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A coleção O Brasil Imperial, organizada por Keila Grinberg e Ricardo Salles, apresenta a reflexão histórica sobre o Brasil do século XIX, incluindo temas pouco debatidos até hoje. Além do panorama traçado do período Joanino à crise do império, os...

A coleção O Brasil Imperial, organizada por Keila Grinberg e Ricardo Salles, apresenta a reflexão histórica sobre o Brasil do século XIX, incluindo temas pouco debatidos até hoje. Além do panorama traçado do período Joanino à crise do império, os...

Este livro trata de duas trajetórias emblemáticas: a de um empresário nativo, celebrado e mitificado, o Barão de Mauá, e um forasteiro, o comerciante inglês Samuel Phillips, cujas experiências singulares propiciam ao autor a composição de um quadro...

Jonas é o artilheiro do time da escola. Isa divide seus segredos com a amiga Sofia, que está apaixonada por Jonas. Goma, meio-irmão de Sofia, é viciado em chicletes e usa a imaginação privilegiada para se safar de situações difíceis e ajudar os...

Pedro Calmon, com os três volumes de sua ´História Social do Brasil´, publicados em 1935, 1937 e 1939, procurou, de forma pioneira, lançar luzes sobre uma essencial e esquecida dimensão da evolução do país: a história da sociedade brasileira. É um...

No Brasil do século XIX, os médicos eram artigo raro e caro. Mais do que isso, eram motivo de chacota. Suas prescrições causavam pânico nos pacientes. Para lutar contra as dificuldades que enfrentavam, travavam verdadeira guerra com outros médicos,...

“Em “Selos, moedas e poder: o Estado Imperial brasileiro e seus símbolos 1840-1889”, o autor pretende promover uma leitura da construção do Estado e da idéia de nação no Brasil, durante o Segundo Reinado. Com esse propósito utiliza fontes...

O livro da historiadora Begonha Bediaga chega em bom momento. Resultado de pesquisa criteriosa fundamentada em uma variedade de fontes para sua tese de doutoramento, para além de preencher uma lacuna necessária, trata da história do Imperial...

“Ao Soberano Congresso”, demonstra como o sistema representativo brasileiro nos primeiros anos do Império era algo novo nos trópicos, assim como o desejo do indivíduo em se fazer presente na vida política. Imbuídos da ideia de que possuíam direitos,...

Ao ler 'Dez, nota dez! Eu sou Carlos Imperial', o leitor conhecerá a movimentada vida de Carlos Imperial, o ogro midiático que bagunçou a vida cultural brasileira. Autoproclamado 'rei da pilantragem', Imperial usava de todos os artifícios para...

Tomando como ponto de partida a cidade do Rio de Janeiro e a demolição de seus cortiços, passando pelas polêmicas entre infeccionistas e contagionistas em torno da transmissão da febre amarela e pela resistência das comunidades negras à vacina...

This new interpretation of the final years of Imperial Russia provides a clear and concise introduction to a critical period in the history of modern Russia. Professor Hutchinson outlines the key problems facing the Tsarist regime, and the attitudes...

Neste segundo encontro da heroína Carol com o Homem de Terno Branco, o que era para ser um simples passeio a Petrópolis acaba virando mais um mistério a ser desvendado pela jovem detetive, que se vê envolvida no roubo da coroa que pertenceu a D....

First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This text helps students understand world history by focusing on an issue that has profoundly shaped the modern world order: the establishment and collapse of global empires since 1750.An Imperial World uses a combination of primary documents and...

This text helps students understand world history by focusing on an issue that has profoundly shaped the modern world order: the establishment and collapse of global empires since 1750.An Imperial World uses a combination of primary documents and...

The German offensives which crushed Poland in 1939 and swallowed most of Western Europe in less than two months in 1940 have been well documented and heavily studied, however, the overall picture of the remarkable Japanese offensive land campaign in...

This volume looks at the impact on the wider world of the end of the European empires and their replacement by a new international order dominated by East-West rivalries. After surveying the decolonization process, the book looks successively at the...

Attempts to shed new light on the Anglo-American rivalry in China in the period between the defeat of Japan and the triumph of the Chinese Communists. This study contends that the USSR was not a major factor in the dispute.

Attempts to shed new light on the Anglo-American rivalry in China in the period between the defeat of Japan and the triumph of the Chinese Communists. This study contends that the USSR was not a major factor in the dispute.

The governance arrangements put in place for Siberia and Mongolia after the collapse of the Qing and Russian Empires were highly unusual, experimental and extremely interesting. The Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic established...

New Qing Imperial History uses the Manchu summer capital of Chengde and associated architecture, art and ritual activity as the focus for an exploration of the importance of Inner Asia and Tibet to the Qing Empire (1636-1911). Well-known contributors...

The Wilhelmine period is a crucial period of German history and the focus of great historical controversy; greater understanding of this period is also vital to explain the rise of the Third Reich. The authors focus on Germany'apos;s role as a major...

Imperial Germany, 1871-1918 explores the rise of Germany as a nation state and a European power centre, through to the humiliation of the state in the First World War. Covering both domestic and foreign policy, this key text combines historical...

The technical transformation of the Royal Navy during the Victorian era posed many design, tactical and operational problems for administrators from the 1830s onwards. The switch from sail to steam required the creation of a system of defended...

This book, originally published in 1952, describes and explains the stage of the decline of the Russian Empire between the Crimean and First World Wars. The book is divided up by period: the reign of Alexander II (1855-81), the period of reaction...

This book, originally published in 1952, describes and explains the stage of the decline of the Russian Empire between the Crimean and First World Wars. The book is divided up by period: the reign of Alexander II (1855-81), the period of reaction...

Britain'apos;s relationship with China in the nineteenth and early twentieth century is often viewed in terms of gunboat diplomacy, unequal treaties, and the unrelenting pursuit of Britain'apos;s own commercial interests. This book, however, based on...

The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the...

From explorers tracing rivers to navigators hunting for longitude, spatial awareness and the need for empirical understanding were linked to British strategy in the 1700s. This strategy, in turn, aided in the assertion of British power and authority...

From explorers tracing rivers to navigators hunting for longitude, spatial awareness and the need for empirical understanding were linked to British strategy in the 1700s. This strategy, in turn, aided in the assertion of British power and authority...

In this impressive and ambitious survey Dr Bayly studies the rise, apogee and decline of what has come to be called `the Second British Empire'apos; -- the great expansion of British dominion overseas (particularly in Asia and the Middle East) during...

In this impressive and ambitious survey Dr Bayly studies the rise, apogee and decline of what has come to be called `the Second British Empire'apos; -- the great expansion of British dominion overseas (particularly in Asia and the Middle East) during...

Intellectually and visually stimulating, this important landmark book looks at the religious, political, social and artistic significance of the Imperial tombs of the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD). It traces the evolutionary development of the most...

Rescuing the Seven Years'apos; War era from the shadows of the American Revolution and moving away from the political focus that dominates Iroquois studies, this work offers something substantially new by exploring Iroquois experience in largely...

The Great War is a landmark history that firmly places the First World War in the context of imperialism. Set to overturn conventional accounts of what happened during this, the first truly international conflict, it extends the study of the First...

The Great War is a landmark history that firmly places the First World War in the context of imperialism. Set to overturn conventional accounts of what happened during this, the first truly international conflict, it extends the study of the First...

Roman Emperor Constantine raised Christianity from a minority religion to imperial status, but his religious orientation was by no means unambiguous. In Constantine and the Cities, Noel Lenski demonstrates how the emperor and his subjects used the...

Combining rich documentation with rigorous analysis, China's Last Imperial Frontier illuminates the internal dynamics of regional power struggle and local resistance that shaped the empire’s response to foreign imperialisms in Tibet. The book’s...

Power and Control in the Imperial Valley examines the evolution of irrigated farming in the Imperial-Mexicali Valley, an arid desert straddling the California–Baja California border, bisected by the international boundary line. Benny Andrés analyzes...

'apos;Manufactured'apos; Masculinity should be considered essential reading for scholars in the humanities and social sciences at every level and in all parts of the academic world. It weaves together brilliantly the elements of the...

Written by leading scholars, this collection provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of modern empires. Spanning the era of modern imperial history from the early sixteenth century to the present, it challenges both the rather insular...

This landmark book shows how much Victorian and Edwardian Roman archaeologists were influenced by their own experience of empire in their interpretation of archaeological evidence. This distortion of the facts became accepted truth and its legacy is...

Darius I, King of Persia, claims to have accomplished many deeds in the early years of his reign, but was one of them the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem? The editor who added the date to the books of Haggai and Zechariah thought so, and the...