Visions Of Empire
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Visions of Empire
Author: Krishan Kumar
language: en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date: 2019-08-06
"In this extraordinary volume, Krishan Kumar provides us with a brilliant tour of some of history's most important empires, demonstrating the critical importance of imperial ideas and ideologies for understanding their modalities of rule and the conflicts that beset them. In doing so, he interrogates the contested terrain between nationalism and empire and the legacies that empires leave behind."--Mark R. Beissinger, Princeton University "This is an excellent book with original insights into the history of empires and the discourses and rhetoric of their rulers and defenders. Kumar's writing is lively and free of jargon, and his research is prodigious. He manages to bring clarity and perspective to a complex subject."--Ronald Grigor Suny, author of "They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide "A masterly piece of work."--Anthony Pagden, author of The Burdens of Empire: 1539 to the Present
Visions of Empire
Author: David Philip Miller
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2011-07-21
Richly illustrated 1996 collection on how Pacific plants and peoples were depicted by European explorers.
Competing Visions of Empire
Author: Abigail L. Swingen
language: en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date: 2015-01-01
This title explores the connections between the origins of the English empire and unfree labour by exploring how England's imperial designs influenced contemporary politics and debates about labour, population, political economy, and overseas trade. It pays particular attention to how and why slavery and England's participation in the transatlantic slave trade came to be widely accepted as central to the national and imperial interest by contributing to the idea that colonies with slaves were essential for the functioning of the empire.