Imperial Ghosts
Imperial Ghosts

Author: Eric Thomson

Publisher: Eric Thomson

Published: 2022-07-05

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1989314783

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Humanity's first empire collapsed centuries ago, but two tiny shards kept the ability to travel across the stars at faster than light speeds: the Wyvern Hegemony and the Republic of Lyonesse. Each considers itself the heir of the old empire and swore an oath of reunification. Yet only one can rule over humanity reunited. As they race to absorb ruined human worlds and rebuild them in their respective image, it is only a matter of time before they encounter the ghosts of what once was. And those ghosts will demand their due.

Ghosts of Empire
Ghosts of Empire

Author: Kwasi Kwarteng

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Published: 2012-02-07

Total Pages: 590

ISBN-13: 1610391217

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Kwasi Kwarteng is the child of parents whose lives were shaped as subjects of the British Empire, first in their native Ghana, then as British immigrants. He brings a unique perspective and impeccable academic credentials to a narrative history of the British Empire, one that avoids sweeping judgmental condemnation and instead sees the Empire for what it was: a series of local fiefdoms administered in varying degrees of competence or brutality by a cast of characters as outsized and eccentric as anything conjured by Gilbert and Sullivan. The truth, as Kwarteng reveals, is that there was no such thing as a model for imperial administration; instead, appointees were schooled in quirky, independent-minded individuality. As a result the Empire was the product not of a grand idea but of often chaotic individual improvisation. The idiosyncrasies of viceroys and soldier-diplomats who ran the colonial enterprise continues to impact the world, from Kashmir to Sudan, Baghdad to Hong Kong.

Ghost Empire
Ghost Empire

Author: Richard Fidler

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-09-05

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1681775778

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"A brilliant reconstruction of the saga of power, glory, and invasion that is the one-thousand year story of Constantinople. A truly marvelous book." —Simon Winchester Ghost Empire is a rare treasure—an utterly captivating blend of the historical and the contemporary, narrated by a master storyteller. The story is a revelation: a beautifully written ode to a lost civilization combined with a warmly observed father-son adventure far from home. In 2014, Richard Fidler and his son Joe made a journey to Istanbul. Fired by Richard's passion for the rich history of the dazzling Byzantine Empire—centered around the legendary Constantinople—we are swept into some of the most extraordinary tales in history. The clash of civilizations, the fall of empires, the rise of Christianity, revenge, lust, murder. Turbulent stories from the past are brought vividly to life at the same time as a father navigates the unfolding changes in his relationship with his son.

Cinemasaurus
Cinemasaurus

Author: Nancy Condee

Publisher: Academic Studies PRess

Published: 2020-04-14

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 1644693747

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Cinemasaurus examines contemporary Russian cinema as a new visual economy, emerging over three decades after the Soviet collapse. Focusing on debates and films exhibited at Russian and US public festivals where the films have premiered, the volume’s contributors—the new generation of US scholars studying Russian cinema—examine four issues of Russia’s transition: (1) its imperial legacy, (2) the emergence of a film market and its new genres, (3) Russia’s uneven integration into European values and hierarchies, (4) the renegotiation of state power vis-à-vis arthouse and independent cinemas. An introductory essay frames each of the four sections, with 90 films total under discussion, concluding with a historical timeline and five interviews of key film-industry figures formative of the historical context.

Ghostmaker
Ghostmaker

Author: Dan Abnett

Publisher: Black Library

Published: 2015-04-01

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9781849708685

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On the jungle world of Monthax, Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt and his Tanith First and Only await the order to advance into the sweltering wilderness and drive the alien eldar from the Imperial planet. As battle approaches, Gaunt walks the lines, raising his men's spirits and rememberin their greatest battles and heroic acts - and the tragedies that have dogged Gaunt's Ghosts from the day of their founding on lost Tanith; The day that Gaunt became known as the Ghostmaker.

A Country of Ghosts
A Country of Ghosts

Author: Margaret Killjoy

Publisher: AK Press

Published: 2021-11-23

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1849354499

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Dimos Horacki is a Borolian journalist and a cynical patriot, his muckraking days behind him. But when his newspaper ships him to the front, he’s embedded in the Imperial Army and the reality of colonial expansion is laid bare before him. His adventures take him from villages and homesteads to the great refugee city of Hronople, built of glass, steel, and stone, all while a war rages around him. The empire fights for coal and iron, but the anarchists of Hron fight for their way of life. A Country of Ghosts is a novel of utopia besieged and a tale that challenges every premise of contemporary society.

Imperial
Imperial

Author: William T. Vollmann

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2009-07-30

Total Pages: 1854

ISBN-13: 1101105151

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From the author of Europe Central, winner of the National Book Award, a journalistic tour de force along the Mexican-American border – a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award For generations of migrant workers, Imperial Country has held the promise of paradise and the reality of hell. It sprawls across a stirring accidental sea, across the deserts, date groves and labor camps of Southeastern California, right across the border into Mexico. In this eye-opening book, William T. Vollmann takes us deep into the heart of this haunted region, exploring polluted rivers and guarded factories and talking with everyone from Mexican migrant workers to border patrolmen. Teeming with patterns, facts, stories, people and hope, this is an epic study of an emblematic region.

Necropolis
Necropolis

Author: Dan Abnett

Publisher: Black Flame

Published: 2003-05

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9781844160068

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On the shattered world of Verghast, Gaunt and his ghosts find themselves caught up in an ancient and deadly civil war as the mighty hive-city, Vervunhive, is beseiged. When treachery from within brings down the city's defences, the Tanith stand on the very brink of defeat.

Island of Ghosts
Island of Ghosts

Author: Gillian Bradshaw

Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

Published: 1999-05-15

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0312870752

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The Roman Empire sends a barbarian warrior to faraway Britain in this historical novel of love and survival in the ancient world. A Sarmatian warrior-prince, Ariantes is uprooted from his home and thrust into the honorless lands of the Romans. The victims of a wartime pact with the emperor Marcus Aurelius, Ariantes and his troop are sent to watch over Hadrian’s Wall. Unsurprisingly, the Sarmatians hate Britain—an Island of Ghosts, filled with pale faces, stone walls, and an uneasy past. Struggling to command his own people to defend a land they despise, Ariantes is accepted by all, but trusted by none. The Romans fear his barbarian background, and his own men fear his gradual Roman assimilation. When Ariantes uncovers a conspiracy sure to damage both his Roman benefactors and his beloved countrymen, as well as put him and the woman he loves in grave danger, he must make a difficult decision—one that will change his own life forever.

Substitute Ghost Hunter
Substitute Ghost Hunter

Author: Ye XiaoZi

Publisher: Funstory

Published: 2020-09-13

Total Pages: 559

ISBN-13: 1636540910

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The same was true for terrifying humor. Different methods used to catch ghosts were the same. My name is Bao Yang, a legend with a rooster and a ghost.