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Purifying Empire: Obscenity and the Politics of Moral Regulation in Britain ...

Deana Heath - History - 2010 - 245 pages
Purifying Empire explores the material, cultural and moral fragmentation of the boundaries of imperial and colonial rule in the British Empire in the late nineteenth and early ...
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Animal Kingdoms

Julie E. Hughes - History - 2013 - 328 pages
Animal Kingdoms reveals the far-reaching cultural, political, and environmental importance of hunting in colonial India. Julie E. Hughes explores how Indian princes relied on ...
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Dams, Displacement, and the Delusion of Development: Cahora Bassa and Its ...

Allen F. Isaacman, Barbara S. Isaacman - History - 2013 - 309 pages
Cahora Bassa Dam on the Zambezi River, built in the early 1970s during the final years of Portuguese rule, was the last major infrastructure project constructed in Africa ...
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Animal Kingdoms

Julie E. Hughes - History - 2013
Animal Kingdoms reveals the far-reaching cultural, political, and environmental importance of hunting in colonial India. Julie E. Hughes explores how Indian princes relied on ...
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Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain: Environment, Identity, and Empire in ...

David A. Bello - History - 2016 - 355 pages
Using Manchu and Chinese sources, this book explores the environmental history of Qing China's Manchurian, Inner Mongolian, and Yunnan borderlands.
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Conceiving the Empire: China and Rome Compared

Fritz-Heiner Mutschler, Achim Mittag - Art - 2008 - 502 pages
"The essays in Conceiving the Empire: China and Rome Compared explore how the idea of 'empire' arose and developed in the two most powerful polities in antiquity. Extending its ...
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The Russian Empire 1450-1801

Nancy Shields Kollmann - History - 2017 - 512 pages
Modern Russian identity and historical experience has been largely shaped by Russia's imperial past: an empire that was founded in the early modern era and endures in large ...
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