European Empires From Conquest to Collapse, 1815-1960 by V.G. Kiernan, 2024
New edition of a trail-blazing history of imperial warfare.
Victor Kiernan offers a ground-breaking, truly global history of the violence of empire. European Empires from Conquest to Collapse deftly surveys the fighting forces and military engagements of the Great Powers, from the British in India to the scramble for Africa.
Why do we have 350+ militarized CIA bases around the world?
Want to cut cost? Reduce those by 80%. But #empires need control of resources and the #us model requires #vassal states.
US is apparently in a position analogous to #England and #France in the last quarter of the 19th Century. I.E. Perceived overpopulation, income inequality, poverty, lack of housing, and declining influence. As well as, worries about continued control of future resources.
#Empire is expensive and imperial states must be subsidized by their vassals and colonies. This goes a long way towards explaining Trump’s focus on #Canada , #Greenland , and #Ukraine resources.
Shadow Empires, with Thomas Barfield – Byzantium & Friends, Episode 124 https://www.medievalists.net/2024/11/shadow-empires-thomas-barfield/ #empires #history #historypodcasts
Les phases, l'histoire et l'héritage des conquêtes #arabes (632-750 CE)
Après la mort du #prophète #Mahomet, ses partisans ont bâti l’un des plus grands #empires de l’histoire. Découvrez l'histoire des conquêtes arabes.
English https://www.thecollector.com/arab-conquests-history-legacy/
French https://www-thecollector-com.translate.goog/arab-conquests-history-legacy/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=fr&_x_tr_hl=fr&_x_tr_hist=true
« Certains des #empires les plus puissants avant et après »
Former President of Mongolia highlights how Putin has no good argument for his expansionist aggression, and it’s kinda funny.
![Screenshot of a post by Konstantin Sonin @k_sonin:
Mongolia's former president, @elbegdorj, subtly trolls Putin. Putin's bizarre and sinister logic, applied to Mongolia's past, would make half of Eurasia their "historical lands"
[quoted post by Mongol Tsakhia ELBEGDORJ:
After Putin's talk. I found Mongolian historic map.
Don't worry. We are a peaceful and free nation?
[four map images showing the massive size of the historical Mongol empire and comparing it to the relatively smaller Roman Empire, smaller modern countries and the smaller continent of Asia]
11:16 PM • 2/11/24 From Earth](https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/111/920/395/627/730/049/original/9381e3ff0610afef.jpeg "Screenshot of a post by Konstantin Sonin @k_sonin:
Mongolia's former president, @elbegdorj, subtly trolls Putin. Putin's bizarre and sinister logic, applied to Mongolia's past, would make half of Eurasia their \"historical lands\"
[quoted post by Mongol Tsakhia ELBEGDORJ:
After Putin's talk. I found Mongolian historic map.
Don't worry. We are a peaceful and free nation?
[four map images showing the massive size of the historical Mongol empire and comparing it to the relatively smaller Roman Empire, smaller modern countries and the smaller continent of Asia]
11:16 PM • 2/11/24 From Earth")
ever heard that factoid about empires lasting 250 years? Sometimes it's claimed that this is an average, one person even claimed that it was an upper limit.
This is probably false. I mean, the claim about it being an upper limit is obviously false, there have been Chinese empires that lasted up to 1000 years. The claim originates with a fellow named Glubb. Dude was born in the 19th century and served as an agent of British military control of the Middle East. He wrote a short book/long essay called "The Fate of Empires and the Search for Survival" in which he made that claim. He was not trained as a historian, offered no citations, and excluded American and African empires. (He did say it was an average, though.)
Anyway I thought I'd mention it since I brought it up during a conversation with @poiseunderchaos and they were like, "yeah I'm not so sure about that."
The Universities of Innsbruck and Munich are organising a lecture series on “Empire and Violence”.
The first talk will be held on Friday, June 2nd, and can be watched online.
https://www.discoursesofmassviolence.komparatistik.uni-muenchen.de/events/lecture-series1/index.html
https://archive.org/details/europeanimperialism
Historical Dictionary of European Imperialism by James S. Olson; Robert Shadle; Ross Marlay; William G. Ratliff; Joseph M. Rowe, Jr.; Judith E. Olson; J. Larry Murdock
Topics
#imperialism, #europe, #history, #colonialism, #dictionaries, #historicaldictionaries, #spanishempire, #spanishimperialism, #spanishcolonialism, #portugueseempire, #portugueseimperialism, #portuguesecolonialism, #slavery, #blackchattelslavery, #britishimperialism, #britishcolonialism, #britishempire, #dutchempire, #dutchimperialism, #dutchcolonialism, #frenchempire, #frenchimperialism, #frenchcolonialism, #germanempire, #germanimperialism, #germancolonialism, #belgianempire, #belgianimperialism, #belgiancolonialism, #italianempire, #italianimperialism, #italiancolonialism, #genocide, #spain, #portugal, #britain, #greatbritain, #unitedkingdom, #españa, #thenetherlands, #netherlands, #nederland, #holland, #france, #germany, #deutschland, #belgium, #belgië, #belgique, #belgien, #italy, #italia, #empire, #empires, #whitesupremacy
The major focus of this historical dictionary is on the Spanish, Portuguese, British, Dutch, French, German, Belgian, and Italian empires during the past 500 years.
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