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In the end, what does the balance sheet of the Empire look like?The story of Empire is central to Britain's national mythology and its sense of place in the world, and essential to an understanding of its changing role as we approach the ...
The vivid and fascinating biography of one of this century's most powerful men: the founder of CBS, William Paley.
Examines the successes and controversies surrounding Paley and CBS and shows how he helped shape America's culture and its view of current events
Fin de siecle concern about empire and expansion found its most durable theoretical expression in J. A. Hobson, Imperialism (London, Allen and Unwin, 1902). Lance E. Davis and Robert A. Huttenback, Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire ...
Steven Saylor once again brings the ancient world to vivid life in a novel that tells the story of a city and a people that has endured in the world's imagination like no other.
For nearly two hundred years, Great Britain had an empire on which the sun never set. This is the story of its rise and fall
Hailed as “A MACABRE MASTERPIECE OF POST-APOCALYPTIC ZOMBIE GOODNESS” on the Library of the Living Dead podcast, Empire brings stunning new twists to a shattering and unforgettable scenario of the not-too-distant future.
This distinctive collection ranges from the frighteningly whimsical image of Cortés dancing gleefully around a cannon to the haunting and poignant discovery of a dead refugee boy seemingly buried within the poet herself.
Eminent historian Paul Strathern opens the story of Empire with the Akkadian civilization, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman Empire, where we trace back our Western and ...
Now there's only hate. Now I just want to escape. Even if it means I have to kill him to be free. Before the Gypsy Brothers series there was the Cartel -- from USA Today bestselling author Lili St Germain.
And like the earlier novels in his historical cycle, Empire is a wonderfully vivid documentary drama." —The New York Times Book Review In this extraordinarily powerful epic Gore Vidal recreates America's Gilded Age—a period of promise ...
Explores the Inland Empire, a landscape of freeways, mountains, citrus, deserts, inland seas, and crackling fire in the hills, through insightful photographs and eight place-based essays
The British Empire radically altered the modern world. At its height, it governed over a quarter of the human race, and encompassed more than a fifth of the globe.
Empire is the breakout, network television hit of 2015—from its opening night, viewers were riveted by the story of record company magnate Lucious Lyon and his family, and the struggle for control over Empire Entertainment.
Imperialism as we knew it may be no more, but Empire is alive and well. It is, as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri demonstrate in this bold work, the new political order of globalization.
Examines the beneficial and negative effects of America's policy of imperialism on the world as a whole and the impact that its dominance will have on other nations and peoples in years to come.