHoyer, Katja
Summary: "Before 1871, Germany was not yet a nation but simply an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable task at hand. How would he bring thirty-nine individual states under the yoke of a single Kaiser? How would he convince proud Prussians, Bavarians, and Rhinelanders to become Germans? Once united, could the young European nation wield enough power to rival the empires of Britain and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.08 HOYSjursen, Daniel A.
Summary: A combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan examines the history of the United States through an alternate lens that emphasizes our history of slavery, indigenous genocide, and militarist imperialism to present a more balanced view of the American story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Truth to Power, an imprint of Steerforth Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 SJUBlumenthal, Max
Summary: THE MANAGEMENT OF SAVAGERY excavates the real story behind America's dealings with the world and shows how the extremist forces that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of America's imperial designs of a national security state. Washington's secret funding of the Mujahedin provoked the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. With guns and money, the United States...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 BLUChomsky, Noam.
Summary: Chomsky analyzes the United States' foreign policy during the latter half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. He predicts that America's pursuit of world domination will have catastrophic consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 327.73 ChoDidion, Joan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.53 DIDGhosh, Amitav
Summary: "The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis frames climate change and the Anthropocene as the culmination of a history that begins with the discovery of the New World and of the sea route to the Indian Ocean. Ghosh makes the case that the political dynamics of climate change today are rooted in the centuries-old geopolitical order that was constructed by Western colonialism. This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.738 GHOBurleigh, Michael
Summary: Describes how the collapse of power in the Philippines, the Congo, and Iran, among other places, contributed to Cold War tensions and explains how this cemented the United States' role as the world's great enforcer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.82 BURClark, Wesley K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2004