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The Fall of the Russian Empire
1929
International Affairs
The Fall of the Russian Empire. By FATHER EDMUND J. WALSH. 1929. (London: Williams and Norgate. 8vo. xviii + 357 pp. 16s.) ...
THE writer, an American member of the Society of Jesus, was engaged on relief work in Russia for twenty months in 1922-3. ...
doi:10.2307/3014915
fatcat:6vofce4alfanpkp32npbwhypfe
THE FALL OF THE SPANISH AMERICAN EMPIRE
1952
History: The Journal of the Historical Association
THE FALL OF THE SPANISH AMERICAN EMPIRE
At the time of the Napoleonic invasions of the Spanish peninsula in 1807-8, the Spanish empire in America stretched in unbroken line from California to Cape Horn ...
FALL OF THE SPANISH AMERICAN EMPIRE 217
city of the western hemisphere, larger than any city of Great Britain and Ireland except London and Dublin. ...
doi:10.1111/j.1468-229x.1952.tb00239.x
fatcat:f4zirzk6xbch7bfnyhrrorsl3y
Decline and Fall of the Spanish Empire
1970
Monthly review
the three revolutions of the last quarter of the eighteenth century: the American, the French, and the Haitian. ...
Naipaul, one of Britain's leading men of letters and a native of Trinidad, has woven an intricate tapestry of that island's destiny from its European discovery at the end of the fifteenth century until ...
The Indian shrivelled; the Spaniard in his peripheral empire wilted; Spanish pacification campaigns were emulated by the English, the French, and the Dutch. ...
doi:10.14452/mr-022-06-1970-10_4
fatcat:tdpb2gk3kzg7jefb2clz7hcwpq
2. The First Decades of English American Settlement, 1607–1639
[chapter]
2021
The Currency of Empire
There was no set pre ce dent yet for running the nascent empire. ...
After about a quarter century of delay and false starts, the En glish American proj ect fi nally achieved some permanence at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607. ...
At no point, however, did this belie the presence of a central princi ple behind the formation of this empire. ...
doi:10.1515/9781501755781-003
fatcat:g55zaiygkzg4rhxcr53admqjze
Vilcabamba and the Fall of the Inca Empire
[chapter]
2016
Voices from Vilcabamba: Accounts Chronicling the Fall of the Inca Empire
There are many insightful books describing the collapse of the Inca Empire from the arrival of the first Europeans to the invasion of Vilcabamba. ...
The aid of these mestizos was critical to the fall of Vilcabamba, and many personally benefited by the elimination of their cousins. ...
doi:10.5876/9781607324263.c001
fatcat:2ug4ljlf4vgqpcwg7xgspjfttm
Scenes from the Decline and Fall of the American Empire
2007
Forum
At their zenith, empires become haunted by images of their inevitable demise. ...
These are hardly new - the late-Victorian British Empire produced a large number of disaster fictions hardly less spectacular, with H G Wells foremost amongst his contemporary catastrophists - London is ...
SCENES FROM THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE My next passage is from The War in the Air (1908) . ...
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fatcat:licadd2l6rayzaafknqv5wjldy
Place of the Antilles in the Rise and Fall of the Spanish Colonial Empire in the New World
1944
The historian
“Place of the Antilles in the Rise and Fall of the Spanish Colonial Empire in the New World
MH RuTH STANTON
or three hundred years the Caribbean area was the key
+ to the Spanish mainland colonies of the ...
for a great American empire.® These nations soon found that the control of the Caribbean gave access to the gold and glory of America, hence their efforts to monopo- lize it. ...
doi:10.1111/j.1540-6563.1944.tb01062.x
fatcat:2aqgteynkrfrvadv2r66wqnera
Awakening, or Watchfulness: Naum Faiq and Syriac Language Poetry at the Fall of the Ottoman Empire
[chapter]
2020
Arabic and its Alternatives
cause, Faiq himself was forced to flee the Empire. ...
By this point in his life, Faiq had already started his second American journal, Huyodo -in English, Unity -putting into a masthead one of the central tenants of his Assyrian nationalism. ...
Appendix: the Syriac Poems ...
doi:10.1163/9789004423220_008
fatcat:ygwfg3saancdlfz62nddiydlvm
:The Web of Empire: English Cosmopolitans in an Age of Expansion, 1560–1660
2009
American Historical Review
The Web of Empire: English Cosmopolitans in an Age of Expansion 1560 -1660 . New York: Oxford University Press. 2008. Pp. ix + 381. $35.00 hbk. This is a splendid book. ...
While this summary description gives a sense of a book's method, again, it falls short of indicating the full breadth of materials on which the book draws. ...
doi:10.1086/ahr.114.2.477
fatcat:ngg5cfqp3ne5jcdz6wv772jigi
Fall of the German Empire, 1914-1918. Ralph Haswell Lutz , David G. Rempel , Gertrude Rendtorff
1934
The Journal of modern history
478 BOOK REVIEWS
Fall of the German Empire, 1914-1918. Selected and edited by Ratpn Haswe t Lutz, professor of history, Stanford University. Transla- tions by Davin G. ...
The second volume deals with “Social democracy” (Part V), “Economic conditions” (Part VI), and the “Collapse of the Empire” (Part VII). ...
doi:10.1086/236194
fatcat:xojk2amghzbptekds7xyjtnwuu
Mapping the Americanization of English in space and time
2018
PLoS ONE
We find that American English is the dominant form of English outside the UK and that its influence is felt even within the UK borders. ...
In this work, we analyze how the world-wide varieties of written English are evolving. ...
The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. ...
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0197741
pmid:29799872
pmcid:PMC5969760
fatcat:ud462hm57jdifptzyzgqw2lmxm
THE PLACE OF AMERICAN HISTORY IN ENGLISH EDUCATION
1937
History: The Journal of the Historical Association
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THE PLACE OF AMERICAN HISTORY IN ENGLISH EDUCATION
THE question whether American history should have any place in English education is one to which an obvious answer is easy to return ...
in the great textile towns of New
1937] AMERICAN HISTORY IN ENGLISH EDUCATION 335
Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. ...
doi:10.1111/j.1468-229x.1937.tb00706.x
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Communicating Liberty: The Newspapers of the British Empire as a Matrix for the American Revolution
2005
ELH: English literary history
But sanctions after publication continue to be part of English law. ...
The Central Features of the Newspapers of the British Empire In the years before the American Revolution, newspapers were not what liberal Whig histories would later try to make them, a forum for the ...
doi:10.1353/elh.2005.0022
fatcat:kqmiwj7ecfeg5nu7lynohwjloa
Peasants at Work: Forced Cotton Cultivation in Northern Mozambique 1938–1961
[chapter]
2017
The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, Volume I
The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires I 1995, pp. 122-25) . ...
A few years later, his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire would elaborate a similarly despondent view of empire as a type of political organization 'adverse to nature and reason' (Gibbon, 1901, vol. ...
doi:10.4324/9781315237343-11
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Translation, American English and the National Insecurities of Empire1
2010
Translation Today
It argues that such a relationship cannot be understood apart from a critical appreciation of the Americanization, which is to say translation, of English from an imperial into a national language that ...
This essay inquires into the relationship between translation and empire in the United States. ...
Looking back at Antiquity, Nebrija concluded that "language was always the companion of empire; therefore, it follows that together they begin, grow, and flourish and together they fall." ...
doi:10.46623/tt/2010.7.1n2.ar2
fatcat:fjyaxn2by5cebff3gzv22zttbq
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