Echoes of Empire
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Echoes of Empire: An Accidental Historian’s Journey Through the Post-Ottoman World
By James S. KesslerThe first Crimean khan was Hacı Giray, who proclaimed the Crimean cave city that is now called Chufut Kale (see below) as his first capital before moving on to Bakhchisaray, just a few kilometers away—the town that is now most ...
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Echoes of Empire: Memory, Identity and Colonial Legacies
By Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Berny Sèbe, Gabrielle MaasColonial powers won and lost empires one after another; what we see in the 1930s is in fact merely a snapshot of a fleeting moment in a fast-moving historical process. Memory clings on to that moment because it was – as would become ...
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Echoes of Empire: Sierra Leone Philatelic Legacy, 1786-1980
By Majed HalawiThis volume is an essential addition to the libraries of all who have an interest in social philately.
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Echoes of Empire: Memory, Identity and Colonial Legacies
By Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Berny Sèbe, Gabrielle Maas75 Two weeks before the sealing of the EEC's Eurafrican agreement, the French foreign minister Christian Pineau laid out the plans for Eurafrica to the UN General Assembly's Political Committee. 'Europe in its entirety', he argued, ...
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Echoes of Empire: An Accidental Historian’s Journey Through the Post-Ottoman World
By James S. KesslerIn Echoes of Empire: An Accidental Historian's Journey through the Post-Ottoman World, James S. Kessler chronicles his travels through a dizzying array of cultures, religions, languages, and political systems found within many of the former ...
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Echoes of Empire: Memory, Identity and Colonial Legacies
By Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Berny Sèbe, Gabrielle MaasThis groundbreaking book presents a panoramic view of attitudes to empires past and present, seen not only through the hard politics of international power structures but also through the nuances of memory, historiography and national and ...