Free Download Padma Rangarajan, "Imperial Babel: Translation, Exoticism, and the Long Nineteenth Century"
English | ISBN: 0823263614 | 2014 | 272 pages | EPUB | 1070 KB
At the heart of every colonial encounter lies an act of translation. Once dismissed as a derivative process, the new cultural turn in translation studies has opened the field to dynamic considerations of the contexts that shape translations and that, in turn, reveal translation's truer function as a locus of power. In Imperial Babel, Padma Rangarajan explores translation's complex role in shaping literary and political relationships between India and Britain.

Free Download Jenny Quinlan, "Imperial Passions: The Porta Aurea"
English | 2018 | pages: 386 | ISBN: 0999690701 | EPUB | 1,2 mb
The Byzantine Empire spirals from greatness to disaster in the eleventh century. Can one woman's thirst for revenge stop its decline?

Free Download William H. F. Altman, "Descriptioninus the Master and the Apotheosis of Imperial Platonism"
English | ISBN: 1666944394 | 2024 | 472 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Unlike other recent studies, Descriptioninus the Master and the Apotheosis of Imperial Platonism is critical of Descriptioninus, and in particular of his version of Platonism, here described as "Imperial." It is in contrast with Plato-a teacher whose dialogues challenge his students to think for themselves-that William H. F. Altman presents Descriptioninus as a master, who uses a seductive form of rhetoric throughout the Enneads to persuade his disciples to ignore his self-contradictions and decontextualized quotations from Plato while instead regarding his spiritual experiences, combined with a gift for the creative synthesis of previous thinkers, as the principal basis of their faithful and uncritical allegiance. While setting Descriptioninus in the context of the Roman Empire and his own critique of the Gnostics, this book grapples throughout with his current and virtually uncritical reception.

Free Download Gary D. Stark, "Banned in Berlin: Literary Censorship in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0857453114, 1845455703 | EPUB | pages: 342 | 2.4 mb
Imperial Germany's governing elite frequently sought to censor literature that threatened established political, social, religious, and moral norms in the name of public peace, order, and security. It claimed and exercised a prerogative to intervene in literary life that was broader than that of its Western neighbors, but still not broad enough to prevent the literary community from challenging and subverting many of the social norms the state was most determined to defend. This study is the first systematic analysis in any language of state censorship of literature and theater in imperial Germany (1871-1918). To assess the role that formal state controls played in German literary and political life during this period, it examines the intent, function, contested legal basis, institutions, and everyday operations of literary censorship as well as its effectiveness and its impact on authors, ✅Publishers, and theater directors.

Free Download Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CMJWQVHL | 2023 | 13 hours and 41 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 391 MB
Author: Gray Brechin
Narrator: Gray Brechin
Imperial San Francisco is the epic saga of how all great cities parasitize their hinterlands for the sake of those elites who own and run them by using the mass media at their command to shape the thought of those who unwittingly serve their interests. Using San Francisco as an example of how cities employ remote control technology to exploit water, energy, natural resources, and labor from an expansive imperium, it takes the listener from ancient Rome to the University of California's role in the creation of nuclear weaponry and its first use.

Free Download The Early Imperial Republic: From the American Revolution to the U.S.-Mexican War (Early American Studies) by Michael A. Blaakman, Emily Conroy-Krutz, Noelani Arista
English | March 21, 2023 | ISBN: 0812252780 | 352 pages | MOBI | 7.21 Mb
Created in a world of empires, the United States was to be something new: an expansive republic proclaiming commitments to liberty and equality but eager to extend its territory and influence. Yet from the beginning, Native powers, free and enslaved Black people, and foreign subjects perceived, interacted with, and resisted the young republic as if it was merely another empire under the sun. Such perspectives have driven scholars to reevaluate the early United States, as the parameters of early American history have expanded in Atlantic, continental, and global directions. If the nation's acquisition of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippine Islands in 1898 traditionally marked its turn toward imperialism, new scholarship suggests the United States was an empire from the moment of its creation.

Free Download Julian Go, "Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US"
English | ISBN: 0197621651 | 2023 | 392 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 23 MB
The police response to protests erupting on America's streets in recent years has made the militarization of policing painfully transparent. Yet, properly demilitarizing the police requires a deeper understanding of its historical development, causes, and social logics. Policing Empires offers a postcolonial historical sociology of police militarization in Britain and the United States to aid that effort. Julian Go tracks when, why, and how British and US police departments have adopted military tactics, tools, and technologies for domestic use. Go reveals that police militarization has occurred since the very founding of modern policing in the nineteenth century into the present, and that it is an effect of the "imperial boomerang."

Free Download Alvita Akiboh, "Imperial Material: National Symbols in the US Colonial Empire"
English | ISBN: 0226828484 | 2023 | 296 pages | PDF | 11 MB
An ambitious history of flags, stamps, and currency-and the role they played in US imperialism.

Free Download The Certification of Insanity: Local Origins and Imperial Consequences
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031427416 | 446 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 18 MB
This book represents the first systematic study of the certification of lunacy in the British Empire. Considering a variety of legal, archival, and published sources, it traces the origins and dissemination of a peculiar method for determining mental unsoundness defined as the 'Victorian system'. Shaped by the dynamics surrounding the clandestine committal of wealthy Londoners in private madhouses, this system featured three distinctive tenets: standardized forms, independent medical examinations, and written facts of insanity. Despite their complexity, Victorian certificates achieved a remarkable success. Not only did they survive in the UK for more than a century, but they also served as a model for the development of mental health laws around the world. By the start of the Second World War, more than seventy colonial and non-colonial jurisdictions adopted the Victorian formula for making lunacy official with some countries still relying on it to this very day. Using case studies from Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific, this book charts the temporal and geographical trajectory of an imperial technology used to determine a person's destiny. Shifting the focus from metropolitan policies to colonial dynamics, and from macro developments to micro histories, it explores the perspectives of families, doctors, and public officials as they began to deal with the delicate business of certification. This book will be of interest to scholars working on mental health policy, the history of medicine, disability studies, and the British Empire.

Free Download Gregory Guroff, Fred V. Carstensen, "Entrepreneurship in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union"
English | 2016 | pages: 384 | ISBN: 0691641382, 0691613621 | PDF | 16,3 mb
This multidisciplinary study of entrepreneurship in Russian society from the sixteenth to the twentieth century demonstrates the crucial influence of central government on economic initiative.