The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, Volume I
The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, Volume I

Author: Owen White

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-02

Total Pages: 1080

ISBN-13: 1351882767

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This collection brings together twenty-one articles that explore the diverse impact of modern empires on societies around the world since 1800. Colonial expansion changed the lives of colonised peoples in multiple ways relating to work, the environment, law, health and religion. Yet empire-builders were never working with a blank slate: colonial rule involved not just coercion but also forms of cooperation with elements of local society, while the schemes of the colonisers often led to unexpected outcomes. Covering not only western European nations but also the Ottomans, Russians and Japanese, whose empires are less frequently addressed in collections, this volume provides insight into a crucial aspect of modern world history.

The Rise and Fall of an American Army
The Rise and Fall of an American Army

Author: Shelby L. Stanton

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2007-12-18

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 0307417344

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“THE MEN WHO SACRIFICED FOR THEIR COUNTRY ARE RIGHTFULLY HERALDED . . . This is an honest book–one well worth reading. . . . Stanton has laid his claim to the historian’s ranks by providing his reader with well-documented, interpretive assessments.” –Parameters The Vietnam War remains deep in the nation’s consciousness. It is vital that we know exactly what happened there–and who made it happen. This book provides a complete account of American Army ground combat forces–who they were, how they got to the battlefield, and what they did there. Year by year, battlefield by battlefield, the narrative follows the war in extraordinary, gripping detail. Over the course of the decade, the changes in fighting and in the combat troops themselves are described and documented. The Rise and Fall of an American Army represents the first total battlefield history of Army ground forces in the Vietnam War, containing much previously unreleased archival material. It re-creates the feel of battle with dramatic precision. “Stanton’s writing . . . gives the reader a terrifying graphic description of combat in the many mini-environments of Vietnam.” –The New York Times “[A] MOVING, IMPORTANT BOOK.” –St. Louis Post-Dispatch

WOH'R Chronicles 1
WOH'R Chronicles 1

Author: Harold Doran

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2020-03-25

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 164628478X

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When Herold Ri'an becomes Woh'r and with Old-57, they defend the world Ekara. The woman known as Queen Alissa Moon fights off the armada of Arma to the end. The rest of the story begins in the world of Elioca, and the heroes fight the great Satan and the races of evil across the galaxy, against the races of good.

A Brief History in Thailand
A Brief History in Thailand

Author: Gregg Tyler Milligan

Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing

Published: 2015-09-01

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 1457540746

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This is an all-encompassing collection of seven hand-written journals Milligan meticulously scribed on each journey to S.E. Asia; primarily within the golden country of Thailand. Milligan masterfully weaves his experiences into the connection between nature and humanity --- proving the clear, definitive link within all living things upon this earth and beyond into the vast universe. As with his previous works, Milligan pours out his heart, spilling its entire content and meaning into every word. Amid his many recollections and recantations of events in Thailand; the greater purpose underlying Milligan’s prose is bestowing within readers a true understanding of why they are in this world … Who we are as a species --- the inspiration and culmination of which Milligan found within the Kingdom of Thailand; “A most enchanting country.” Within this collection of journals, Milligan eloquently describes what is possible when showing compassion for one another and nature itself.

From the Land of Shadows
From the Land of Shadows

Author: Khatharya Um

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2015-10-16

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1479876321

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In a century of mass atrocities, the Khmer Rouge regime marked Cambodia with one of the most extreme genocidal instances in human history. What emerged in the aftermath of the regime's collapse in 1979 was a nation fractured by death and dispersal. It is estimated that nearly one-fourth of the country's population perished from hard labor, disease, starvation, and executions. Another half million Cambodians fled their ancestral homeland, with over one hundred thousand finding refuge in America. From the Land of Shadows surveys the Cambodian diaspora and the struggle to understand and make meaning of this historical trauma. Drawing on more than 250 interviews with survivors across the United States as well as in France and Cambodia, Khatharya Um places these accounts in conversation with studies of comparative revolutions, totalitarianism, transnationalism, and memory works to illuminate the pathology of power as well as the impact of auto-genocide on individual and collective healing. Exploring the interstices of home and exile, forgetting and remembering, From the Land of Shadows follows the ways in which Cambodian individuals and communities seek to rebuild connections frayed by time, distance, and politics in the face of this injurious history.