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Empires in world history : power and the politics of difference / Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper.

By: Burbank, Jane.
Contributor(s): Cooper, Frederick, 1947-.
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2010Description: xiv, 511 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.ISBN: 9780691152363 (pbk.); 9780691127088 (hbk.); 0691127085 (hbk.).Subject(s): World history | World politics | Imperialism -- History | Colonization -- History | Colonies -- History | Power (Social sciences) -- History | Difference (Philosophy) -- Political aspects -- HistoryDDC classification: 909
Contents:
Imperial trajectories -- Imperial rule in Rome and China -- After Rome : empire, Christianity, and Islam -- Eurasian connections : the Mongol empires -- Beyond the Mediterranean : Ottoman and Spanish empires -- Oceanic economies and colonial societies : Europe, Asia, and the Americas -- Beyond the steppe : empire-building in Russia and China -- Empire, nation, and citizenship in a revolutionary age -- Empires across continents : the United States and Russia -- Imperial repertoires and myths of modern colonialism -- Sovereignty and empire : nineteenth-century Europe and its near abroad -- War and revolution in a world of empires, 1914 to 1945 -- End of empire? -- Empires, states, and political imagination.
Awards: Winner of the 2011 World History Association Book Prize
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Imperial trajectories -- Imperial rule in Rome and China -- After Rome : empire, Christianity, and Islam -- Eurasian connections : the Mongol empires -- Beyond the Mediterranean : Ottoman and Spanish empires -- Oceanic economies and colonial societies : Europe, Asia, and the Americas -- Beyond the steppe : empire-building in Russia and China -- Empire, nation, and citizenship in a revolutionary age -- Empires across continents : the United States and Russia -- Imperial repertoires and myths of modern colonialism -- Sovereignty and empire : nineteenth-century Europe and its near abroad -- War and revolution in a world of empires, 1914 to 1945 -- End of empire? -- Empires, states, and political imagination.

Winner of the 2011 World History Association Book Prize