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Author: Stephen G. Gross
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 1107112257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA major new interpretation of Nazi influence in southeastern Europe through the concepts of soft power and informal empire.
Author: Stephen G. Gross
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-01-05
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 1316432440
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGerman imperialism in Europe evokes images of military aggression and ethnic cleansing. Yet, even under the Third Reich, Germans deployed more subtle forms of influence that can be called soft power or informal imperialism. Stephen G. Gross examines how, between 1918 and 1941, German businessmen and academics turned their nation - an economic wreck after World War I - into the single largest trading partner with the Balkan states, their primary source for development aid and their diplomatic patron. Building on traditions from the 1890s and working through transnational trade fairs, chambers of commerce, educational exchange programmes and development projects, Germans collaborated with Croatians, Serbians and Romanians to create a continental bloc, and to exclude Jews from commerce. By gaining access to critical resources during a global depression, the proponents of soft power enabled Hitler to militarise the German economy and helped make the Third Reich's territorial conquests after 1939 economically possible.
Author: Pieter C. Emmer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-10-15
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 1108428371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis pioneering history of the Dutch Empire provides a new comprehensive overview of Dutch colonial expansion from a comparative and global perspective. It also offers a fascinating window into the early modern societies of Asia, Africa and the Americas through their interactions.
Author: Yan Sun
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-09-17
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 1108892833
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany scholars perceive ethnic politics in China as an untouchable topic due to lack of data and contentious, even prohibitive, politics. This book fills a gap in the literature, offering a historical-political perspective on China's contemporary ethnic conflict. Yan Sun accumulates research via field trips, local reports, and policy debates to reveal rare knowledge and findings. Her long-time causal chain of explanation reveals the roots of China's contemporary ethnic strife in the centralizing and ethnicizing strategies of its incomplete transition to a nation state—strategies that depart sharply from its historical patterns of diverse and indirect rule. This departure created the institutional dynamics for politicized identities and ethnic mobilization, particularly in the outer regions of Tibet and Xinjiang. In the 21st century, such factors as the demise of socialist tenets and institutions that upheld interethnic solidarity, and the rise of identity politics and developmentalism, have intensified these built-in tensions.
Author: Christopher Prior
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2017-03-01
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1526118556
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor Africans, rank and file colonial officials were the most visible manifestation of British imperial power. But in spite of their importance in administering such vast imperial territories, the attitudes of officials who served between the end of the nineteenth century and the Second World War, as well as what shaped such attitudes, have yet to be examined in any systematic way. In this original and revisionist work, Prior draws upon an enormous array of private and official papers to address some key questions about the colonial services. How did officials’ education and training affect the ways that they engaged with Africa? How did officials relate to one another? How did officials seek to understand Africa and Africans? How did they respond to infrastructural change? How did they deal with anti-colonial nationalism? This work will be of value to students and lecturers alike interested in British, imperial and African history.
Author: Matthew Loar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1108418422
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn interdisciplinary exploration of Roman cultural appropriation, offering new insights into the processes through which Rome made and remade itself.
Author: Rajeshwari Dutt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-03-05
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 1108493424
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReveals how British officials attempted to understand and impose order on northern Belize during the second half of the nineteenth century.
Author: Lindsey A. Mazurek
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-02-24
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1316517012
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt introduces a religious dimension to the study of ethnic identity and globalization in the provinces of the Roman Empire.
Author: David West Brown
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-10-18
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 1108591876
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCombining statistical modelling and archival study, English and Empire investigates how African diasporic, Chinese, and Indian characters have been voiced in British fiction and drama produced between 1768 and 1929. The analysis connects patterns of linguistic representation to changes in the imperial political economy, to evolving language ideologies that circulate in the Anglophone world, and to shifts in sociocultural anxieties that crosscut race and empire. In carrying out his investigation, David West Brown makes the case for a methodological approach that links the distant (quantitative) and close (qualitative) reading of diverse digital artefacts. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the book will appeal to a variety of scholars and students including sociolinguists interested in historical language variation, as well as literary scholars interested in postcolonial studies and the digital humanities.
Author: Roberta Pergher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1108419747
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first exploration of how Mussolini employed population settlement inside the nation and across the empire to strengthen Italian sovereignty.
