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The book is divided into thirteen sections and explores the history, economics and geography of the region from 13,000 B.C. to the present day, with a particular focus on the border with Mexico. Vollmann has called Imperial "my Moby-Dick". [1] The book was a finalist for the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award for general nonfiction.
Antilegomena (from Greek ἀντιλεγόμενα) are written texts whose authenticity or value is disputed. [1] Eusebius in his Church History (c. 325) used the term for those Christian scriptures that were "disputed", literally "spoken against", in Early Christianity before the closure of the New Testament canon.
2015 J. David Greenstone Book Prize for best book in history and politics [3] [4] 2015 L. Carl Brown Book Prize [5] 2014 Jervis-Schroeder Best Book Award [6] 2011 Sage Paper Award; 2011 Frank L. Wilson Best Paper Award; The best books of 2013 on Foreign Policy's Middle East Channel
By the 1880s the British Empire covered a quarter of the world's land area, and included a fifth of the world's population. There was no doubt about the vastness of the potential, and there was agreement that opportunities were largely wasted because politically and constitutionally there was no unity, no common policies, no agreed central direction, no "permanent binding force" said Alfred ...
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The Pax Britannica Trilogy comprises three books of history written by Jan Morris. [1] The books cover the British Empire, from the earliest days of the East India Company to the troubled years of independence and nineteen-sixties post-colonialism.
The ranks of imperial consorts have varied over the course of Chinese history but remained important throughout owing to its prominence in the management of the inner court and in imperial succession, which ranked heirs according to the prominence of their mothers in addition to their birth order.
The term is generally used by critics of a national government. It has been used variously in the past to describe the Russian government under Boris Yeltsin and later, under Vladimir Putin, [10] the government of Egypt under Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, [11] governments in sub-Saharan Africa, [12] the government of the Philippines under Rodrigo Duterte, [13] and the governments under some United ...