Edward J. Drea, "Japan's Imperial Army: Its Rise and Fall, 1853-1945 "
English | ISBN: 0700616632 | 2009 | 444 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Popular impressions of the imperial Japanese army still promote images of suicidal banzai charges and fanatical leaders blindly devoted to their emperor. Edward Drea looks well past those stereotypes to unfold the more complex story of how that army came to power and extended its influence at home and abroad to become one of the world's dominant fighting forces.

Rome's Imperial Crisis: The History of the Roman Empire in the 3rd Century after Severus Alexander's Assassination by Charles River Editors
English | February 13, 2019 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B07NQS1L2D | 72 pages | EPUB | 3.12 Mb
*Includes pictures

Imperial Bodies: Empire and Death in Alexandria, Egypt by Shana Minkin
2019 | ISBN: 1503608921 | English | 224 pages | PDF | 2 MB
At the turn of the twentieth century, Alexandria, Egypt, was a bustling transimperial port city, under nominal Ottoman and unofficial British imperial rule. Thousands of European subjects lived, worked, and died there. And when they died, the machinery of empire had to negotiate for space, resources, and control with the nascent national state. Imperial Bodies shows how the mechanisms of death became a tool for exerting both imperial and national governance.

Geographies of an Imperial Power The British World, 1688-1815 by Jeremy Black | 608.47 KB
English | 330 Pages

Title: Geographies of an Imperial Power
Author: Jeremy Black
Year: 2018

Catherine the Great & Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair by Simon Sebag Montefiore
English | August 4th, 2021 | ISBN: 0525431969, 0312278152 | 688 pages | True EPUB | 29.99 MB
From the author of The Romanovs: a vivid account of history's most successful political partnership-as sensual and fiery as it was creative and visionary. Catherine the Great was a woman of notorious passion and imperial ambition. Prince Potemkin-wildly flamboyant and sublimely talented-was the love of her life and her co-ruler.

Homelands and Empires: Indigenous Spaces, Imperial Fictions, and Competition for Territory in Northeastern North America, 1690-1763 By Jeffers Lennox
2017 | 349 Pages | ISBN: 1442645857 | PDF | 49 MB
The period from 1690 to 1763 was a time of intense territorial competition during which Indigenous peoples remained a dominant force. British Nova Scotia and French Acadia were imaginary places that administrators hoped to graft over the ancestral homelands of the Mi'kmaq, Wulstukwiuk, Passamaquoddy, and Abenaki peoples.*Homelands and Empires is the inaugural volume in the University of Toronto Press's Studies in Atlantic Canada History. In this deeply researched and engagingly argued work, Jeffers Lennox reconfigures our general understanding of how Indigenous peoples, imperial forces, and settlers competed for space in northeastern North America before the British conquest in 1763. Lennox's judicious investigation of official correspondence, treaties, newspapers and magazines, diaries, and maps reveals a locally developed system of accommodation that promoted peaceful interactions but enabled violent reprisals when agreements were broken. This outstanding contribution to scholarship on early North America questions the nature and practice of imperial expansion in the face of Indigenous territorial strength.

Nicholas Morrow Williams, "The Fu Genre of Imperial China: Studies in the Rhapsodic Imagination "
English | ISBN: 1641893311 | 2019 | 256 pages | PDF | 17 MB
This is the first book in English to examine the fu, one of China's oldest and culturally central literary forms, from its origins up to the late imperial era. Fu poems are highly revealing sources for understanding the culture, society, and politics of their periods. Though no English term even approximates it, "rhapsody" at least suggests the energy and recitative origins of the fu, which is a poetic form of tireless ambition that has been used for exhaustive descriptions of cities and palaces, as well as private reflections and lamentations, but also for carefully modulated political protest and esoteric ruminations on philosophical subtleties. In this volume, eleven essays by prominent scholars treat the fu from four major perspectives: its original use in court recitation; as a poetic genre with distinctive formal features; as a vehicle of philosophical inquiry; and as a major mode of political expression.

Imperial Visions of Late Byzantium : Manuel II Palaiologos and Rhetoric in Purple
by Florin Leonte
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1474441033 | 345 Pages | PDF | 2.4 MB
Explores a Byzantine emperor's construction of authority with the help of his rhetorical texts

Zoltan Biedermann, "(Dis)connected Empires: Imperial Portugal, Sri Lankan Diplomacy, and the Making of a Habsburg Conquest in Asia"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0198823398 | 272 pages | PDF | 33 MB
(Dis)connected Empires takes the reader on a global journey to explore the triangle formed during the sixteenth century between the Portuguese empire, the empire of Kotte in Sri Lanka, and the Catholic Monarchy of the Spanish Habsburgs. It explores nine decades of connections, cross-cultural

Belle Necropolis: Ghosts of Imperial Vienna By Katherine Arens
2014 | 231 Pages | ISBN: 1433119005 | EPUB | 3 MB
Since coming to public notice through major museum catalogues and the work of Carl Schorske around 1980,fin de sicleVienna has been cast as the final bloom of a dying culture. Yet this assessment is itself a historical construct, deriving from the politics of the twentieth century. This volume argues that Habsburg nostalgia is anything but backward looking: instead, images from this glittering Habsburg past become evidence of a culture's sophisticated sense of how and why history is made, in both official and popular spheres. Including the first translation of an original account of Crown Prince Rudolf's suicide at Mayerling in 1889,Belle Necropolisargues for Austria's continued reuse of its own history to point the way toward the future rather than simply memorializing a past that only exists as living memories of shared stories, not as a truth in itself. Case studies included here range from imperial stereotypes before 1900 through their adaptations in the film1. April 2000and today's musicals, and from the politics of representing Austria since Rebecca West up through Schorske's master narrative of theRingstrasse. Through these studies, Habsburg culture emerges as a culture of commemoration that uses its own past to overcome the limits of a small country seeking a role on the contemporary world stage.