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The Resources of the Empire and Their Development
The Resources of the Empire: pt.1. Birkett, M.S. Ferrous metals. 1924
The Resources of the Empire: part 1. Ainsworth-Davis, J.R. Crops and fruits.- Vol. 1. part 2. Ainsworth-Davis, J.R. Meat, fish, and dairy produce.- Vol. 2. Duly, S.J. Timber and timber products.- Vol. 3. Ward, J.S.M. Textile fibres and yarns.- Vol. 4. Andrew, G.W. (ed.) Fuel.- Vol. 5. MacLaren, W.A. (comp.) Rubber, tea, and cacao, with special sections on coffee, spices and tobacco.- Vol. 6. Snow, E.C. Leather, hides, skins, and tanning materials.- Vol. 7. Ashe, A.W. and Boorman, H.G.T. Chemicals.- Vol. 8. part 1. Birkett, M.S. Ferrous metals.- Vol. 8. part 2. Penzer, N.M. Non-ferrous metals and other minerals.- Vol. 9. Bolton, E. Richards. Oils, fats, waxes, and resins.- Vol. 10. Stephenson, W. Tetley. Communications
The Resources of the British Empire
Author: John Bristed
Publisher: New York : E. Sargeant
Published: 1811
Total Pages: 554
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The Currency of Empire
Author: Jonathan Barth
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2021-06-15
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 150175579X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In The Currency of Empire, Jonathan Barth explores the intersection of money and power in the early years of North American history, and he shows how the control of money informed English imperial action overseas. The export-oriented mercantile economy promoted by the English Crown, Barth argues, directed the plan for colonization, the regulation of colonial commerce, and the politics of empire. The imperial project required an orderly flow of gold and silver, and thus England's colonial regime required stringent monetary regulation. As Barth shows, money was also a flash point for resistance; many colonists acutely resented their subordinate economic station, desiring for their local economies a robust, secure, and uniform money supply. This placed them immediately at odds with the mercantilist laws of the empire and precipitated an imperial crisis in the 1670s, a full century before the Declaration of Independence. The Currency of Empire examines what were a series of explosive political conflicts in the seventeenth century and demonstrates how the struggle over monetary policy prefigured the patriot reaction to the Stamp Act and so-called Intolerable Acts on the eve of American independence. Thanks to generous funding from the Arizona State University and George Mason University, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access (OA) volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other Open Access repositories.
Empire of Cotton
Author: Sven Beckert
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2015-11-10
Total Pages: 642
ISBN-13: 0375713964
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE • A Pulitzer Prize finalist that's as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to exist. “Masterly … An astonishing achievement.” —The New York Times The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers and factory owners. Sven Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the world of modern capitalism, including the vast wealth and disturbing inequalities that are with us today. In a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful politicians recast the world’s most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to make and remake global capitalism.
The Inka Empire
Author: Izumi Shimada
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2015-06-01
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 0292760795
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Massive yet elegantly executed masonry architecture and andenes (agricultural terraces) set against majestic and seemingly boundless Andean landscapes, roads built in defiance of rugged terrains, and fine textiles with orderly geometric designs—all were created within the largest political system in the ancient New World, a system headed, paradoxically, by a single, small minority group without wheeled vehicles, markets, or a writing system, the Inka. For some 130 years (ca. A.D. 1400 to 1533), the Inka ruled over at least eighty-six ethnic groups in an empire that encompassed about 2 million square kilometers, from the northernmost region of the Ecuador–Colombia border to northwest Argentina. The Inka Empire brings together leading international scholars from many complementary disciplines, including human genetics, linguistics, textile and architectural studies, ethnohistory, and archaeology, to present a state-of-the-art, holistic, and in-depth vision of the Inkas. The contributors provide the latest data and understandings of the political, demographic, and linguistic evolution of the Inkas, from the formative era prior to their political ascendancy to their post-conquest transformation. The scholars also offer an updated vision of the unity, diversity, and essence of the material, organizational, and symbolic-ideological features of the Inka Empire. As a whole, The Inka Empire demonstrates the necessity and value of a multidisciplinary approach that incorporates the insights of fields beyond archaeology and ethnohistory. And with essays by scholars from seven countries, it reflects the cosmopolitanism that has characterized Inka studies ever since its beginnings in the nineteenth century.
Properties of Empire
Author: Ian Saxine
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2019-04-23
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 147983212X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A fascinating history of a contested frontier, where struggles over landownership brought Native Americans and English colonists together in surprising ways to preserve Indigenous territory. Properties of Empire shows the dynamic relationship between Native and English systems of property on the turbulent edge of Britain’s empire, and how so many colonists came to believe their prosperity depended on acknowledging Indigenous land rights. As absentee land speculators and hardscrabble colonists squabbled over conflicting visions for the frontier, Wabanaki Indians’ unity allowed them to forcefully project their own interpretations of often poorly remembered old land deeds and treaties. The result was the creation of a system of property in Maine that defied English law, and preserved Native power and territory. Eventually, ordinary colonists, dissident speculators, and grasping officials succeeded in undermining and finally destroying this arrangement, a process that took place in councils and courtrooms, in taverns and treaties, and on battlefields. Properties of Empire challenges assumptions about the relationship between Indigenous and imperial property creation in early America, as well as the fixed nature of Indian “sales” of land, revealing the existence of a prolonged struggle to re-interpret seventeenth-century land transactions and treaties well into the eighteenth century. The ongoing struggle to construct a commonly agreed-upon culture of landownership shaped diplomacy, imperial administration, and matters of colonial law in powerful ways, and its legacy remains with us today.
