Empires /

"The analysis of the causes and patterns of imperialism has long been a difficult academic exercise. ... To structure this far-ranging phenomenon and arrange its course in a concise, interpretive essay takes pluck, if a good adjective from the derring-do novels of empire may be used here. Micha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Doyle, Michael W., 1948- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 1986.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Imperialisme.
Histoire.
Empire.
Imperialismo.
Geschichte
Imperialismus
Imperialism.
HISTORY > World.
Imperialisme > Histoire.
Imperialism > History.
Afrika
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Imperialism and empire
  • Introduction
  • Athens and Sparta : empire and hegemony
  • Rome
  • The Ottoman, Spanish, and English empires
  • The sociology of empires : hypotheses
  • Introduction to Part 2
  • Tribal peripheries and formal empire
  • Patrimonal peripheries and informal empire
  • The international system and nineteenth-century imperialism
  • Greater Britain
  • France, Germany, and Spain
  • The politics of nineenth-century imperialism
  • Imperial development : the end of empire?

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