In the aftermath of the Second World War Churchill sought to lead Europe into an integrated union but just over seventy years later Britain is poised to vote on leaving the EU. Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon here recounts the fascinating history of Britain s uneasy relatio... Lees meer.

In this book Rodolphe Gasch returns to some of the founding texts of deconstruction to propose a new and broader way of understanding it not as an operation or method to reach an elusive outside or beyond of metaphysics but as something that takes place within it.... Lees meer.

Title. The Monarchies of Continental Europe. The Empire of Russia from the remotest periods to the present time.Publisher. British Library Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world s largest re... Lees meer.

From 1741 until Alaska was sold to the United States in 1867 the Russian empire claimed territory and peoples in North America. In this book Ilya Vinkovetsky examines how Russia governed its only overseas colony illustrating how the colony fit into and diverged from... Lees meer.

How did continental Europeans contribute to the eighteenth-century British Empire. Stephen Conway observes how European settlers soldiers scientists sailors clergymen merchants and technical experts contributed to the British Empire and how they were shaped by i... Lees meer.

Title. The Monarchies of Continental Europe. The Empire of Austria its rise and present power ... Third edition.Publisher. British Library Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world s largest re... Lees meer.

In this stimulating volume which was originally published in 1955 Professor Norman A. Graebner argues that historians have exaggerated the role played by the spirit of manifest destiny in the expansionism of the 1840s. In his view neither the overland migrations nor... Lees meer.

Radical intrepid compendious A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures goes far toward restoring postcolonialism to its historical premises by resituating that imperial project in its much changed and still controversial cartographies. It is Marlow s ma... Lees meer.

Interpreting Russia s nineteenth-century colonial system in Alaska Russian America looks at how the Russians governed the indigenous people of their American colony and the ways in which they drew upon their experience in Siberia and other imperial models. The Russi... Lees meer.