Böcker av Brian Rouleau

Could you survive waking up alone in a vast and deadly desert?Moments ago, Jane's biggest worries were unpaid bills and finding a job. Now, she must use all her cunning, along with her new, mysterious powers, to survive the desolate and scorching sands. No food. No water. No answers. Jane's battle for survival in this unfamiliar land has just begun... Hunted by the savage beasts of the desert, it's only a matter of time before Jane either adapts to the world around her or ends up as another skeleton rotting in the blistering sun. But what chance does a modern woman have in the endless dunes, dressed only in her pajamas? About the series: Judicator Jane is an isekai (portal fantasy) LitRPG set in an expansive universe rich with history. The forces of good and evil stand at the precipice of apocalypse. Will Jane find the answers she seeks? Or will the unforgiving world, harsh trials, and the burden of carrying a horrific power corrupt her innocent spirit?

How children and children¿s literature helped build Americäs empireAmericäs empire was not made by adults alone. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, young people became essential to its creation. Through children¿s literature, authors instilled the idea of Americäs power and the importance of its global prominence. As kids eagerly read dime novels, series fiction, pulp magazines, and comic books that dramatized the virtues of empire, they helped entrench a growing belief in Americäs indispensability to the international order.Empires more generally require stories to justify their existence. Children¿s literature seeded among young people a conviction that their country¿s command of a continent (and later the world) was essential to global stability. This genre allowed ardent imperialists to obscure their aggressive agendas with a veneer of harmlessness or fun. The supposedly nonthreatening nature of the child and children¿s literature thereby helped to disguise dominion¿s unsavory nature.The modern era has been called both the ¿American Century¿ and the ¿Century of the Child.¿ Brian Rouleau illustrates how those conceptualizations came together by depicting children in their influential role as the junior partners of US imperial enterprise.

Brian Rouleau argues that because of their ubiquity in foreign ports, American sailors were the principal agents of overseas foreign relations in the early republic.