Empires in World History : : Power and the Politics of Difference /

Empires in World History : : Power and the Politics of Difference / / Frederick Cooper, Jane Burbank.

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How empires have used diversity to shape the world order for more than two millenniaEmpires—vast states of territories and peoples united by force and ambition—have dominated the political landscape for more than two millennia. Empires in World History departs from conventional European and nation-c...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Burbank, Jane,
Cooper, Frederick,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
©2011
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (528 p.) :; 44 halftones. 34 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • PREFACE
  • 1 Imperial Trajectories
  • 2 Imperial Rule in Rome and China
  • 3 After Rome: Empire, Christianity, and Islam
  • 4 Eurasian Connections: The Mongol Empires
  • 5 Beyond the Mediterranean: Ottoman and Spanish Empires
  • 6 Oceanic Economies and Colonial Societies: Europe, Asia, and the Americas
  • 7 Beyond the Steppe: Empire-Building in Russia and China
  • 8 Empire, Nation, and Citizenship in a Revolutionary Age
  • 9 Empires across Continents: The United States and Russ
  • 10 Imperial Repertoires and Myths of Modern Colonialism
  • 11 Sovereignty and Empire: Nineteenth-Century Europe and Its Near Abroad
  • 12 War and Revolution in a World of Empires: 1914 to 1945
  • 13 End of Empire?
  • 14 Empires, States, and Political Imagination
  • Suggested Reading and Citations
  • Index

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