Kategoria BISAC: History >> Modern - 19th Century

In April 1885 the British navy seized the small archipelago of Port Hamilton (now Geomundo) off Korea, an incident dubbed the Port Hamilton Affair. This was part of a larger story of empire and East Asian geopolitics involving China, Japan, Korea and Russia. At the time Britain and Russia seemed close to war over Afghanistan and taking the islands with their sheltered anchorage would deny them to Russia, whilst they might be useful in any blockade of the Russian fleet in Vladivostok. However, even in this imperial era, there were qualms about seizing inhabited territory belonging to a...

This book traces the often sharply differing perspectives historians have formed with regard to the key incidents in the careers of the two foremost politicians of the Victorian age - Gladstone and Disraeli. Following the parallel careers of both men, it focuses upon such contentious questions as why Disraeli opposed Corn Law repeal in 1846, if and when Gladstone became a Liberal, why Disraeli oversaw the 1867 Reform Act, how successful a Chancellor of the Exchequer was Gladstone, whether Disraeli was ever an Imperialist, and why Gladstone took up the cause of Irish Home Rule. In each case...

Vom 16. bis 18. Oktober 1813 wurde bei Leipzig die bis dahin grote Schlacht der Geschichte geschlagen, zum 100. Jahrestag von 1913 wurde das monumentale Volkerschlachtdenkmal gestiftet. Lange wurde die Volkerschlacht als ein Kampf zur "Befreiung Deutschlands" - unter preuischem Vorzeichen - gewertet. Angesichts der europaweiten, ja globalen Bezuge dieser "Volkerschlacht" ergaben sich jedoch hochst unterschiedliche Perspektiven und Bewertungsmastabe. Daher sind die militarischen Aspekte um die politischen zu erweitern. Zudem verband sich die Frage nach der angemessenen Wurdigung des...

Born in Argentina in 1841, William Henry Hudson grew up in that boisterous, lawless land of wild animals and even wilder desperados. He wrote about both, from recondite papers in 'Proc'eedings of the Zoological Society of London' to best selling novels including Green Mansions' and 'The Purple Land'. Argentina claimed him for her own and, even today, there are streets and towns named in honour of Guillermo Enrique Hudson. But he was strangely discontented with his native land, and by 1870 Hudson had moved to England, settling in Wiltshire where he enjoyed a peripatetic existence, wandering...

Karl Marx's thought has returned to the limelight in recent years. After the waning of interest in the 1980s and the "conspiracy of silence" in the 1990s, the literature on Marx is flourishing in the wake of the international financial crisis. Another Marx reconstructs the stages of Marx's thought in the light of the textual acquisitions of the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) project, the critical historical edition of the complete works of Marx and Engels, thus providing a more exhaustive account of the formation of Marx's conceptions than has previously been offered.

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19th-century British imperial expansion dramatically shaped today's globalised world. Imperialism encouraged mass migrations of people, shifting flora, fauna and commodities around the world and led to a series of radical environmental changes never before experienced in history. Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire explores how these networks shaped ecosystems, cultures and societies throughout the British Empire and how they were themselves transformed by local and regional conditions.

This multi-authored volume begins with a rigorous theoretical analysis of the categories...