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An Overseas Colony of a Continental Empire, 1804-1867Interpreting Russia's nineteenth-century colonial system in Alaska, Russian        America looks at how the Russians governed the indigenous people of their American        colony and the ways in which they drew upon their experience in Siberia and other        imperial models....

A Second-Century Journey through the Roman EmpireOne of the greatest--and most enigmatic--Roman emperors, Hadrian stabilized the imperial borders, established peace throughout the empire, patronized the arts, and built an architectural legacy that lasts to this day: the great villa at Tivoli, the domed wonder of the Pantheon, and the eponymous wall...

An IntroductionEach year brings a batch of new memoirs, ranging from works by former teachers and celebrity has-beens to disillusioned soldiers and bestselling novelists. In addition to becoming bestsellers in their own right, memoirs have become a popular object of inquiry in the academy and a mainstay in most MFA workshops. Courses in what is now...

From Renaissance to IndependenceThis book publishes, for the first time in decades, and in many cases, for the first time in a readily accessible edition, English language philosophical literature written in India during the period of British rule....

An Interpretation of Aristotle's Metaphysics ThetaDoing and Being confronts the problem of how to understand two central concepts of        Aristotle's philosophy: energeia and dunamis. These terms seem ambiguous between        actuality/potentiality and activity/capacity, but Aristotle did not intend this.          Beere's careful reading of...

Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in        China, and China's survival over three thousand years may owe more to its literary        traditions than to its political history. This Very Short Introduction tells the        story of Chinese literature from antiquity to the present, focusing on the key...