Empires in world history
Subtitle: power and the politics of difference
By: Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper.
Contributors: Cooper, Frederick, 1947-
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780691127088
Subjects: World history; World politics; Imperialism -- History; Colonization -- History; Colonies -- History; Power (Social sciences) -- History; Difference (Philosophy) -- Political aspects -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Imperial trajectories; title: Imperial rule in Rome and China; title: After Rome : empire, Christianity, and Islam; title: Eurasian connections : the Mongol empires; title: Beyond the Mediterranean : Ottoman and Spanish empires; title: Merchant empires, oceanic economies, and colonial societies : Europe, Asia, and the Americas; title: Beyond the steppe : empire-building in Russia and China; title: Empire, nation, and citizenship in a revolutionary age; title: Empires across continents : the United States and Russia; title: Imperial repertoires and the myth of modern colonialism; title: Sovereignty and empire : 19th-century Europe and its near abroad; title: War and revolution in a world of empires, 1914 to 1945; title: End of empire?; title: Empires, states, and political imagination.