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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Para leer al Pato Donald	Ariel Dorfmann,Armand Mattelart,Ariel Dorfman,Ariel Dorfman	First published in 1971 in Chile, where the entire third printing was dumped into the ocean by the Chilean Navy and bonfires were held to destroy earlier editions, How to Read Donald Duck reveals the…	OL1003890W
The strange death of the liberal empire	David E. Torrance	Part biography and part study of imperialism, The Strange Death of the Liberal Empire is an examination of Lord Selborne's career as high commissioner for South Africa from 1905 to 1910. David Torran…	OL12011720W
Healing traditions	Karen Elizabeth Flint	Annotation	OL12049285W
Sudan republic	K. D. D. Henderson	A history of Sudan through to independence by the author a senior British administrator in the Sudan for 36 years. Henderson worked in the Sudan Political Service the British Civil Service for Sudan.	OL12101704W
American commodities in an age of empire	Mona Domosh	American Commodities in an Age of Empire is a novel interpretation of the relationship between consumerism, commercialism, and imperialism during the first empire building ear of America in the late …	OL13255710W
FLAGSHIPS OF IMPERIALISM: THE P&O COMPANY AND THE POLITICS OF EMPIRE FROM ITS ORIGINS TO 1867	FREDA HARCOURT	ix, 245 pages ; 24 cm	OL13666066W
Captive Arizona, 1851-1900	Victoria Smith	xxxiii, 255 p., [10] p. of plates : 23 cm	OL13771753W
The rise of militarism in the Progressive Era, 1900-1914	Roger Possner	"The era, from the turn of the century to the beginning of World War I, saw an American attitude shift toward structure, social duty, and middle class manly values. The federal government sponsored m…	OL13781972W
British foreign and imperial policy, 1865-1919	Graham D. Goodlad	British Foreign and Imperial Policy explores Britains role in International Affairs from the age of Gladstone and Disraeli to the end of the First World War, exploring such themes as Britain's involv…	OL14857290W
War, religion and empire	Andrew Phillips	"What are international orders, how are they destroyed, and how can they be defended in the face of violent challenges? Advancing an innovative realist-constructivist account of international order, …	OL15444039W
Materials and Medicine	Pratik Chakrabarti	Medicine was transformed in the eighteenth century. Aligning the trajectories of intellectual and material wealth, this book uncovers how medicine acquired a new materialism as well as new materials …	OL15644068W
Unfamiliar Fishes	Sarah Vowell	From the bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates, comes an examination of Hawaii, the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn. Many think of 1776 as the defining year of American history, …	OL15690936W
Fur, Fortune, and Empire	Eric Jay Dolin	In Fur, Fortune, and Empire, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin chronicles the rise and fall of the fur trade of old, when the rallying cry was "get the furs while they last." Beavers, sea otters, an…	OL15741957W
Crusade	James Carroll	Publisher's description: With the words "this Crusade, this war on terror," George W. Bush defined the purpose of his presidency. And just as promptly, James Carroll-Boston Globe columnist, son of a …	OL15835588W
Target Iran	Scott Ritter	The controversial former United Nations weapons inspector sets his sights on the White House's hyping of Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program. In Target Iran the bestselling author of War on Iraq o…	OL15857375W
Reinstating the Ottomans	Isa Blumı	"This book is inspired by recent scholarship that reexamines the dramatic changes affecting heterogeneous societies in late nineteenth century empires. It expands the analysis of transformation beyon…	OL16001805W
Race for empire	Takashi Fujitani	"Race for Empire offers a profound and challenging reinterpretation of nationalism, racism, and wartime mobilization during the Asia-Pacific war. In parallel case studies--of Japanese Americans mobil…	OL16002155W
American Empire	Harry Turtledove	Harry Turtledove's acclaimed alternate history series began with a single question: What if the South had won the Civil War? Now, seventy years have passed since the first War Between the States. The…	OL16551W
Remaking the British Atlantic	P. J. Marshall	Remaking the British Atlantic focuses on a crucial phase in the history of British-American relations: the first ten years of American Independence. These set the pattern for some years to come. On t…	OL16794106W
Imperiofobia y leyenda negra	María Elvira Roca Barea	María Elvira Roca Barea acomete con rigor en este volumen la cuestión de delimitar las ideas de imperio, leyenda negra e imperiofobia. De esta manera podemos entender qué tienen en común los imperios…	OL17752681W