The Roads To Rome A History Of Imperial Expansion [Audiobook]

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English | ASIN: B0DM3NCGW9 | 2024 | 13 hours and 32 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 386 MB

"All roads lead to Rome" is a medieval proverb, but it's also true: today's European roads still follow the networks of the ancient empire-and these ancient roads continue to grip our imaginations as a physical manifestation of Rome's greatness. Over the two thousand years since they were built, these roads have been walked by crusaders and pilgrims, liberators and dictators, but also by tourists and writers, refugees and artists. As channels of trade and travel-and routes for conquest and creativity-Catherine Fletcher reveals how these roads transformed the cultures, and intertwined the fates, of a vast panoply of people across Europe and beyond. The Roads to Rome is a journey into a past that remains intimately connected to our present. Traveling from Scotland to Cádiz to Istanbul and back to Rome, the listener meanders through nations and empires that have risen and fallen. We encounter spies, bandits, innkeepers, a Byzantine noblewoman on the run, aristocrats on their Grand Tour, Napoleon, John Keats, the Shelleys, Frederick Douglass, and Mussolini. Based on original research, this is the first narrative history to tell the full story of life on the roads that lead to Rome.

The Russian Conquest of Central Asia: A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814-1914 (Alexander Morrison) (2021)
Publisher: Wydawnictwo: Cambridge University Press

The Russian conquest of Central Asia was perhaps the nineteenth century's most dramatic and successful example of European imperial expansion, adding 1.5 million square miles and at least 6 million people - most of them Muslims - to the Tsar's domains. Alexander Morrison provides the first comprehensive military and diplomatic history of the conquest to be published for over a hundred years. From the earliest conflicts on the steppe frontier in the 1830s to the annexation of the Pamirs in the early 1900s, he gives a detailed account of the logistics and operational history of Russian wars against Khoqand, Bukhara and Khiva, the capture of Tashkent and Samarkand, and the bloody subjection of the Turkmen, as well as Russian diplomatic relations with China, Persia and the British Empire. Based on archival research in Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia and India, memoirs and Islamic chronicles, this book explains how Russia conquered a colonial empire in Central Asia, with consequences that still resonate today.
'In a masterful work of history and historiography, Morrison demolishes the "Great Game" story of Russia's expansion, so entrenched in English-language scholarship. His longue-durée account of Russia's Central Asian conquests offers compelling narrative, deep dives into camels and weapons, and comparisons of battles and encounters from the pens of Central Asian participants and observers, as well as the far more abundant Russian accounts.' Marianne Kamp, Indiana University
'This wonderfully intelligent, original and well-written book is based on years of meticulous research conducted in many languages in archives across Eurasia, some of them previously almost inaccessible to foreign historians. Not only does it offer unique insights into the thinking of Russian policy-makers, it also adds crucially to our understanding of nineteenth-century European imperialism. This work should transform the Anglophone world's understanding of the "Great Game".' Dominic Lieven, University of Cambridge
'The Russian Conquest of Central Asia is a major work. Based on the supreme command of a large body of material, scattered across a dozen archives between present-day Russia, Uzbekistan, Georgia and Kazakhstan, Morrison's book is destined to have a deep and long-term impact on the field of Russian imperial history, the comparative history of colonialism in Asia, and Central Asian history.' Paolo Sartori, Austrian Academy of Sciences

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