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English | ISBN: 0198713193 | 2019 | 760 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire offers the most comprehensive treatment of the causes, course, and consequences of the ends of empire in the twentieth century. The volume's contributors convey the global reach of decolonization, with chapters analysing the empires of Western Europe, Eastern Europe, China and Japan.

Free Download Piers Brendon, "The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997"
English | 2007 | pages: 640 | ISBN: 0224062220, 0307388417, 0307268292 | EPUB | 1,0 mb
A comprehensive, scholarly and fascinating study of the end of the British Empire.

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English | March 17, 2023 | ISBN: 0197631614, 0197631622 | True EPUB/PDF | 316 pages | 14.3/21.96 MB
The Allure of Empire traces how American ideas about race in the Pacific were made and remade on the imperial stage before World War II. Following the Russo-Japanese War, the United States cultivated an amicable relationship with Japan based on the belief that it was a "progressive" empire akin to its own. Even as the two nations competed for influence in Asia and clashed over immigration issues in the American West, the mutual respect for empire sustained their transpacific cooperation until Pearl Harbor, when both sides disavowed their history of collaboration and cast each other as incompatible enemies.

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English | September 23, 2020 | ISBN: 0228001196, 022800120X | True EPUB/PDF | 384 pages | 2/1 MB
Despite having the highest rates of cannabis use in the continent, France enforces the most repressive laws against the drug in all of Europe. Perhaps surprisingly, France was once the epicentre of a global movement to medicalize cannabis, specifically hashish, in the treatment of disease.

Free Download Miles Taylor, "Southampton: Gateway to the British Empire"
English | ISBN: 1845110323 | 2007 | 256 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Using the lens of empire, Miles Taylor looks at the modern history of Southampton. He examines some of the international celebrities associated with the region such as David Livingstone, Lord Carnarvon and General Gordon, as well as the city itself during times of conflict, from Napoleonic to the world wars, that defined Britain's imperial period.

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English | 2024 | ISBN: 1399072447 | 258 pages | True PDF EPUB | 23.08 MB

Free Download Philosophy in the Roman Empire: Ethics, Politics and Society By Michael B. Trapp
2007 | 300 Pages | ISBN: 0754616185 | PDF | 4 MB
Drawing on unusually broad range of sources for this study of Imperial period philosophical thought, Michael Trapp examines the central issues of personal morality, political theory, and social organization: philosophy as the pursuit of self-improvement and happiness; the conceptualization and management of emotion; attitudes and obligations to others; ideas of the self and personhood; constitutional theory and the ruler; the constituents and working of the good community. Texts and thinkers discussed range from Alexander of Aphrodisias, Aspasius and Alcinous, via Hierocles, Seneca, Musonius, Epictetus, Plutarch and Diogenes of Oenoanda, to Dio Chrysostom, Apuleius, Lucian, Maximus of Tyre, Pythagorean pseudepigrapha, and the Tablet of Cebes. The distinctive doctrines of the individual philosophical schools are outlined, but also the range of choice that collectively they presented to the potential philosophical 'convert', and the contexts in which that choice was encountered. Finally Trapp turns his attention to the status of philosophy itself as an element of the elite culture of the period, and to the ways in which philosophical values may have posed a threat to other prevalent schemes of value; Trapp argues that the idea of 'philosophical opposition', though useful, needs to be substantially modified and extended.

Free Download Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy: A Study of the Asian Opium Trade 1750-1950 By Carl A. Trocki
1999 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0415199182 | PDF | 28 MB
Drug epidemics are clearly not just a peculiar feature of modern life; the opium trade in the nineteenth century tells us a great deal about Asian herion traffic today. In an age when we are increasingly aware of large scale drug use, this book takes a long look at the history of our relationship with mind-altering substances. Engagingly written, with lay readers as much as specialists in mind, this book will be fascinating reading for historians, social scientists, as well as those involved in Asian studies, or economic history.

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by William D. Riddell
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0252045165 | 242 Pages | PDF | 1.2 MB

Free Download Soon-Tzu Speechley, "Malayan Classicism: From the Architecture of Empire to Asian Vernacular"
English | ISBN: 1350360341 | 2023 | 256 pages | EPUB/pdf | 13 MB
Through a broad range of case studies spanning from imperial monuments to rural residences, Malayan Classicism puts forward a fundamentally new understanding of classical architecture in the Asian colonial context.