Saltwater Cowboy: The Rise and Fall of a Marijuana Empire
ISBN10:1250051282ISBN13:
In 1979, Wisconsin native Tim McBride hopped into his Mustang and headed south. He was twenty-one, and his best friend had offered him a job working as a crab fisherman in Chokoloskee Island ...
Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism
ISBN10:0674988124ISBN13:
Brilliant, ambitious, and often surprising. A remarkable contribution to the current global debate about Empire and a small masterpiece of research and conceptual reimagining.
William Da ...
The Malayan Emergency: Revolution and Counterinsurgency at the End of Empire (Cambridge Military Histories)
ISBN10:110708010XISBN13:
The Malayan Emergency of 19481960 has been scrutinised for ‘lessons’ about how to win counterinsurgencies from the Vietnam War to twenty-first century Afghanistan. This book brin ...
Empire and Holy War in the Mediterranean: The Galley and Maritime Conflict between the Habsburgs and Ottomans (International Library of Historical Studies)
ISBN10:1848859856ISBN13:
In the century after 1530 the empires of the Habsburgs of Spain and the Ottoman Turks fought a maritime war that seemed destined to lead nowhere:: lasting peace was as unlikely as final triu ...
Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power
ISBN10:0465023290ISBN13:
A bestselling historian shows how the British Empire created the modern world, in a book lauded as “a rattling good tale” (Wall Street Journal) and “popular history at its ...
Empire of Sand: How Britain Shaped the Middle East
ISBN10:1843410532ISBN13:
At the end of the First World War the modern Middle East was created by Britain and France, who carved up the old Ottoman possessions with scant regard for the wishes of those who lived ther ...
Empire Maker: Aleksandr Baranov and Russian Colonial Expansion into Alaska and Northern California (Samuel and Althea Stroum Books xx)
ISBN10:0295994592ISBN13:
A native of northern Russia, Alexander Baranov was a middle-aged merchant trader with no prior experience in the fur trade when, in 1790, he arrived in North America to assume command over R ...
Provincial Democracy: Political Imaginaries at the End of Empire in Twentieth-Century South India
ISBN10:1009339540ISBN13:
Situated within the context of seismic global transformations of the early twentieth centurynamely the two World Wars and the crisis of the imperial orderProvincial Democracy delves into the ...
Empire, Technology and Seapower: Royal Navy crisis in the age of Palmerston (Cass Series: Naval Policy and History) .
By:Howard J. Fuller
Update:2021
ISBN/ASIN:0415370043
This book examines British naval diplomacy from the end of the Crimean War to the American Civil War, showing how the mid-Victorian Royal Navy suffered ...
The Armenians and the Fall of the Ottoman Empire: After Genocide, 1918 1923 .
By:Ari Sekeryan
Update:2021
ISBN/ASIN:1108844014
The Armistice of Mudros was signed on 30 October 1918 and on the morning of 13 November 1918, a mighty fleet of battleships from Britain, France, Italy and ...