Collects Incoming (2019) #1, Road to Empyre: The Kree/Skrull War (2020) #1, Empyre Handbook (2020) #1. Get ready for EMPYRE — the cosmic saga set to rock the Avengers, the Fantastic Four and the entire Marvel Universe! A mysterious murder brings together an army of heroes in the search for a killer — setting the stage for the conflicts to come! When everything suddenly changes for the Kree and Skrull empires, the Warner family from MEET THE SKRULLS is left out in the cold on Earth. They need to work out how this cosmic crisis affects the future of their family — and their race! And that means Mom educating her kids on just how the Kree and the Skrulls first went to war! Plus: Get all the facts on the major players in this epic event with the official handbook to EMPYRE!

From the late seventeenth century to the late eighteenth century, the Sikh community transformed from a relatively insignificant religious minority to an elevated position of kingship and empire. Under the leadership of Guru Gobind Singh (1661–1708), Sikh elites and peasants began to align themselves with discourses of power and authority, and within a few decades Khalsa Sikh warriors conquered some of the wealthiest provinces of the Mughal and Afghan empires. In this book, Satnam Singh argues that the Sikhs’ increasing self-assertion was not simply a reaction to Mughal persecution but also a result of an active program initiated by the Guru to pursue larger visions of scholarship, conquest, and political sovereignty. Using a vast trove of understudied court literature, Singh shows how Sikhs grappled with Indo-Islamic traditions to forge their own unique ideas of governance and kingship with the aim to establish an independent Sikh polity. The Road to Empire offers an impressive intellectual history of the early modern Sikh world.

America's Road to Empire surveys and analyses United States' foreign relations from the country's independence in 1776 until its entry into World War One in 1917, using primary source materials and case studies. The book covers key themes including: - the role that notions of "white superiority" played in US foreign policy - the search for absolute security that repeatedly led the United States to trample on the liberties of other countries; - and the idea of American 'exceptionalism' – the clash between the idealism of US rhetoric and its actions – which has led to a persistent failure to understand how “European” U.S. policy actually was. Whilst providing analytical overview, Piero Gleijeses also uses case studies which examine overlooked aspects of U.S. foreign policy, particularly concerning marginalized populations. He draws on archival U.S. and European primary sources and incorporates the latest research from the US, British, French and Spanish archives, as well as newspapers from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Spain, and Mexico. A highly original account of the United States' rise to power drawing on multilingual scholarship, this is an important book for all students and scholars of United States foreign relations up to the First World War.

How did a barren, thinly populated country, somewhat isolated from the rest of Europe become the world's first superpower? Henry Kamen's tremendous new book takes full advantage of its great theme to recreate the dazzling world of militant Castile from the fall of Moorish Granada and Columbus' first voyage to the imperial collapse over three centuries later. There is no better account in English of this immense, brutal adventure - a ceaseless quest for land, gold and slaves that made Spain, both for its conquered peoples and much of the rest of Europe, into a rapacious nightmare.

With the tide of war turned, Conan's armies invade Nemedia, arch-enemy of Conan's kingdom of Aquilonia. As the brutal siege commences, the greatest threat to Conan is not Nemedian sinew or steel, but the steeled heart of a boy raised in the black arts and dedicated to Conan's destruction. That boy is none other than Taurus, Conan's own lost son! Collects Marvel's Conan the King #36-#40, never before reprinted.

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Popular belief has it that the US went to war with Spain for specious reasons and that, except for the hysteria engendered by the "Yellow Press," the Cuban problem could have been settled peacefully. Professor Morgan argues that the administrations of Cleveland and McKinley pursued a logical course aimed at removing Spain from Cuba by diplomatic means, but that their plan failed because of Spanish inability to reform the island and end the devestating guerilla warfare.