The real-life story of Robert Clive would be judged as wildly implausible if it came from the pen of a novelist. Clive of India was one of the most extraordinary and colorful figures Britain ever produced. The founder of Britain's Indian empire, he was also Britain's first great guerrilla fighter by the age of twenty-seven, conqueror of Bengal at thirty-one, and avenging angel of righteousness against the greed of his own fellow-countrymen at forty-one. In his later life Parliament brought him under painful scrutiny and he ended up one of the most hated men in Britain. He died violently under still-mysterious circumstances just before his fiftieth birthday. The story of Clive can be viewed on several levels: as a spirited military adventure by a man who defied death many times, who withstood the greatest siege in British military history, and conspired to force one of the most absolute and cruellest monarchs on earth off his throne; as the morality tale of a penniless young man who became the sole ruler of a huge empire, ended up as one of the richest men in Britain and was then brought to account and driven to despair; or as the story of a plundering early poacher-turned-gamekeeper who sought to establish a moral and legal order amidst slaughter and greed. Clive today lies buried in an unknown grave in an obscure corner of rural Shropshire, a reflection of the controversy he aroused in his lifetime and that still surrounds his legacy and the manner of his death. In this lively and revealing study Robert Harvey illuminates Clive's life's journey from the green fields surrounding Market Drayton through his adventures in India, his drive to success and self-destruction, to his vicious and premature death, by suicide or murder.

Clive: The Life and Death of a British Emperor

Biographies & Memoirs

Harvey, Robert

Historical

Thomas Dunne Books

Today global communism seems just a terrible memory, an expressionist nightmare as horrific as Nazism and the Holocaust, or the slaughter in the First World War. Was it only just over a decade ago that stone-faced old men were still presiding over "workers" paradises in the name of "the people" while hundreds of millions endured grinding poverty under a system of mind-controlling servitude which did not hesitate to murder and imprison whole populations in the cause of "progress"? Or that the world seemed under threat from revolutionary hordes engulfing one country after another, backed by a vast military machine and the threat of nuclear annihilation? In the 1970s, with the fall of South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, the march of Marxism-Leninism across the world seemed irresistible. Less than two decades later the experiment had collapsed, leaving perhaps 100 million dead, as well as economic devastation spanning continents. Even China now increasingly embraces free market economics. Only in a few backwaters does communism endure, as obsolete as rust-belt industry. This book is the first global narrative history of that defining human experience. It weighs up the balance sheet: why did communism occur largely in countries wrenched from feudalism or colonialism to twentieth-century modernism, rather than--as Marx had predicted--in developed countries groaning under the weight of a parasitic middle class? Were coercion and state planning in fact the only way forward for backward countries? What was the explanation for its appeal -- not least among many highly intelligent observers in the West? Why did it grow so fast, and collapse with such startling suddenness? A Short History of Communism sets out the whole epic story for the first time, a panorama of human idealism, cruelty, suffering and courage, and provides an intriguing new analysis.

A Short History of Communism

History

World

For the best part of two millennia Japan was an aggressively reclusive country and it was not until 1869 that Japan opened its doors and the basis was laid for its status as a modern industrial power. This book traces the development of the world's strongest economy.

The Undefeated: The Rise, Fall and Rise of Modern Japan

Asia

Pan/Macmillan

For the best part of two millennia Japan was an aggressively reclusive country. Its relations with the outside world were characterized by suspicion and insularity and it was not until 1869, under the Emperor Meiji, that the basis was laid for Japan's status as a modern industrial power. Following Japan's increasing militarism in the early-20th century until its attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941, this book also traces the development of Japan that occurred after its defeat in World War II. Japan's current position as a superpower is analyzed and Robert Harvey reaches conclusions about its balance of power and continued growth, as well as Japan's impact on the rest of the world.

The Undefeated: The Rise, Fall and Rise of Greater Japan

'A dashing biography full of rich detail and sharp comment'The TimesRobert Harvey has written an in-depth study of the extraordinary man who was one of Britain's great romantic adventurers. At the age of 35, Clive had conquered the continent of India and established an empire that endured for two centuries. Despite his fame and immense fortune, he died mysteriously at the age of 50. His death was thought by many to be suicide, but Harvey produces compelling evidence that casts doubt on that. With access to unpublished papers CLIVE OF INDIA illuminates the real man behind the myths for the first time.

Clive:The Life and Death od a British Emperor

Sceptre

Bonnie Prince Charlie

Convoy Publications

Abolitionist Leadership in Schools: Undoing Systemic Injustice Through Communally Conscious Education

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Routledge

"Abolitionist Leadership in Schools offers school and district leaders rich insights and approaches for recreating, restructuring, and reorienting their service to students, families, staff, and communities in crisis. Though often associated with sudden, large-scale disruptions, crises are ongoing matters-particularly among systemically-oppressed people-that underscore the planning voids, resource inequities, marginalizing policies, and strategic lapses of any teaching and learning community while perpetuating students' social-emotional, psychological, and pedagogical traumas. This expansive book guides school leaders to provide pre-emptive, premeditated, and progressive leadership while countering the impacts of racism that endure in our schools. Working from an abolitionist lineage, author Robert S. Harvey's radically humane vision explores lessons from our collective national past, provides strategic planning with creativities and contingencies, and fosters liberatory decision-making through accountability, communication, and more"--

For travellers and everyone interested in understanding the world's most turbulent and fascinating region, "Fire Down Below" is an up-to-date, vividly reported, nation-by-nation guide to Central and South America. In the tradition of John Gunther's "Inside Latin America", Robert Harvey's "Fire Down Under" reveals a volatile mixture of progress, poverty, dramatic history, and dangerous politics. Harvey, a former Latin American correspondent for "The Economist", combines his expertise as a reporter and political observer with insights from history, analyses of cultural and economic trends, interviews, and descriptive travel detail to explain the character of each nation - and the real state of Latin America today. He examines the issues and personalities behind the stories currently making news - from the turmoil in Nicaragua to the effects of the debt crisis - and recreates the rich cultures, exotic cities, and remarkable landscapes of each nation. Robert Harvey is also the author of an eyewitness account of Portugal's 1974-5 revolution, "Portugal: Birth of a Democracy" and is the editor of a book on British politics "Blueprint 2000".

Fire Down Below: A Journey of Exploration from Mexico to Chile

Americas

Simon&Schuster

The War of Independence was one of the founding events of today's world, but it has been simplified into a myth of liberty against oppression, right against wrong. A recent Hollywood film The Patriot, even borrowed atrocities from the Nazis and ascribed them to British redcoats.;In reality London was simply too distant to rule with a heavy hand. The Boston Tea Party notwithstanding, taxes were only an excuse for protest - they were routinely avoided. What angered settlers more was the law that stopped them seizing Indian land. Love of liberty ran deep, but economics and demography were the driving forces of revolution - and it challenged not just Britain but American's own social order. Far from being united in patriotism, American in 1776 was violently divided over independence. Conversely, many in Britain favoured it, especially in preference to bloodshed.;The war was marred by incompetence and bad faith on both sides. It was also close. Before Yorktown, the rebel generals thought they were losing. But they knew they could not be defeated in the long run, as much as 200 years later in a war of striking similarities, the Vietnamese knew the same.After the fighting, about eight per cent of Americans left the country. Following four years of misrule the Constitutional Convention imposed its own conservative counter-revolution, and from cunning, idealism and courage emerged the most powerful nation the world has yet seen.

A Few Bloody Noses : The American War of Independence

John Murray Publishers, Ltd.

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Clive: The Life and Death of a British Emperor

A Short History of Communism

The Undefeated: The Rise, Fall and Rise of Modern Japan

The Undefeated: The Rise, Fall and Rise of Greater Japan

Clive:The Life and Death od a British Emperor

Bonnie Prince Charlie

Abolitionist Leadership in Schools: Undoing Systemic Injustice Through Communally Conscious Education

Abolitionist Leadership in Schools: Undoing Systemic Injustice Through Communally Conscious Education

Fire Down Below: A Journey of Exploration from Mexico to Chile

A Few Bloody Noses : The American War of Independence