The Calling of History
The Calling of History

Author: Dipesh Chakrabarty

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2015-07-15

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 0226100456

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Dipesh Chakrabarty s eagerly anticipated book examines the politics of history through the careerand in many ways tragic fateof the distinguished historian Sir Jadunath Sarkar (1870-1957). One of the most important scholars in India during the first half of the twentieth century, Sarkar was knighted in 1929 and is still the only Indian historian to have ever been elected an Honorary Fellow of the American Historical Association. He was a universalizing and scientific historian, highly influential during much of his career, but, by the end of his lifetime, he became marginalized by the history establishment in India. History, Chakrabarty writes, sometimes plays truant with historians: by the 1970swhen Chakrabarty himself was a novice historianSarkar was almost completely forgotten. Through Sarkar s story, Chakrabarty explores the role of historical scholarship in India s colonial modernity and throws new light on the ways that postcolonial Indian historians embraced a more partisan idea of truth in the name of democratic and anti-colonial politics."

Call of Empire
Call of Empire

Author: Alexander Charles Baillie

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2017-11-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 0773552073

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From 1760 to 1869, four generations of one family from the Scottish Highlands sought their fortunes in the service of the East India Company. As they worked their way up through the ranks of the empire, the Baillie family left numerous footprints in India and recorded their fascinating experiences in letters sent home to Scotland. Drawing on thorough research of the military, political, and economic events of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and an extensive collection of family letters that depict the lives and personalities of his ancestors, Alexander Charles Baillie brings the history of British India to life. The compelling documents, lost for over a century with many reproduced here, reveal changing race relations and social attitudes, cultural tensions, military and civilian battles, economic pressures, and the rise and decline of the East India Company. The book focuses especially on two members of the family – William of Dunain, a military officer, and John of Leys, a civil servant – whose numerous adventures and misadventures impart provocative clues about the workings of the empire and the daily lives of its most influential figures. An exciting, invaluable, and personalized glimpse into the past of India, Scotland, and the East India Company, Call of Empire will appeal to genealogy enthusiasts and social and global historians.

The Underworld Empire
The Underworld Empire

Author: James A. Grosse

Publisher: LifeRich Publishing

Published: 2021-09-22

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1489737952

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The Underworld Empire is an action packed suspense fiction novel. James G. Ross is an teenager who made a mistake of stealing from the Italian Mob in Pittsburgh PA. Now they are searching to eliminate him and his friends. James has vowed to protect his friends, he is left with the realization that he would have to become as cunning and ruthless as them to survive. He infiltrated their organization and stategically set his plans in motion. The Mobs highest ranking assassian attemped to kill James but hasitated for one second which cost him his life! James had to gear-up and go to war. He destroyed their private club, killed them and took their money, guns and product. The New York Italian Mob was on their way!

Empire of the Islamic World
Empire of the Islamic World

Author: Robin S. Doak

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1438103174

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This well-written reference resource explores the Islamic Empire's society, culture, and daily life, including architecture and art; astronomy and mathematics; customs, holidays, sports, and foods; government systems; industry and trade; language and literature; military structure and strategy; and mythology and religious beliefs. While Islam, the world's second-largest religion, is the most obvious legacy of the Islamic Empire, the political and scientific contributions are equally formidable. Islamic Empire addresses these and other important connections to our modern world.

Empire of the Battlelord
Empire of the Battlelord

Author: Bradley C. Hawthorne

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2009-05

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 1438972407

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The BattleLord would never truly understand the combination of genetics and cosmic circumstances that had thrust him through the Veil that separates the Light from the Dark Matter Universe. His biological being is subsumed by symbiotic infections, restoring his youth and vitality, repairing a lifetime of damage to his body, rendering him impervious to all but the most horrific of wounds. Discovered by the Dough Boys, his physical makeup is further enhanced by the inclusion of shields, weapons, and data organization devices. These strange beings seek to create a tool from the only being known to be capable of crossing the barrier between the Universes. By utilizing his unique capabilities, he lives entire lifetimes on varied worlds and places throughout the natural universe. With loving guidance from the peoples of these worlds, he acquires the moral convictions that have since guided his every action. Driven to know the why of it all, he confronts the Maker, a being, entity, or machine that has existed since the very beginning of time. Agreeing to accept the Maker's unconditional offer of ultimate knowledge, the BattleLord becomes subjected to a total reformation. He is rebuilt, atom by atom, to form a being that is no longer truly a product of either the Light Matter or the Dark, but a unique combination of both. Armed with the boon of immortality, The BattleLord explores new worlds to ensure the continuation of sentient life throughout the cosmos.

A Memory Called Empire
A Memory Called Empire

Author: Arkady Martine

Publisher: Tor Books

Published: 2019-03-26

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 1250186455

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Winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novel A Locus, and Nebula Award nominee for 2019 A Best Book of 2019: Library Journal, Polygon, Den of Geek An NPR Favorite Book of 2019 A Guardian Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2019 and “Not the Booker Prize” Nominee A Goodreads Biggest SFF Book of 2019 and Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee "A Memory Called Empire perfectly balances action and intrigue with matters of empire and identity. All around brilliant space opera, I absolutely love it."—Ann Leckie, author of Ancillary Justice Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn't an accident—or that Mahit might be next to die, during a time of political instability in the highest echelons of the imperial court. Now, Mahit must discover who is behind the murder, rescue herself, and save her Station from Teixcalaan's unceasing expansion—all while navigating an alien culture that is all too seductive, engaging in intrigues of her own, and hiding a deadly technological secret—one that might spell the end of her Station and her way of life—or rescue it from annihilation. A fascinating space opera debut novel, Arkady Martine's A Memory Called Empire is an interstellar mystery adventure. "The most thrilling ride ever. This book has everything I love."—Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds in the Sky And coming soon, the brilliant sequel, A Desolation Called Peace! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Eighth Empire
Eighth Empire

Author: Andrew Gaeta

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2013-12-30

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1304693252

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All worlds change in due time, and Apyre is at a new breaking point. Either the world will be rid of tyrant Emperor Lucan Catenacci, or he and his military machine will dominate, plummeting the world into a new dark age. The island of Perfekus has been burned to the waters of the Zoid Sea by Lucan's command, and unknowingly separated benevolent ruler Angelo Napolitano from his daughter. Has Lucan tormented the wrong elf, and created his perfect match, or will all of Apyre fall prey to a Lucanian reign?

Empire of Ashes
Empire of Ashes

Author: Damian Shishkin

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2017-05-25

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1525508962

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Fifty years have passed since the Dark Lord was beaten, and little of what once was the Empire of Light remains. Humanity has risen high to take the reins of power in the vacuum left once the Imperial Grand Council, and is relentless in its pursuit to assert human kind as the new dominant force with all who oppose them running in fear. And tops in their list of enemies is the Harbinger himself; Aen. Aen withdrew completely from all life, and though he is mightily hunted, he has hidden in a place so isolated he cannot be found. Here, he obsesses over the promise he made to Iana. His soul broken from his losses, he sees the truth in all that has happened, and all that is beginning to transpire. He has awakened from his slumber and he is angry. A stranger appears, and her very presence threatens to unwind eons of carefully crafted plans. Her mission: seek out Aen, push him to complete this promise to Iana. But to do that, they will uncover secrets old enough to be forgotten by history, and meet races so ancient, they had become myths.

The Roman Empire
The Roman Empire

Author: Frederick William Bussell

Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 959

ISBN-13: 1584770821

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