Empires in world history : power and the politics of difference
Empires - vast states of territories and peoples united by force and ambition - have dominated the political landscape for more than two millennia. This title departs from conventional European and nation-centered perspectives to take a look at how empires relied on diversity to shape the global order.
Print Book, English, 2010
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 2010
Doctorado
xiv, 511 páginas : ilustraciones, mapas ; 26 cm.
9780691152363, 9780691127088, 0691152365, 0691127085
964879994
Imperial trajectories
Imperial rule in Rome and China
After Rome : empire, Christianity, and Islam
Eurasian connections : the Mongol empires
Beyond the Mediterranean : Ottoman and Spanish empires
Oceanic economies and colonial societies : Europe, Asia, and the Americas
Beyond the steppe : empire-building in Russia and China
Empire, nation, and citizenship in a revolutionary age
Empires across continents : the United States and Russia
Imperial repertoires and myths of modern colonialism
Sovereignty and empire : nineteenth-century Europe and its near abroad
War and revolution in a world of empires, 1914 to 1945
End of empire?
Empires, states, and political imagination