The Imagination of the Empire, the State, and the Nation-State

Engines of Empire: Steamships and the Victorian Imagination 9780804798983

The Engines of Empire explores the complex relationship between Victorians and their greatest invention: the steamship.

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The Empire State Building: The Making of a Landmark 9780801471094

The Empire State Building is the landmark book on one of the world’s most notable landmarks. Since its publication in 19

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The Practical Imagination: The German Sciences of State in the Nineteenth Century 0226482421, 9780226482422

Drawing on the work of Foucault and Bourdieu, David Lindenfeld illuminates the practical imagination as it was exhibited

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Minnesota, the Empire State of the New North-west: The Commercial, Manufacturing and Geographical Centre of the American Continent

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Thomas Munro: The Origins of the Colonial State and His Vision of Empire 0195623312, 9780195623314

Thomas Munro was among the most important of British thinker-administrators who shaped imperial rule in India. He was th

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Failure of Empire: Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century A.D. 9780520928534, 9780520233324, 0520928539

Failure of Empire is the first comprehensive biography of the Roman emperor Valens and his troubled reign (a.d. 364-78).

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The Cultural Work of Empire: The Seven Years' War and the Imagining of the Shandean State 9780748631223

This book argues that the Seven Years' War (1756-63) produced an intense historical consciousness within British cu

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Miners and the State in the Ottoman Empire: The Zonguldak Coalfield, 1822-1920 9781782387220

The story of the miners of Zonguldak presents a particularly graphic local lens through which to examine questions that

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The other empire: Metropolis, India and progress in the colonial imagination 9781526137838

This is a detailed study of the various ways in which London and India were imaginatively constructed by British observe

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Policing America's empire: the United States, the Philippines, and the rise of the surveillance state 9780299234140, 9780299234133

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