A Velvet Empire: French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century 0691171831, 9780691171838

A Velvet Empire: French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century 9780691205342

How France's elites used soft power to pursue their imperial ambitions in the nineteenth century After Napoleon�

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The Forms of Informal Empire: Britain, Latin America, and Nineteenth-Century Literature 1421438062, 9781421438061

Spanish colonization of Latin America came to an end in the early nineteenth century as, one by one, countries from Boli

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The Forms of Informal Empire: Britain, Latin America, and Nineteenth-Century Literature 2019036590, 9781421438061, 9781421438078, 9781421438085

An ambitious comparative study of British and Latin American literature produced across a century of economic colonizati

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The Orient of the Boulevards: Exoticism, Empire, and Nineteenth-Century French Theater 9781512806809

Mining rich archival resources of play-texts, censorship reports, critical reviews, and contemporary writings on perform

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Flix Ravaisson: French Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century 9780192654199, 9780192898845

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Empire and mobility in the long nineteenth century 9781526126399

Mobility was central to the construction, maintenance and dissolution of empires. This book reflects on the social, cult

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Taming Cannabis: Drugs and Empire in Nineteenth-Century France 9780228002550

An exploration of the history of cannabis use and prohibition in the French imperial nation-state. Despite having the

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Headless History: Nineteenth-Century French Historiography of the Revolution 9781501737398

She makes use of the personal elements in the narratives as a means of viewing nineteenth-century responses to issues th

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Empire in Asia: A New Global History: The Long Nineteenth Century [2] 9781472596666, 9781472596048, 9781472596062, 9781472596055

Asia was the principle focus of empire-builders from Alexander and Akbar to Chinggis Khan and Qianlong and yet, until no

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English Lessons: The Pedagogy of Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century China 9780822385066

A re-evaluation of British Imperialism in nineteenth-century China from the perspective of postcolonial theory.

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