Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power, Paperback - Niall Ferguson

Reducere. The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to world domination ever achieved. By the eve of World War II, around a quarte...

The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970 - John Darwin

Packed with rare and unpublished images, this is the definitive story of an iconic British brand - Bass.Publisher: Amberley PublishingAuthor(s): Ha...

Reducere. A concise, readable, and novel interpretation of the history of communist states. Sixteen states came to be ruled by communist parties during the 2...

The American Revolution is universally seen as a colossal defeat of the powerful British Empire by colonial rebels. Yet the British emerged from th...

The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global h...

Chris Ogden argues that, as the world capitulates to China's preferred authoritarian order, other world powers are moving to this as a dominant glo...

Subtitled, }History's Age Of Hatred{. A thrilling narrative about the 20th century - one of the most bleak and savage times in human history. The h...

A leading anthropologist of Africa considers that continent's place within an egregiously imbalanced world economic and social order

Reducere. In 1902, the British government concluded a defensive alliance with Japan, a state that had surprised much of the world with its sudden rise to pro...

Reducere. From a bestselling historian, a daringly revisionist history of World War IThe Pity of War makes a simple and provocative argument: the human atroc...

Reducere. Would you believe the environmental movement is a scam? That certain people are using "bad science" and big government to line their own pockets......

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Fei-Ling WangWhat does the rise of China represent, and how should the international community respond? With a holistic rer...

Reissued with a major new chapter on the 2008 financial crisis. A history of the world through the lens of money, indicating the financial stories ...

Niall Ferguson's acclaimed bestseller on the highs and lows of Britain's empireOnce vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britan...

Publisher: Hachette BooksAuthor(s): Justin ScheckNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 151 x 229 x 28Cover type: PaperbackRedescope...

A sweeping, lavishly illustrated one-volume history of the rise of American naval power during World War IIPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s...

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Reducere. "The story of the future is written in the past."-Lord Acton, 1877. Did you know Greek philosopher Plato predicted democracy would degenerate into ...

DescriptionThe first global history of the middle class While the nineteenth century has been described as the golden age of the European bourgeois...

Reducere. A thrillingly panoramic and incredibly timely account of the rise of Islam, from the acclaimed author of Rubicon and Persian Fire. The evolution of...

Description"This book reminds us of what we have in common: the power to create a good life for ourselves and for others, no matter what the world ...

Reducere. Analyzing the rise and subsequent fall of international piracy from the perspective of colonial hinterlands, Mark G. Hanna explores the often overt...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Niall FergusonNumber of pages: 512Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 130 x 197 x 28Cover type: Paperback / so...

Reducere. As China and the U.S. increasingly compete for power in key areas of U.S. influence, great power conflict looms. Yet few studies have looked to the...

During the Age of Revolution, the British Crown responded to crises in its colonies with a heavy hand. Lisa Ford shows how imperial peacekeeping me...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: J. Micah'el Thomas HaysEditor: J. Micah'el Thomas HaysThe same occult group who have been ruling over humanity for thousand...

Tells the story of Britain's scramble to world power in the 18th century and how, through hubris and incompetence, it lost almost everything it had...

Reducere. In this unprecedented look at the culture of American lawyering, Lincoln Caplan shows us Skadden's origins in the white-shoe postwar legal world an...

Reducere. The dollar's status as the world's preeminent currency, together with the U.S. military, has underlain American power since World War II. In a swee...