Unmaking Imperial Russia: Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Writing of Ukrainian History By Serhii Plokhy
2005 | 614 Pages | ISBN: 0802039375 | PDF | 3 MB
From the eighteenth century until its collapse in 1917, Imperial Russia - as distinct from Muscovite Russia before it and Soviet Russia after it - officially held that the Russian nation consisted of three branches: Great Russian, Little Russian (Ukrainian), and White Russian (Belarusian). After the 1917 revolution, this view was discredited by many leading scholars, politicians, and cultural figures, but none were more intimately involved in the dismantling of the old imperial identity and its historical narrative than the eminent Ukrainian historian Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866-1934).Hrushevsky took an active part in the work of Ukrainian scholarly, cultural, and political organizations and became the first head of the independent Ukrainian state in 1918. Serhii Plokhy's Unmaking Imperial Russia examines Hrushevsky's construction of a new historical paradigm that brought about the nationalization of the Ukrainian past and established Ukrainian history as a separate field of study. By showing how the 'all-Russian' historical paradigm was challenged by the Ukrainian national project, Plokhy provides the indispensable background for understanding the current state of relations between Ukraine and Russia.

Humanism and Empire: The Imperial Ideal in Fourteenth-Century Italy By Alexander Lee
2018 | 464 Pages | ISBN: 0199675155 | PDF | 3 MB
For more than a century, scholars have believed that Italian humanism was predominantly civic in outlook. Often serving in communal government, fourteenth-century humanists like Albertino Mussato and Coluccio Saltuati are said to have derived from their reading of the Latin classics a rhetoricof republican liberty that was opposed to the tyranny of neighbouring signori and of the German emperors.In this ground-breaking study, Alexander Lee challenges this long-held belief. From the death of Frederick II in 1250 to the failure of Rupert of the Palatinate's ill-fated expedition in 1402, Lee argues, the humanists nurtured a consistent and powerful affection for the Holy Roman Empire. Thoughthis was articulated in a variety of different ways, it was nevertheless driven more by political conviction than by cultural concerns. Surrounded by endless conflict--both within and between city-states--the humanists eagerly embraced the Empire as the surest guarantee of peace and liberty, andlost no opportunity to invoke its protection. Indeed, as Lee shows, the most ardent appeals to imperial authority were made not by signorial humanists, but by humanists in the service of communal regimes.The first comprehensive, synoptic study of humanistic ideas of Empire in the period c.1250-1402, this volume offers a radically new interpretation of fourteenth-century political thought, and raises wide-ranging questions about the foundations of modern constitutional ideas. As such, it is essentialreading not just for students of Renaissance Italy and the history of political thought, but for all those interested in understanding the origins of liberty.

Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire By Richard B. Frank
2001 | 512 Pages | ISBN: 0141001461 | PDF | 29 MB
In a riveting narrative that includes information from newly declassified documents, acclaimed historian Richard B. Frank gives a scrupulously detailed explanation of the critical months leading up to the dropping of the atomic bomb. Frank explains how American leaders learned in the summer of 1945 that their alternate strategy to end the war by invasion had been shattered by the massive Japanese buildup on Kyushu, and that intercepted diplomatic documents also revealed the dismal prospects of negotiation. Here also, for the first time, is a comprehensive account of how Japan's leaders were willing to risk complete annihilation to preserve the nation's existing order. Frank's comprehensive account demolishes long-standing myths with the stark realities of this great historical controversy.

The Early Imperial Republic
by Blaakman, Michael A.;Conroy Krutz, Emily;Arista, Noelani;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0812252780 | 353 pages | True PDF EPUB | 33.96 MB

Women Adrift: The Literature of Japan's Imperial Body By Noriko J. Horiguchi
2012 | 242 Pages | ISBN: 0816669783 | PDF | 2 MB
How women figured in the expansion of the national body of the Japanese empire

Decoration and Display in Rome's Imperial Thermae: Messages of Power and their Popular Reception at the Baths of Caracalla by Maryl B. Gensheimer
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0190614781 | 448 pages | PDF | 53 MB
Across the Roman Empire, ubiquitous archaeological, art historical, and literary evidence attests to the significance of bathing for Romans' routines and relationships. Public baths were popularly viewed as necessities of daily life and important social venues. Given the importance of bathing to the Roman style of living, by endowing eight magnificent baths (the so-called imperial thermae) in the city of Rome between 25 BCE - 315 CE, imperial patrons greatly enhanced their popular and political stature.

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