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Cinema at the End of Empire : A Politics of Transition in Britain and India / by Jaikumar, Priya, 1967-

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Cinema at the End of Empire : A Politics of Transition in Britain and India / by Jaikumar, Priya, 1967-

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Secular morality and international security American and British decisions about war / by Fanis, Maria

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : a theory of national interest and national identity formation -- In defense of the British empire : Great Britain's national identity of loyal patriotism and the War of 1812 -- In defense of the American republic : the American national identity of neo-Jeffersonian republicanism and liberal commerce -- The American national identity of romantic evangelicalism and the pacific resolution of the Oregon crisis -- Great Britain's national identity of evangelical free trade and the pacific resolution of the Oregon dispute.…”
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Secular morality and international security American and British decisions about war / by Fanis, Maria

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : a theory of national interest and national identity formation -- In defense of the British empire : Great Britain's national identity of loyal patriotism and the War of 1812 -- In defense of the American republic : the American national identity of neo-Jeffersonian republicanism and liberal commerce -- The American national identity of romantic evangelicalism and the pacific resolution of the Oregon crisis -- Great Britain's national identity of evangelical free trade and the pacific resolution of the Oregon dispute.…”
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City of strangers Gulf migration and the Indian community in Bahrain / by Gardner, Andrew, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : structural violence and transnational migration in the Gulf states -- Pearls, oil, and the British Empire : a short history of Bahrain -- Foreign labor in peril : the Indian transnational proletariat -- Strategic transnationalism : the Indian diasporic elite -- The public sphere : social clubs and voluntary associations in the Indian community -- Contested identities, contested positions : English-language newspapers and the public sphere -- The invigorated state : transnationalism, citizen, and state -- Conclusion : Bahrain at the vanguard of change in the Gulf.…”
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City of strangers Gulf migration and the Indian community in Bahrain / by Gardner, Andrew, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : structural violence and transnational migration in the Gulf states -- Pearls, oil, and the British Empire : a short history of Bahrain -- Foreign labor in peril : the Indian transnational proletariat -- Strategic transnationalism : the Indian diasporic elite -- The public sphere : social clubs and voluntary associations in the Indian community -- Contested identities, contested positions : English-language newspapers and the public sphere -- The invigorated state : transnationalism, citizen, and state -- Conclusion : Bahrain at the vanguard of change in the Gulf.…”
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City of Strangers : Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain / by Gardner, Andrew, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : structural violence and transnational migration in the Gulf states -- Pearls, oil, and the British Empire : a short history of Bahrain -- Foreign labor in peril : the Indian transnational proletariat -- Strategic transnationalism : the Indian diasporic elite -- The public sphere : social clubs and voluntary associations in the Indian community -- Contested identities, contested positions : English-language newspapers and the public sphere -- The invigorated state : transnationalism, citizen, and state -- Conclusion : Bahrain at the vanguard of change in the Gulf.…”
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City of Strangers : Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain / by Gardner, Andrew, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : structural violence and transnational migration in the Gulf states -- Pearls, oil, and the British Empire : a short history of Bahrain -- Foreign labor in peril : the Indian transnational proletariat -- Strategic transnationalism : the Indian diasporic elite -- The public sphere : social clubs and voluntary associations in the Indian community -- Contested identities, contested positions : English-language newspapers and the public sphere -- The invigorated state : transnationalism, citizen, and state -- Conclusion : Bahrain at the vanguard of change in the Gulf.…”
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From frontier policy to foreign policy the question of India and the transformation of geopolitics in Qing China / by Mosca, Matthew W.

Table of Contents: “…A wealth of Indias : India in Qing geographic practice, 1644-1755 -- The conquest of Xinjiang and the emergence of "Hindustan," 1756-1790 -- Mapping India : geographic agnosticism in a cartographic context -- Discovering the "Pileng" : British India seen from Tibet, 1789-1800 -- British India and Qing strategic thought in the early nineteenth century -- The discovery of British India on the Chinese coast, 1800-1837 -- The Opium War and the British Empire -- Emergence of a foreign policy : Wei Yuan and the reinterpretation of India in Qing strategic thought.…”
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From frontier policy to foreign policy the question of India and the transformation of geopolitics in Qing China / by Mosca, Matthew W.

Table of Contents: “…A wealth of Indias : India in Qing geographic practice, 1644-1755 -- The conquest of Xinjiang and the emergence of "Hindustan," 1756-1790 -- Mapping India : geographic agnosticism in a cartographic context -- Discovering the "Pileng" : British India seen from Tibet, 1789-1800 -- British India and Qing strategic thought in the early nineteenth century -- The discovery of British India on the Chinese coast, 1800-1837 -- The Opium War and the British Empire -- Emergence of a foreign policy : Wei Yuan and the reinterpretation of India in Qing strategic thought.…”
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Imagination and the contemporary novel by Su, John J.

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Imagination and the contemporary novel by Su, John J.

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December 1941 twelve days that began a world war / by Mawdsley, Evan, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…1 December: Japan, Germany, and the coming world war -- 1 December: the fight to the death in Russia -- 1 December: London, Libya, and the dangers of the Far East -- 1 December: Washington, magic, and the Japanese peril -- 2 December: two doomed battleships in Singapore -- 3 December: the president's secret promise -- 4 December: Hitler and Japan's war of conquest -- 5 December: the lull before two storms -- 6 December: General Zhukov throws in his armies -- 7 December: date of infamy: Japan's undeclared wars in Malaya and Hawaii -- 8 December: the beginning of the end of the British empire -- 9 December: FDR begins the American century -- 10 December: Force 'Z' and the Malayan tragedy -- 11 December: Hitler's war on America -- 12 December: world war and the destruction of the Jews -- Aftermath: the new war and a new world.…”
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December 1941 twelve days that began a world war / by Mawdsley, Evan, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…1 December: Japan, Germany, and the coming world war -- 1 December: the fight to the death in Russia -- 1 December: London, Libya, and the dangers of the Far East -- 1 December: Washington, magic, and the Japanese peril -- 2 December: two doomed battleships in Singapore -- 3 December: the president's secret promise -- 4 December: Hitler and Japan's war of conquest -- 5 December: the lull before two storms -- 6 December: General Zhukov throws in his armies -- 7 December: date of infamy: Japan's undeclared wars in Malaya and Hawaii -- 8 December: the beginning of the end of the British empire -- 9 December: FDR begins the American century -- 10 December: Force 'Z' and the Malayan tragedy -- 11 December: Hitler's war on America -- 12 December: world war and the destruction of the Jews -- Aftermath: the new war and a new world.…”
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The afterlife of Adam Smith : the influence, interpretation and misinterpretation of his economic philosophy, 1760s-2010s / by Farina, William, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Businessmen become revolutionaries (1764/1777) -- A new republic grapples with old issues (1778/1790) -- The british empire makes war against its offspring (1791/1815) -- Almost free labor (1816/1837) -- Might makes right (1838/1850) -- Northern industry tames southern agriculture (1851/1865) -- More competition, more oppression (1866/1877) -- The great american relocation (1878/1890) -- A clumsy foray into colonialism (1891/1901) -- Trustbuster (1901/1913) -- Anglo-american power shift (1914/1921) -- Ascendant consumerism (1922/1928) -- The implosion of ?…”
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The afterlife of Adam Smith : the influence, interpretation and misinterpretation of his economic philosophy, 1760s-2010s / by Farina, William, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Businessmen become revolutionaries (1764/1777) -- A new republic grapples with old issues (1778/1790) -- The british empire makes war against its offspring (1791/1815) -- Almost free labor (1816/1837) -- Might makes right (1838/1850) -- Northern industry tames southern agriculture (1851/1865) -- More competition, more oppression (1866/1877) -- The great american relocation (1878/1890) -- A clumsy foray into colonialism (1891/1901) -- Trustbuster (1901/1913) -- Anglo-american power shift (1914/1921) -- Ascendant consumerism (1922/1928) -- The implosion of ?…”
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Egypt a short history : with a new afterword by the author / by Tignor, Robert L.

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The Irish in the Atlantic world

Table of Contents: “…Murphy -- "From the cabins of Connemara to the kraals of Kaffirland" : Irish nationalists, the British Empire, and the "Boer fight for freedom" / Bruce Nelson -- Kathleen O'Brennan and American identity in the transatlantic Irish Republican movement / Catherine M. …”
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