Peoples and Empires
Subtitle: A Short History of European Migration, Exploration, and Conquest, from Greece to the Present (Modern Library Chronicles)
Series: Modern Library Chronicles
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: April 24, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780679640967
Subjects: Migrations of nations; History: World; Colonies And Colonization; History - General History; World - Colonial Studies; Mediterranean Region; Europe - General; History / Europe / General; Emigration And Immigration; Germanic peoples; History
First sentence: The story of the empires of the peoples of Europe begins in ancient Greece.
Description: "Anthony Pagden tells the story of the great empires of the West, from the days of Alexander the Great and Rome to the fall of Europe's colonial system after World War II.".

"Peoples and Empires explains how Europe's great colonial enterprises exploded across the world at the time and in the manner that they did, connects them in a mosaic of cause and effect, teases out their similarities and significant differences, and follows the waxing and waning tides of their fortunes.

Pagden assesses how Europe made sense of the "New World"; how it integrated slavery into its economic framework and to what ends; and how, again and again, it found new ways of convincing itself that subjecting other peoples to its rule was an act of great generosity and kindness. Finally, he shows how the Age of Empire, at least as traditionally understood, came to an end, leaving conquerors and subjects changed beyond all recognition."--BOOK JACKET.