Alien Empires
Alien Empires

Author: Neven Lee Gibbs

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-08-07

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1300062509

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"Sam was born an ordinary child and spent the first 40+ years in a near normal life. An accident in a secret underground military base extended his lifespan and put him on a personal course to save Earth from being taken over by an Alien Race. Known as "Joe" to the Shadow rebellion that fought to defeat the Shadow Governments controlled by the Reptilians, Joe finds strange allies on other worlds and his home world that aid him in his quest. Sometimes called "Star Man" of legend by primitive tribes on Earth, Joe visits strange and exotic places on Earth and other planets, meets new and exciting beings and kills some of the more disagreeable ones. Dealing with great sorrow and loss, Joe uses humor and the joy of every moment to hold back despair...often to the consternation of his friends. Includes a spicy Cajun recipe for "How to cook an Alien from the Draconis Star System"."--publisher's website

Alien Empires Ascendant
Alien Empires Ascendant

Author: Neven Gibbs

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-12-02

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1300471646

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"The further story of Sam "Starman" Hoyt, his niece Jan Hoyt and their great GrandFather Jeremiah "Buck" Hoyt the Dragon slaying Cowboy. A tale of adventure, spycraft, Aliens and Apaches, oh yes... Cowboys too. Add a pair of brilliant Nerds, a Warrior Alien, A cute Army Military Police captain, a short stout Cherokee woman and the Pasty Faced Man in Black who loves her leads to a comic and wild ride across North America, a visit to Scotland and Alien planets. As in the first we get to visit Tom and Vacaro in the Plieadies to sample his Purple Pumpking and inventive excursions in brewing alcoholic beverages."--publisher's website

Galactic Empires
Galactic Empires

Author: Neil Clarke

Publisher: Start Publishing LLC

Published: 2017-01-17

Total Pages: 864

ISBN-13: 159780617X

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Neil Clarke, publisher of the award-winning Clarkesworld magazine, presents a collection of thought-provoking and galaxy-spanning array of galactic short science fiction. From E. E. "Doc" Smith’s Lensman, to George Lucas’ Star Wars, the politics and process of Empire have been a major subject of science fiction’s galaxy-spanning fictions. The idiom of the Galactic Empire allows science fiction writers to ask (and answer) questions that are shorn of contemporary political ideologies and allegiances. This simple narrative slight of hand allows readers and writers to see questions and answers from new and different perspectives. The stories in this book do just that. What social, political, and economic issues do the organizing structure of “empire” address? Often the size, shape, and fates of empires are determined not only by individuals, but by geography, natural forces, and technology. As the speed of travel and rates of effective communication increase, so too does the size and reach of an Imperial bureaucracy.Sic itur ad astra—“Thus one journeys to the stars.” At the beginning of the twentieth century, writers such as Kipling and Twain were at the forefront of these kinds of narrative observations, but as the century drew to a close, it was writers like Iain M. Banks who helped make science fiction relevant. That tradition continues today, with award-winning writers like Ann Leckie, whose 2013 debut novel Ancillary Justice hinges upon questions of imperialism and empire. Here then is a diverse collection of stories that asks the questions that science fiction asks best. Empire: How? Why? And to what effect? Table of Contents: - “Winning Peace” by Paul J. McAuley - “Night’s Slow Poison” by Ann Leckie - “All the Painted Stars” by Gwendolyn Clare - “Firstborn” by Brandon Sanderson - “Riding the Crocodile” by Greg Egan - “The Lost Princess Man” by John Barnes - “The Waiting Stars” by Aliette de Bodard - “Alien Archeology” by Neal Asher - “The Muse of Empires Lost” by Paul Berger - “Ghostweight” by Yoon Ha Lee - “A Cold Heart” by Tobias S. Buckell - “The Colonel Returns to the Stars” by Robert Silverberg - “The Impossibles” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch - “Utriusque Cosmi” by Robert Charles Wilson - “Section Seven” by John G. Hemry - “The Invisible Empire of Ascending Light” by Ken Scholes - “The Man with the Golden Balloon” by Robert Reed - “Looking Through Lace” by Ruth Nestvold - “A Letter from the Emperor” by Steve Rasnic Tem - “The Wayfarer’s Advice” by Melinda M. Snodgrass - “Seven Years from Home” by Naomi Novik - “Verthandi’s Ring” by Ian McDonald

Contact with Alien Civilizations
Contact with Alien Civilizations

Author: Michael Michaud

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-05-05

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 0387686185

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This book describes a wide variety of speculations by many authors about the consequences for humanity of coming into contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. The assumptions underlying those speculations are examined, and some conclusions are drawn. The book emphasizes the consequences of contact rather than the search, and takes account of popular views. As necessary background, the book also includes brief summaries of the history of thinking about extraterrestrial intelligence, searches for life and for signals, contrasting paradigms of how contact might take place, and the paradox that those paradigms allegedly create.

Administrators of Empire
Administrators of Empire

Author: Mark A. Burkholder

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-08-13

Total Pages: 700

ISBN-13: 0429855524

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Published in 1998, the expansion of Europe overseas required the creation of institutions for governing the conquered peoples, as well as the conquerors, their descendants, and later immigrants. As a group, bureaucrats were essential for the preservation of extensive and long-lasting European colonies. This volume looks in particular at the Americas and sets out the differing responses of Portugal, Spain, Britain and France and the systems they elaborated. A notable theme is the conflict between the demands of the centre, and the local pressures, and the extent to which the bureaucrats often came to identify with these.

Converging Empires
Converging Empires

Author: Andrea Geiger

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2022-03-15

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1469667843

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Making a vital contribution to our understanding of North American borderlands history through its examination of the northernmost stretches of the U.S.-Canada border, Andrea Geiger highlights the role that the North Pacific borderlands played in the construction of race and citizenship on both sides of the international border from 1867, when the United States acquired Russia's interests in Alaska, through the end of World War II. Imperial, national, provincial, territorial, reserve, and municipal borders worked together to create a dynamic legal landscape that both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people negotiated in myriad ways as they traversed these borderlands. Adventurers, prospectors, laborers, and settlers from Europe, Canada, the United States, Latin America, and Asia made and remade themselves as they crossed from one jurisdiction to another. Within this broader framework, Geiger pays particular attention to the ways in which Japanese migrants and the Indigenous people who had made this borderlands region their home for millennia—Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian among others—negotiated the web of intersecting boundaries that emerged over time, charting the ways in which they infused these reconfigured national, provincial, and territorial spaces with new meanings.

Empire
Empire

Author: D. C. B. Lieven

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 9780300097269

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Focusing on the Tsarist and Soviet empires of Russia, Lieven reveals the nature and meaning of all empires throughout history. He examines factors that mold the shape of the empires, including geography and culture, and compares the Russian empires with other imperial states, from ancient China and Rome to the present-day United States. Illustrations.

Shadow Empires
Shadow Empires

Author: Thomas J. Barfield

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2023-10-17

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0691181632

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An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern times The world’s first great empires established by the ancient Persians, Chinese, and Romans are well known, but not the empires that emerged on their margins in response to them over the course of 2,500 years. These counterempires or shadow empires, which changed the course of history, include the imperial nomad confederacies that arose in Mongolia and extorted resources from China rather than attempting to conquer it, as well as maritime empires such as ancient Athens that controlled trade without seeking territorial hegemony. In Shadow Empires, Thomas Barfield identifies seven kinds of counterempire and explores their rise, politics, economics, and longevity. What all these counterempires had in common was their interactions with existing empires that created the conditions for their development. When highly successful, these counterempires left the shadows to become the world’s largest empires—for example, those of the medieval Muslim Arabs and of the Mongol heirs of Chinggis Khan. Three former shadow empires—Manchu Qing China, Tsarist Russia, and British India—made this transformation in the late eighteenth century and came to rule most of Eurasia. However, the DNA of their origins endured in their unique ruling strategies. Indeed, world powers still use these strategies today, long after their roots in shadow empires have been forgotten. Looking afresh at the histories of important types of empires that are often ignored, Shadow Empires provides an original account of empire formation from the ancient world to the early modern period.

Connected Empires, Connected Worlds
Connected Empires, Connected Worlds

Author: Robert S.G. Fletcher

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-06-01

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1000596591

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Connected Empires, Connected Worlds: Essays in Honour of John Darwin contains diverse essays on the expansion, experience, and decline of empires. The volume is offered in honour of John Darwin’s contribution to the study of empire and its endings. Written by his former students and colleagues, the book’s chapters discuss topics from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. While each author has contributed according to their expertise, they also reflect on how John’s ideas and approaches continue to stimulate new work in disparate fields. Touching on the experience of empire in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australasia, the authors have engaged with concepts from across Darwin’s writings, including his earlier work on decolonisation, ‘decline’, and ‘the dynamics of territorial expansion’. As such, the work in this volume operates across a number of different scales of analysis: from case studies of transnational communities, state formation and military intervention, to imperial politics, inter-imperial comparison, and global historical frameworks. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.