Ending Empire : : Contested Sovereignty and Territorial Partition /

Ending Empire : : Contested Sovereignty and Territorial Partition / / Hendrik Spruyt.

At the dawn of the twentieth century, imperial powers controlled most of the globe. Within a few decades after World War II, many of the great empires had dissolved, and more recently, multinational polities have similarly disbanded. This process of reallocating patterns of authority, from internal...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Spruyt, Hendrik,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2005
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Cornell Studies in Political Economy
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Physical Description:1 online resource (326 p.) :; 7 tables, 3 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Maps And Tables
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Contested Territories And Empire
  • Chapter One.Institutional Frameworks And Territorial Policy
  • Chapter Two.The Changing Fortunes Of Empire
  • Chapter Three.The Hexagon Or The Empire: France And The Algerian Quagmire
  • Chapter Four.Whitehall Tacks To The Wind Of Change
  • Chapter Five.Ranking With Denmark: The Dutch Fear Of Imperial Retreat
  • Chapter Six.The First Maritime Empire And The Last: Portugal In Africa
  • Chapter Seven.Russia Retreats From The Union
  • Chapter Eight.The Fourth Republic In Jerusalem
  • Conclusion: Contesting Sovereignty In A Global System
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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