New edition of a trail-blazing history of imperial warfare
Victor Gordon Kiernan Boeken
Een Britse marxistische historicus met een bijzondere focus op de geschiedenis van het imperialisme. Zijn werk verdiepte zich in de diepe machtsstructuren en hun invloed op de wereldgeschiedenis. Hij onderzocht hoe koloniale systemen werden gevormd en evolueerden, en hun impact. Zijn analyses boden scherpe inzichten in historische processen.
A Dictionary of Marxist Thought - Second Edition
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Part dictionary and part encyclopedia, this book has become the standard reference work on the concepts of Marxism and the individuals and schools of thought that have subsequently contributed to the body of Marxist ideas.
Eight Tragedies of Shakespeare
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Victor Kiernan provides a rich and insightful analysis of eight of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies, revealing how they were shaped by the social and political upheavals of his age.
Colonial Empires and Armies, 1815-1960
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A wide-ranging book which brings within a single view the wars which created Europe's empires. Beginning with the post-Napoleonic era, it presents all the major episodes of an often dramatic story in which the military agents of European imperialism met the peoples of the rest of the world in armed conflict.
Erudite, ironic, and global in its scope, this book is a definitive guide to the history of racism and Eurocentrism.