Among Empires
Subtitle: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: September 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780674025561
Subjects: Imperialism; History; Politics / Current Events; History: American; USA; History & Theory - General; International Relations - General; United States - General; World - Colonial Studies; History / United States / 20th Century; Europe - General; General; United States - 20th Century
First sentence: Empires are about civilizing missions, the diffusion of cultural styles, the propagation of world religions, the suppression of practices perceived as barbaricsuch as human sacrifice and suttee.