History of the Rokat Empire
Author : Jacob Sockness
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 31,8 MB
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ISBN : 1329810473
Author : Jacob Sockness
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 31,8 MB
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ISBN : 1329810473
Author : Jacob Sockness
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 11,7 MB
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ISBN : 1365101452
Author : Douglas R. Burgess Jr.
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 38,14 MB
Release : 2016-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0804798982
In 1859, the S.S. Great Eastern departed from England on her maiden voyage. She was a remarkable wonder of the nineteenth century: an iron city longer than Trafalgar Square, taller than Big Ben's tower, heavier than Westminster Cathedral. Her paddles were the size of Ferris wheels; her decks could hold four thousand passengers bound for America, or ten thousand troops bound for the Raj. Yet she ended her days as a floating carnival before being unceremoniously dismantled in 1889. Steamships like the Great Eastern occupied a singular place in the Victorian mind. Crossing oceans, ferrying tourists and troops alike, they became emblems of nationalism, modernity, and humankind's triumph over the cruel elements. Throughout the nineteenth century, the spectacle of a ship's launch was one of the most recognizable symbols of British social and technological progress. Yet this celebration of the power of the empire masked overconfidence and an almost religious veneration of technology. Equating steam with civilization had catastrophic consequences for subjugated peoples around the world. Engines of Empire tells the story of the complex relationship between Victorians and their wondrous steamships, following famous travelers like Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, and Jules Verne as well as ordinary spectators, tourists, and imperial administrators as they crossed oceans bound for the colonies. Rich with anecdotes and wry humor, it is a fascinating glimpse into a world where an empire felt powerful and anything seemed possible—if there was an engine behind it.
Author : Alexander C.T. Geppert
Publisher : Springer
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 28,82 MB
Release : 2018-04-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 1137369167
Limiting Outer Space propels the historicization of outer space by focusing on the Post-Apollo period. After the moon landings, disillusionment set in. Outer space, no longer considered the inevitable destination of human expansion, lost much of its popular appeal, cultural significance and political urgency. With the rapid waning of the worldwide Apollo frenzy, the optimism of the Space Age gave way to an era of space fatigue and planetized limits. Bringing together the history of European astroculture and American-Soviet spaceflight with scholarship on the 1970s, this cutting-edge volume examines the reconfiguration of space imaginaries from a multiplicity of disciplinary perspectives. Rather than invoking oft-repeated narratives of Cold War rivalry and an escalating Space Race, Limiting Outer Space breaks new ground by exploring a hitherto underrated and understudied decade, the Post-Apollo period.
Author : Jacob Sockness
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 50,69 MB
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ISBN : 132996747X
Author : Jacob Sockness
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 14,57 MB
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ISBN : 1365149463
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Page : 608 pages
File Size : 14,58 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Canada
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Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.
Author : Elisabeth Wesseling
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 23,86 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9027222126
This is a postmodernist history of the historical novel with special attention to the political implications of the postmodernist attitude toward the past. Beginning with the poetics of Sir Walter Scott, Wesseling moves via a global survey of 19th century historical fiction to modernist innovations in the genre. Noting how the self-reflexive strategy enables a novelist to represent an episode from the past alongside the process of gathering and formulating historical knowledge, the author discusses the elaboration of this strategy, introduced by novelists such as Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner, in the work of, among others, Julian Barnes, Jay Cantor, Robert Coover and Graham Swift.Wesseling also shows how postmodernist writers attempt to envisage alternative sequences for historical events. Deliberately distorting historical facts, authors of such uchronian fiction, like Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael R. Read, Salman Rushdie and Gunter Grass, imagine what history looks like from the perspective of the losers, rather than the winners.
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Page : 882 pages
File Size : 21,81 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History, Modern
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Author : Alexander Anievas
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 46,3 MB
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 178348683X
The concept of 'uneven and combined development' was originally coined by Leon Trotsky to theorise Tsarist Russia's distinctive experience of modernity and revolution. But it has re-emerged over the last decade or so as a burgeoning research programme within International Relations (IR) and historical sociology. It has been critically and creatively deployed in two main areas: the provision of a sociological foundation to international theory overcoming the chronic schism between ‘sociological’ and ‘geopolitical’ modes of enquiry; and, relatedly, in superseding prevailing Eurocentric approaches in the social sciences. This volume is the first to provide a sustained reflection on the idea of uneven and combined development as the intellectual basis for a non-Eurocentric social theory of ‘the international’. It does so through a series of empirically rich and theoretically informed analyses of socio-historical change, political transformation, and intersocietal conflict over the longue durée. The volume thereby aims to demonstrate the unique potentials of uneven and combined development in overcoming IR and historical sociology’s shared inability to theorize the interactive and multilinear character of development.