Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference
Title | Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 2010 |
Authors | Burbank, Jane, and Frederick Cooper |
Number of Pages | 511 |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
City | Princeton, NJ |
Abstract | Empires—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-centered perspectives to take a remarkable look at how empires relied on diversity to shape the global order. Beginning with ancient Rome and China and continuing across Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Africa, Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper examine empires' conquests, rivalries, and strategies of domination—with an emphasis on how empires accommodated, created, and manipulated differences among populations. Examining premodern empires from Rome and China through Byzantium and the Caliphates, Burbank and Cooper turn to the modern era to discuss the influence of empire on capitalism and popular sovereignty, the limitations and instability of Europe's colonial projects, Russia's repertoire of exploitation and differentiation, as well as the "empire of liberty"—devised by American revolutionaries and later extended across a continent and beyond. With its investigation into the relationship between diversity and imperial states, Empires in World History offers a fresh approach to understanding the impact of empires on the past and present. (Adapted from publisher's description) |
URL | https://books.google.com/books?id=y7B9euuLEkUC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ViewAPI#v=onepage&q&f=false |
Short Title | Empires in World History |
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Major Wars:
- Habsburg-Ottoman Wars (1683-1718)
- American Colonial Wars (1689-1763)
- American Revolutionary Wars (1775-83)
- French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1792-1815)
- Latin American Wars of Independence (1810-30)
- -German Wars of Unification (1864, 1866, 1870–71)
- -Imperial Conquest of Africa (1880-1914)
- -Russo-Japanese War (1904-05)
- First World War (1914-19)
- Second World War (1939-45)
- -African Wars for Independence (1952–)
Regions:
- Africa
- -Central Africa
- -North Africa
- -Southern Africa
- America
- -the Caribbean
- -South America
- -North America
- -Central America
- Global Connections
- Transatlantic Connections
- Near and Middle East
- Asia
- -Central Asia
- -East Asia
- -South Asia
- -South-East Asia
- -Central Europe
- Europe
- -Eastern Europe including Russia
- -Southern Europe
- -South-Eastern Europe
- -Northern Europe
- -Western Europe
Chapters:
- Introduction: Gender and the History of War
- 9. War and Gender: Nineteenth-Century Wars of Nations and Empires—An Overview
- 12. Imperial Conquest, Violent Encounters and Changing Gender Relations in Colonial Warfare, 1830s–1910s
- 1. War and Gender: From The Thirty Years War and Colonial Conquest to the Wars of Revolution and Independence—An Overview
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- WorldCat