Kingdom and Colony

Kingdom and Colony PDF Author: Nicholas P. Canny
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Kingdom and Colony

Kingdom and Colony PDF Author: Nicholas P. Canny
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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A Kingdom Strange

A Kingdom Strange PDF Author: James Horn
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465021158
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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In 1587, John White and 117 men, women, and children landed off the coast of North Carolina on Roanoke Island, hoping to carve a colony from fearsome wilderness. A mere month later, facing quickly diminishing supplies and a fierce native population, White sailed back to England in desperation. He persuaded the wealthy Sir Walter Raleigh, the expedition's sponsor, to rescue the imperiled colonists, but by the time White returned with aid the colonists of Roanoke were nowhere to be found. He never saw his friends or family again. In this gripping account based on new archival material, colonial historian James Horn tells for the first time the complete story of what happened to the Roanoke colonists and their descendants. A compellingly original examination of one of the great unsolved mysteries of American history, A Kingdom Strange will be essential reading for anyone interested in our national origins.

From Kingdom to Colony

From Kingdom to Colony PDF Author: Mary Devereux
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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From Kingdom to Colony

From Kingdom to Colony PDF Author: Devereux Mary
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781318947966
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

From Kingdom to Colony

From Kingdom to Colony PDF Author: Mary Devereux
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040752652
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 429

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Tensions of Empire

Tensions of Empire PDF Author: Frederick Cooper
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520206052
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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"Carrying the inquiry into zones previous itineraries have typically avoided—the creation of races, sexual relations, invention of tradition, and regional rulers' strategies for dealing with the conquerors—the book brings out features of European expansion and contraction we have not seen well before."—Charles Tilly, The New School for Social Research "What is important about this book is its commitment to shaping theory through the careful interpretation of grounded, empirically-based historical and ethnographic studies. . . . By far the best collection I have seen on the subject."—Sherry B. Ortner, Columbia University

Cities of Empire

Cities of Empire PDF Author: Tristram Hunt
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805093087
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 540

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"Originally published in the U.K. in 2014 under the title Ten cities that made an empire, by Allen Lane, London."

Kingdom and Colony

Kingdom and Colony PDF Author: Nicholas Patrick Canny
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ISBN: 9780608008103
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 159

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English Colonization and Empire

English Colonization and Empire PDF Author: Alfred Caldecott
Publisher: New York Scribner 1891.
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Category : British Empire History
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Islanded

Islanded PDF Author: Sujit Sivasundaram
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022603836X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381

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How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Answers to this question usually start in northern India, neglecting the dramatic events that marked Britain’s contemporaneous subjugation of the island of Sri Lanka. In Islanded, Sujit Sivasundaram reconsiders the arrival of British rule in South Asia as a dynamic and unfinished process of territorialization and state building, revealing that the British colonial project was framed by the island’s traditions and maritime placement and built in part on the model they provided. Using palm-leaf manuscripts from Sri Lanka to read the official colonial archive, Sivasundaram tells the story of two sets of islanders in combat and collaboration. He explores how the British organized the process of “islanding”: they aimed to create a separable unit of colonial governance and trade in keeping with conceptions of ethnology, culture, and geography. But rather than serving as a radical rupture, he reveals, islanding recycled traditions the British learned from Kandy, a kingdom in the Sri Lankan highlands whose customs—from strategies of war to views of nature—fascinated the British. Picking up a range of unusual themes, from migration, orientalism, and ethnography to botany, medicine, and education, Islanded is an engaging retelling of the advent of British rule.