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UNINA9910464707803321 |
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Autore |
Darwin John |
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Titolo |
The empire project : the rise and fall of the British world-system, 1830-1970 / / John Darwin [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2009 |
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0-511-69974-3 |
1-107-20577-8 |
0-511-63292-4 |
0-511-63171-5 |
1-282-33667-3 |
0-511-63507-9 |
0-511-63412-9 |
9786612336676 |
0-511-63463-3 |
0-511-63552-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiii, 800 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Imperialism - History |
Decolonization - History |
Great Britain Colonies History |
Commonwealth countries History |
Great Britain Civilization |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [789]-794) and index. |
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Introduction : the project of an empire -- Towards 'the sceptre of the world' : the elements of empire in the long nineteenth century -- Victorian origins -- The octopus power -- The commercial republic -- The Britannic experiment -- 'Un-British rule' in 'Anglo-India' -- The weakest link : Britain in South Africa -- The Edwardian transition -- 'The great liner is sinking' : the British world-system in the age of war -- The war for empire, 1914-1919 -- Making imperial peace, 1919-1926 -- Holding the centre, 1927-1937 -- The strategic abyss, 1937-1942 -- The price of survival, 1943-1951 -- The third world power, |
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1951-1959 -- Reluctant retreat, 1959-1968. |
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The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the rise and fall of that great imperial project. The British Empire, he argues, was much more than a group of colonies ruled over by a scattering of British expatriates until eventual independence. It was, above all, a global phenomenon. Its power derived rather less from the assertion of imperial authority than from the fusing together of three different kinds of empire: the settler empire of the 'white dominions'; the commercial empire of the City of London; and 'Greater India' which contributed markets, manpower and military muscle. This unprecedented history charts how this intricate imperial web was first strengthened, then weakened and finally severed on the rollercoaster of global economic, political and geostrategic upheaval on which it rode from beginning to end. |
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UNISA996210561203316 |
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Titolo |
Francis Bacon's The new Atlantis [[electronic resource] ] : new interdisciplinary essays / / edited by Bronwen Price |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2002 |
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1-280-73406-X |
9786610734061 |
1-84779-034-8 |
1-4175-7800-9 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (222 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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English literature - History and criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Series introduction; Acknowledgements; Chronology; 1 Introduction - BRONWEN PRICE; 2 Narrative contexts for Bacon's New Atlantis - PAUL SALZMAN; 3 Persuasions to science: Baconian rhetoric |
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and the New Atlantis - SARAH HUTTON; 4 Ethics and politics in the New Atlantis - DAVID COLCLOUGH; 5 Natural knowledge in the New Atlantis - RICHARD SERJEANTSON; 6 On the miracles in Bacon's New Atlantis - JERRY WEINBERGER; 7 'Books will speak plain'? Colonialism, Jewishness and politics in Bacon's New Atlantis - CLAIRE JOWITT |
8 'Strange things so probably told': gender, sexual difference and knowledge in Bacon's New Atlantis - KATE AUGHTERSON9 Censorship and the institution of knowledge in Bacon's New Atlantis - SIMON WORTHAM; Notes on contributors; Select bibliography; Index |
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This volume of essays on Bacon's ""The New Atlantis"" provides a dialogue between a range of critical perspectives, encompassing cultural history, history of science, literature and politics of early modern culture, incorporating the practical and visionary, utility and utopia. |
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UNINA9910158695303321 |
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Autore |
Ježek Z (Zdeněk), <1932-> |
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Titolo |
Human Monkeypox / / Z. Jezek, F. Fenner |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (X + 142 pages) : 31 figures, 47 tables |
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Collana |
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Monographs in virology ; ; vol. 17 |
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Mpox (Disease) |
Infectious Diseases |
Immunology |
Preventive Medicine |
Public Health |
Virology |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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