Colonial India

In the 18th century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannons, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalized racism, and caused millions to die from starvation. British imperialism justified itself as enlightened despotism for the benefit of the governed, but Shashi Tharoor takes on and demolishes this position, demonstrating how every supposed imperial "gift" was designed in Britain's interests alone.

In the 31st century, humanity stands on the precipice of extinction. The human colonies throughout the galaxy have been decimated by the relentless assault of the Korilian Empire, leaving Earth as the final refuge. Humankind's last hope rests on the tactical prowess of Admiral Jon McCarthy and the foresight of the Nexus House, an ancient conclave of clairvoyants who have long guided humanity's path.

Western civilization is under attack. At universities and in the media, professors and pundits decry Western civilization as exploitative, destructive, and without value. But fear not: coming to its defense is this "P.I." guide to Western civilization.

The History of Australia: From Indigenous Origins to a Modern Nation Australia is called the “land down under,” but how much do you really know about its past? Did you know that modern Australia started as a British prison colony? Or that for tens of thousands of years before that, Indigenous peoples lived there, building rich cultures and traditions? This book takes you through Australia’s history, from its first inhabitants to the arrival of European settlers to its fight for independence to its current role in world events. Learn about the convicts who built early settlements, the ...

Apart from The Last of the Mohicans, most Americans know little of the French and Indian War, also known as the Seven Years' War, and yet it remains one of the most fascinating periods in our history. In January 2006, PBS will air The War That Made America, a four-part documentary about this epic conflict. Fred Anderson, the award-winning and critically acclaimed historian, has written the official tie-in to this exciting television event.

In the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States series, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America, from the native inhabitants from millennia past through the decades of Western colonization and conquest and across the entire continent, all the way to the Pacific coast.

The “compelling [and] vivid” (The New York Times Book Review) true story of a man who claimed to be a survivor of a 1919 British massacre in India, his elaborate twenty-year plan for revenge, and the mix of truth and legend that made him a hero to hundreds of millions. When Sir Michael...

India, 1857. A British Army column marches through shoulder-high grass under the command of a colonel who has never seen combat. Sergeant Major William Croft knows the formation is wrong, the jungle is watching, and the things that took the scouts are not tigers. He is right about all of it. When sickle-clawed predators tear the column apart in minutes, Croft drags a handful of survivors to the crumbling Natherpur Outpost — where American paleontologist Abigail Harding has been studying bones that should not exist. What she knows about the creatures and what he knows about war will have ...

For 400 years - from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the US Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s - the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violence. During that time the native population of the Western Hemisphere declined by as many as 100 million people.

En el siglo XVI, en el árido y despiadado Despoblado de la Nueva España, el Camino Real de Tierra Adentro era más que una ruta comercial: era un campo de batalla donde el choque entre indios y españoles definía la supervivencia. Esta novela histórica sigue a Miguel Caldera, un capitán mestizo forjado en el fuego del conflicto, cuya vida oscila entre la brutalidad de la guerra y el arte de la diplomacia. Su misión: apaciguar a los indómitos guachichiles, una tribu chichimeca temida por su fiereza y resistencia implacable ante los conquistadores. Pero Caldera, marcado por su herencia...

Over the last generation, historians have broadened our understanding of colonial America by adopting both a trans-Atlantic and a trans-continental perspective, examining the interplay of Europe, Africa, and the Americas through the flow of goods, people, plants, animals, capital, and ideas. In this Very Short Introduction, Alan Taylor presents an engaging overview of the best of this new scholarship.  

A widowed countess. A murder. A flight to colonial India. And a forbidden love capable of changing everything. Helen, Countess of York, has spent years surviving a marriage that became a sentence. Her husband, a cruel, drunken and unfaithful man, has not only destroyed her life; he has also planted fear in the hearts of his own children. But one desperate night changes everything. The Earl is found dead. And Helen is trapped inside a dangerous truth: if she remains in England, justice may condemn her. If she flees, she may yet save herself… even if she must leave behind everything she ...

A bold and sweeping history of modern South Asia, told through the five partitions that reshaped it. As recently as 1928, a vast swath of Asia stretching from the Red Sea to the borders of Thailand was bound together under a single imperial banner, an entity known officially as the “Indian...

The Company That Ruled an Empire Most people think of it as a trading company. It started with spices and silks. It ended up controlling armies, collecting taxes, and making decisions that shaped the fate of hundreds of millions of people. The East India Company was unlike anything the world had seen before, and this guide explains how it happened, step by step. Founded in 1600 with a royal charter from Queen Elizabeth I, the Company began as a merchant venture designed to compete with Dutch and Portuguese rivals for access to Asian trade routes. Within a century it had established ...

This volume in a series of world history case studies analyzes Spanish colonialism in the early seventeenth century by examining the career of Diego Fernández de Córdoba. Fernández served as viceroy of both New Spain (Mexico) and Peru during a period that featured strained race relations, new socio-economic tensions, and bitter conflicts between Catholic religious orders. His measured responses to Jews, the Inquisition, women, and local rebellions reveal a man determined to hold a vast empire together through the power of compromise. What emerges is a new understanding of an often-...

In the shadow of the London Blitz, artist Elsie Turner clings fiercely to her canvases, refusing to let war dim the colors that define her. The bombs test her nerve, but the struggle also stirs memories of her golden youth in India and of the long-lost love of her life.

Through hell and sand, they stand together. As the dust settles on the first resistance to British rule in India, a new storm brews on the horizon. The Wellesley brothers strategise their next offensive, eager to support their new allies in the turbulent Indian subcontinent. Fresh troops arrive...

Experience the tense colonial history of foreign merchants engineering the rise and fall of a sprawling global empire. Perfect for a long commute, this gripping narrative transports you to the pre-colonial Indian subcontinent, where thriving regional states and dynamic trade networks collided...

Aquí tienes la versión reescrita, sin la mención a las ilustraciones y con la prosa algo más pulida: Cuando Sherlock Holmes recibe un telegrama de la viuda del coronel Sir Edmund Voss —hallado muerto en su despacho, cerrado por dentro, aferrado a un retal de seda azul—, el caso parece un misterio de habitación cerrada. Es, en realidad, un ajuste de cuentas treinta años en gestación. Tres oficiales británicos de la campaña de Cawnpore de 1857 han muerto en circunstancias idénticas. Cada uno participó en las brutales represalias que siguieron al Motín de la India. El Foreign ...

A forgotten clash that shaped empires — brought vividly to life. In the spring of 1741, the fate of the New World hung in the balance. At the height of the War of Jenkins’ Ear, one of the largest amphibious military campaigns in history descended upon the Caribbean coast. British forces—nearly 200 ships and over 25,000 men—set their sights on the fortified Spanish stronghold of Cartagena de Indias. Their goal: to break Spain’s grip on the Americas. What followed was a brutal and awe-inspiring siege filled with strategic brilliance, devastating miscalculations, tropical disease, ...