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Oh Capitano! : Celso Cesare Moreno—Adventurer, Cheater, and Scoundrel on Four Continents
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ISBN: 0823281426 082327988X 0823279898 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press,

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The story of Celso Cesare Moreno, one of the most famous of the emigrant Italian elites or "prominenti." Moreno traveled the world lying, scheming, and building an extensive patron/client network to to establish his reputation as a middleman and person of significance. Through his machinations, Moreno became a critical player in the expansion of western trade and imperialism in Asia, the trafficking of migrant workers and children in the Atlantic, and the conflicts of Americans and natives over the fate of Hawaii, and imperial competitions of French, British, Italian and American governments during a critically important era of imperial expansion.


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Oh Capitano!
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ISBN: 9780823279890 0823279898 9780823281428 0823281426 9780823279869 9780823279876 9780823279883 082327988X 0823279871 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York, NY

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The story of Celso Cesare Moreno, one of the most famous of the emigrant Italian elites or "prominenti." Moreno traveled the world lying, scheming, and building an extensive patron/client network to to establish his reputation as a middleman and person of significance. Through his machinations, Moreno became a critical player in the expansion of western trade and imperialism in Asia, the trafficking of migrant workers and children in the Atlantic, and the conflicts of Americans and natives over the fate of Hawaii, and imperial competitions of French, British, Italian and American governments during a critically important era of imperial expansion.


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The Diffusion of "Small" Western Technologies in the Middle East : Invention, Use and Need in the 19th and 20th Centuries
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ISBN: 3110777223 Year: 2023 Publisher: Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter,

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In recent years we have become interested in the diffusion of "small" Western technologies in the countries of the Middle East during the 19th and 20th centuries, the era of Imperialism and first globalization. We postulated a contrast between "small" and "big" technologies. Under the latter category we may understand railway systems, electricity grids, telegraph networks, and steam navigation, imposed by foreign powers or installed by connected local entrepreneurs. But many "small" Western technologies, such as sewing machines, typewriters, pianos, eyeglasses, and similar consumer goods, which had been developed and manufactured in Europe and America, were wanted, and willingly acquired by the agency of individual users elsewhere. In a few cases, however, the inventions had to be adapted, or were overstepped, and even delayed. Some were adopted as social markers or status symbols only by elites who could afford them. Processes of adoption and diffusion therefore differed according to cultural settings, preferences, and needs. Social and cultural historians, and social scientists, not only of the Middle East, will find in this collection of essays a new approach to the impact of Western technological inventions on the Middle East.


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Japon colonial, 1880 - 1930 : les voix de la dissension
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ISBN: 9782251722214 2251722211 Year: 2014 Publisher: Paris Les Belles Lettres

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À peu près passée sous silence en Occident, le Japon connaît pourtant une longue tradition de personnalités engagées, capables de jeter sur leur société un regard aigu, souvent pertinent, et même parfois assez radical. Sont réunis ici des textes publiés avant guerre par des journalistes, des universitaires ou des militants qui critiquent les orientations prises par leur propre gouvernement dans les colonies de l'Empire du Grand Japon, et qui s’inscrivent dans une tradition de résistance aux discours convenus de l’État, dans un contexte parfois difficile, face à la censure, à la pression sociale, au conformisme du temps. À l’heure où les tensions en Extrême-Orient autour de la mémoire de la colonisation japonaise et de la guerre font l’actualité, il n’est pas inutile de redonner la parole à ceux qui, autrefois au Japon, eurent le courage de s’opposer et de dire non aux orientations politiques de l’État impérial.


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Japan and imperialism, 1853-1945
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ISBN: 9780924304828 0924304820 Year: 2017 Publisher: Ann Arbor Association for Asian Studies


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Entangled legacies of empire : Race, finance and inequality
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Year: 2023 Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press,

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More than 25 experts from around the world have contributed to this unique and provocative book. In a series of illuminating short essays, each author has presented a striking image as an invitation to consider the ghosts of colonialism and imperialism in today's global economy. In defiance of those who claim that today's capitalist system is free of racism and exploitation, this book shows that the past is not behind us, it defines our world and our lives. This book takes the reader on a global tour, from Malaysia to Canada, from Angola to Mexico, from Libya to China, from the City of London to the Australian outback, from the deep sea to the atmosphere. Along the way we meet the financiers, artists, advertisers, activists and everyday people who are grappling with the entangled legacies of empire.


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Entangled legacies of empire : Race, finance and inequality
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Year: 2023 Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press,

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More than 25 experts from around the world have contributed to this unique and provocative book. In a series of illuminating short essays, each author has presented a striking image as an invitation to consider the ghosts of colonialism and imperialism in today's global economy. In defiance of those who claim that today's capitalist system is free of racism and exploitation, this book shows that the past is not behind us, it defines our world and our lives. This book takes the reader on a global tour, from Malaysia to Canada, from Angola to Mexico, from Libya to China, from the City of London to the Australian outback, from the deep sea to the atmosphere. Along the way we meet the financiers, artists, advertisers, activists and everyday people who are grappling with the entangled legacies of empire.


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Entangled legacies of empire : Race, finance and inequality
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Year: 2023 Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press,

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More than 25 experts from around the world have contributed to this unique and provocative book. In a series of illuminating short essays, each author has presented a striking image as an invitation to consider the ghosts of colonialism and imperialism in today's global economy. In defiance of those who claim that today's capitalist system is free of racism and exploitation, this book shows that the past is not behind us, it defines our world and our lives. This book takes the reader on a global tour, from Malaysia to Canada, from Angola to Mexico, from Libya to China, from the City of London to the Australian outback, from the deep sea to the atmosphere. Along the way we meet the financiers, artists, advertisers, activists and everyday people who are grappling with the entangled legacies of empire.

Pan-Asianism in modern Japanese history : colonialism, regionalism and borders
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ISBN: 9780415372169 9780415372152 041537216X 0415372151 9780203965467 9781134193752 9781134193790 9781134193806 Year: 2007 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Routledge,


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The Victorian soldier in Africa
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ISBN: 1526137917 Year: 2004 Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press,

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The Victorian Soldier in Africa re-examines the campaign experience of British soldiers in Africa during the period, 1874--1902-the zenith of the Victorian imperial expansion-and does so from the perspective of the regimental soldier. The book utilises an unprecedented number of letters and diaries, written by regimental officers and other ranks, to allow soldiers to speak for themselves about their experience of colonial warfare. The sources demonstrate the adaptability of the British army in fighting in different climates, over demanding terrain and against a diverse array of enemies. They also uncover soldiers' responses to army reforms of the era as well as the response to the introduction of new technologies of war. Moreover, the book provides commentary on soldiers' views of commanding officers and politicians alongside assessment of war correspondents, colonial auxiliaries and African natives in their roles as bearers, allies and enemies. This book reveals new insights on imperial and racial attitudes within the army, on relations between soldiers and the media and the production of information and knowledge from frontline to homefront. It will make fascinating reading for students, academics and enthusiasts in imperial history, Victorian studies, military history and colonial warfare.

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