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Abbasid Caliphate
Abolitionism
Advanced capitalism
Articles of Confederation
Austria-Hungary
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Balkan Wars
British Empire
Caliphate
Capitalism
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Central Asia
Christianity
Citizenship
City-state
Clash of Civilizations
Colonial empire
Colonial war
Colonialism
Colonization
Decolonization
Empire-building
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Great power
Holy Roman Empire
Hong Taiji
House of Habsburg
Ideology
Imperial Ambitions
Imperial Army (Holy Roman Empire)
Imperial cult (ancient Rome)
Imperial Government
Imperial State
Imperialism
Indigenous peoples
Industrialisation
Institution
Islam
Kublai Khan
Mahmud II
Mongols
Muslims (nationality)
Napoleon
Napoleon III
Nation state
Nobility
Ottoman dynasty
Ottoman Empire
Peasant
Political history of the world
Political machine
Politics
Popular sovereignty
Radicalism (historical)
Roman Empire
Ruler
Russian Empire
Russians
Settler colonialism
Slavery
Southeast Asia
Sovereignty
Soviet Union
The Course of Empire
Timur
Trade route
War
War economy
World communism
World history
World War I
World War II
Xiongnu
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- ISBN 9780691152363
- Weight: 1106g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 25 Jul 2011
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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. Burbank and Cooper examine Rome and China from the third century BCE, empires that sustained state power for centuries. They delve into the militant monotheism of Byzantium, the Islamic Caliphates, and the short-lived Carolingians, as well as the pragmatically tolerant rule of the Mongols and Ottomans, who combined religious protection with the politics of loyalty.
Burbank and Cooper 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.
Jane Burbank is professor of history and Russian and Slavic studies at New York University. Her books include "Intelligentsia and Revolution" and "Russian Peasants Go to Court". Frederick Cooper is professor of history at New York University. His books include "Decolonization and African Society" and "Colonialism in Question".
