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Free Download Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe by Matthew Gabriele, David M. Perry
English | December 10th, 2024 | ISBN: 0063336677 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 24.04 MB
"This is a serious, meticulous history that will also appeal to Game of Thrones fans, who will discover intriguing parallels between history and fiction." – Booklist

Free Download Flora’s Empire: British Gardens in India (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture) by Eugenia W. Herbert
English | September 21, 2011 | ISBN: 0812243269 | 420 pages | EPUB | 4.62 Mb
Winner of the 2012 J. B. Jackson Book Prize from the Foundation for Landscape Studies

Free Download Paul William Roberts, "Empire of the Soul"
English | 2002 | pages: 447 | ISBN: 0773727388, 1840241888 | PDF | 1,7 mb
Paul William Roberts’s journeys through India span twenty years, and in Empire of the Soul, he creates a dazzling mosaic, by turns tragic and comic, of the subcontinent and its people. From the crumbling palaces of maharajas to the slums of Calcutta; from the ashrams of holy men to a millionaire drug dealer’s heavily guarded fortress on India’s border with China, Roberts captures the lure of this enigmatic land?this empire of the soul. "India is a harsh mistress," he writes. "She seems to appreciate individual sacrifice so little. Yet she has never wanted for lovers…"

Free Download Empire of Purity: The History of Americans’ Global War on Prostitution (Politics and Society in Modern America) by Eva Payne
English | November 12, 2024 | ISBN: 0691256977 | True EPUB | 336 pages | 16.4 MB
How the US crusade against prostitution became a tool of empire

Free Download Timothy Bolton, "The Empire of Cnut the Great: Conquest and the Consolidation of Power in Northern Europe in the Early Eleventh Century"
English | 2008 | pages: 370 | ISBN: 900416670X | PDF | 20,5 mb
The reign of King Cnut the Great (1016-1035) marks a pivotal point in the history of both England and Scandinavia, yet his conquests and his consolidation of power remain under-appreciated and rarely studied. Almost all existing scholarship has been geographically centred on either England or Scandinavia. However, this study, through a series of studies of individual aspects of his rise to power in those regions, seeks to encompass his entire dominion, and cast new light on our understanding of the nature of this political unit and contemporary figures’ conceptions of it. The result is a fresh impression of a number of aspects of Cnut’s rise to power as well as a new interpretation of this ’empire’.

Free Download Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850 (The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History) by Andrew J. Torget
English | August 1, 2018 | ISBN: 1469645564 | 368 pages | PDF | 8.55 Mb
By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while also devastating the lives and villages of Mexicans in Texas. In response, Mexico threw open its northern territories to American farmers in hopes that cotton could bring prosperity to the region. Thousands of Anglo-Americans poured into Texas, but their insistence that slavery accompany them sparked pitched battles across Mexico. An extraordinary alliance of Anglos and Mexicans in Texas came together to defend slavery against abolitionists in the Mexican government, beginning a series of fights that culminated in the Texas Revolution. In the aftermath, Anglo-Americans rebuilt the Texas borderlands into the most unlikely creation: the first fully committed slaveholders’ republic in North America.

Free Download Medicine and Empire: 1600-1960 by Pratik Chakrabarti
English | January 23, 2014 | ISBN: 0230276350 | 280 pages | PDF | 11 Mb
The history of modern medicine is inseparable from the history of imperialism. Medicine and Empire provides an introduction to this shared history – spanning three centuries and covering British, French and Spanish imperial histories in Africa, Asia and America.

Free Download Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History (Studies on War and Genocide) edited by Omer Bartov, A. Dirk Moses
English | June 1, 2008 | ISBN: 1845454529, 1845457196 | True EPUB/PDF | 502 pages | 1/4.3 MB
In 1944, Raphael Lemkin coined the term "genocide" to describe a foreign occupation that destroyed or permanently crippled a subject population. In this tradition, Empire, Colony, Genocide embeds genocide in the epochal geopolitical transformations of the past 500 years: the European colonization of the globe, the rise and fall of the continental land empires, violent decolonization, and the formation of nation states. It thereby challenges the customary focus on twentieth-century mass crimes and shows that genocide and "ethnic cleansing" have been intrinsic to imperial expansion. The complexity of the colonial encounter is reflected in the contrast between the insurgent identities and genocidal strategies that subaltern peoples sometimes developed to expel the occupiers, and those local elites and creole groups that the occupiers sought to co-opt.

Free Download Empire of Poverty: The Moral-Political Economy of the Spanish Empire
by Julia McClure
English | 2025 | ISBN: 0198933878 | 245 Pages | PDF | 3.18 MB

Free Download Cees Heere, "Empire Ascendant: The British World, Race, and the Rise of Japan, 1894-1914"
English | 2020 | pages: 237 | ISBN: 0198837399 | PDF | 2,1 mb
In 1902, the British government concluded a defensive alliance with Japan, a state that had surprised much of the world with its sudden rise to prominence. For the next two decades, the Anglo-Japanese alliance would hold the balance of power in East Asia, shielding Japan as it cemented its regional position, and allowing Britain to concentrate on meeting the German challenge in Europe. Yet it was also a relationship shaped by its contradictions.