Contesting Empires
Subtitle: Opposition, Promotion, and Slavery
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 27, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781403964533
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); World history; World - General; History: World; European - General; History; History - General History; World - Colonial Studies; Empires & historical states; Europe; Imperialism; Slavery; History / Civilization; America; Colonies; Territorial expansion
First sentence: Contesting Empires focuses on the "contesting of empire," that is the contest or agon of establishing an empire or being first among empires and the contest against, or opposition to, empire.