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Roman Empire Expansion Map 264 BC to 180 AD - 24 x36 Poster

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Postcolonial People: The Return from Africa and the Remaking of Portugal (Hardcover)

Having built much of their wealth power and identities on imperial expansion how did the Portuguese and by extension Europeans deal with the end of empire? Postcolonial People explores the processes and consequences of decolonization through the... more

The New Empire : An Interpretation of American Expansion 1860-1898 9780801402418 Used / Pre-owned

CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting / underlining... more

International Bar Association Series Set: Remedies Under Security Interests (Hardcover)

The vast expansion of international trade has greatly increased the incidence of cross-border ownership of assets both tangible and intangible. It is not uncommon for instance for a business to own both physical plant and intellectual property in... more

Americans and International Affairs to 1921 (Hardcover)

Americans and International Affairs to 1921 offers an interpretation of US diplomatic history that incorporates recent expansions in the field focusing on the construction and contestation of US sovereignty and borders by both official and private... more

Routledge Library Editions: Health Dise Disease Medicine and Empire: Perspectives on Western Medicine and the Experience of European Expansion (Hardcover)

Originally published in 1988 the essays in this book focus primarily on colonial medicine in the British Empire but comparative material on the experience of France and Germany is also included. The authors show how medicine served as an instrument... more

Indo-Burma Frontier and the Making of the Chin Hills: Empire and Resistance (Paperback)

This book examines the British colonial expansion in the so-called unadministered hill tracts of the Indo-Burma frontier and the change of colonial policy from non-intervention to intervention. The book begins with the end of the First Anglo-Burmese... more

SPQR: Warband Combat in the Ancient World

Are you ready to forge your empire? With a lightning-fast and easy to play system SPQR allows you to build a complete warband capable of scouting out enemy armies clashing across borders and conducting raids on farms and villages. Units in SPQR are... more

Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches: Properties of Rent: Community Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi (Hardcover)

We live in cities whose borders have always been subject to expansion. What does such transformation of rural spaces mean for cities and vice-versa? This book looks at the spatial transformation of villages brought into the Delhi s urban fray in the... more

The David J. Weber the New Borderlands History: Converging Empires: Citizens and Subjects in the North Pacific Borderlands 1867-1945 (Hardcover)

Making a vital contribution to our understanding of North American borderlands history through its examination of the northernmost stretches of the U.S.-Canada border Andrea Geiger highlights the role that the North Pacific borderlands played in the... more

Oxford Worlds Classics The Confusions of Young Törless (Paperback)

between the life we live and the life we feel...there is the invisible border like a narrow gate Set in a boarding school in a remote area of the Habsburg Empire at the turn of the last century The Confusions of Young Torless is an intense study of... more

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian In Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border (Paperback)

A comprehensive history of the Sino-Russian border one of the longest and most important land borders in the world The Sino-Russian border once the world s longest land border has received scant attention in histories about the margins of empires.... more

A short history of the expansion of the British Empire 1500-1920 by William Harrison Woodward ... Volume 1921 (1921) [Leatherbound]

Leatherbound edition. Language: English Volume: 1921 Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1921 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint.... more

Studies in the History of Greece and Rom The Shape of the Roman Order (Paperback)

In recent years a long-established view of the Roman Empire during its great age of expansion has been called into question by scholars who contend that this model has made Rome appear too much like a modern state. This is especially true in terms... more

Heritage: Imperial Economic Policy 1917-1939: Studies in Expansion and Protection (Paperback)

This book offers a detailed account based on primary source materials from Britain Canada and Australia of the process by which the Empire settlement programme and the Ottawa Agreements were devised. more

Rational Empires : Institutional Incentives and Imperial Expansion (Paperback)

The nineteenth century marked the high point of imperialism when tsarist Russia expanded to the Pacific and the sun was said never to set on the British Empire. Imperialism remains a perennial issue in international relations today and nowhere is... more

International Studies in Social History: Working in Greece and Turkey: A Comparative Labour History from Empires to Nation-States 1840-1940 (Hardcover)

As was the case in many other countries it was only in the early years of this century that Greek and Turkish labour historians began to systematically look beyond national borders to investigate their intricately interrelated histories. The studies... more

Critical Indigeneities: Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska s Indigenous and Asian Entanglements (Hardcover)

As the enduring last frontier Alaska proves an indispensable context for examining the form and function of American colonialism particularly in the shift from western continental expansion to global empire. In this richly theorized work Juliana Hu... more

Studies on Ethnic Groups in China Empire and Identity in Guizhou: Local Resistance to Qing Expansion (Hardcover)

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804811 This historical investigation describes the Qing imperial authorities attempts to consolidate control over the Zhongjia a non-Han population in eighteenth-century Guizhou a poor remote and... more

The Rise Of The Russian Empire (1900) (Paperback)

The Rise of the Russian Empire is a book written by Hector H. Munro in the year 1900. It is a historical account of the growth and expansion of the Russian Empire from its early beginnings to the end of the nineteenth century. The book covers a wide... more

Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan s Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia 1895-1945 (Paperback)

In Imperial Gateway Seiji Shirane explores the political social and economic significance of colonial Taiwan in the southern expansion of Japan s empire from 1895 to the end of World War II. Challenging understandings of empire that focus on... more

The Geopolitics of the EU Borders: Where Should Expansion Stop?

The Geopolitics of the EU Borders: Where Should Expansion Stop? more

The British empire in the nineteenth century; its progress and expansion at home and abroad comprising a description and history of the British colonies and dependencies. By Edgar

Select Your Preferred Color at No Additional Cost! Explore More Options by Clicking on More Images and Notify Us of Your Choice via Email. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition expertly crafted by the prestigious organization “Rare... more

Contagions of Empire: Scientific Racism Sexuality and Black Military Workers Abroad 1898-1948 (Paperback)

From 1898 onward the expansion of American militarism and empire abroad increasingly relied on black labor even as policy remained inflected both by scientific racism and by fears of contagion. Black men and women were mobilized for service in the... more

Pre-Owned Attila: The Gathering of the Storm (Paperback) 0312598998 9780312598990

AD 441: The Roman Empire though bruised and battered is far from defeated. Though her coffers are empty the Visigoths and the Vandals are settling peacefully within her borders no longer enemies. It is another tribe that will bring down this... more

Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization (Hardcover)

An ambitious revisionist history of naturalization as a creative mechanism for national expansion. Before borders determined who belonged in a country and who did not lawyers and judges devised a legal fiction called naturalization to bypass the... more

Pre-Owned Augustus: The Life of Rome s First Emperor (Paperback) 0812970586 9780812970586

He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome s first emperor Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the... more

The Great War and the Romanians : Notes and Documents on World War I (Paperback)

Written during the First World War this book describes Romania s role in World War I during the critical years of 1916 and 1917. The book analyzes the situation of the Romanians living within the borders of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the time... more

Pre-Owned The Rise and Fall of the Second Largest Empire in History: How Genghis Khan s Mongols Almost Conquered the World Paperback

This book recounts the spectacularly rapid expansion and dramatic decline of the Mongol realm while examining its real widespread and enduring influence on countless communities from the Danube River to the Pacific Ocean. CONDITION – USED: Books... more

The British Empire in the nineteenth century : its progress and expansion at home and abroad : comprising a description and history of the British colonies and dependencies 1897 [L

Select Your Preferred Color at No Additional Cost! Explore More Options by Clicking on More Images and Notify Us of Your Choice via Email. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition expertly crafted by the prestigious organization “Rare... more

Routledge Studies in Modern European His Postwar Continuity and New Challenges in Central Europe 1918-1923: The War That Never Ended Book 86 (Hardcover)

This book presents a multi-layered analysis of the situation in Central Europe after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The new geopolitics emerging from the Versailles order and at the same time ongoing fights for borders considerable war... more

France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization: From Near and Far : A Transnational History of France (Hardcover)

From Near and Far takes a transnational approach to the history of France by considering the many ways in which people and places beyond the conventionally accepted borders of the nation shaped its life. more

The Reach of Rome : A Journey Through the Lands of the Ancient Empire Following a Coin (Hardcover)

In this unconventional and accessible history Italian best-seller Alberto Angela literally follows the money to map the reach and power of the Roman Empire. To see a map of the Roman Empire at the height of its territorial expansion is to be struck... more

Cambridge South Asian Studies Trade and Empire in Western India: 1784-1806 Book 9 (Paperback)

This study examines the influence of commercial interests on the expansion of the British Empire in Western India in the age of Cornwallis and Wellesley. It questions some of the assumptions which have been accepted as explanations of British... more

Seminar Studies Britain and Empire 1880-1945 (Paperback)

Britain and Empire 1880-1945 traces the relationship between Britain and its empire during a period when the two spheres intersected with one another to an unprecedented degree. The story starts with the imperial expansion of the late nineteenth... more

Flourish on the Vine : Swirling Designs to Applique Iqa Founders Award Winner!

Full-size patterns are included for this heirloom-quality quilt inspired by the John 15:5 bible verse I am the vine you are the branches. Graceful vines and lush swag borders were inspired by wrought ironwork and Roman Empire imagery. Make the quilt... more

Pre-Owned New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion 1860-1898 (Paperback) 0801490480 9780801490484

This classic work by the distinguished historian Walter LaFeber presents his widely influential argument that economic causes were the primary forces propelling America to world power in the nineteenth century. Cornell University Press is proud to... more

Pre-Owned Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain Paperback

John Darwin s After Tamerlane a sweeping six-hundred-year history of empires around the globe marked him as a historian of massive erudition and narrative mastery. In Unfinished Empire he marshals his gifts to deliver a monumental one-volume history... more