Full name: Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference

Authors: Jane Burbank, Frederick Cooper Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780691127088 9780691152363 0691127085 0691152365

Empires--vast states of territories and peoples united by force and ambition--have dominated the political landscape for more than two millennia. Empires in World History departs from conventional European and nation-centered perspectives to take a remarkable look at how empires relied on diversity to shape the global order. Beginning with ancient Rome and China and continuing across Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Africa, Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper examine empires' conquests, rivalries, and strategies of domination--with an emphasis on how empires accommodated, created, and manipulated differences among populations. Burbank and Cooper examine Rome and China from the third century BCE, empires that sustained state power for centuries. They delve into the militant monotheism of Byzantium, the Islamic Caliphates, and the short-lived Carolingians, as well as the pragmatically tolerant rule of the Mongols and Ottomans, who combined religious protection with the politics of loyalty. Burbank and Cooper discuss the influence of empire on capitalism and popular sovereignty, the limitations and instability of Europe's colonial projects, Russia's repertoire of exploitation and differentiation, as well as the "empire of liberty"--devised by American revolutionaries and later extended across a continent and beyond. With its investigation into the relationship between diversity and imperial states, Empires in World History offers a fresh approach to understanding the impact of empires on the past and present. Similar books: After Tamerlane by John Darwin World History For Dummies by Peter Haugen A Short History of the World by J. M. Roberts Day of Empire by Amy Chua The Human Web by J. R. McNeill The Rise of the West by William H. McNeill Millennium by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto The Outline of History by H. G. Wells The Origins of the Modern World by Robert B. Marks A History of Civilizations by Fernand Braudel 1688 by John E. Wills History by Adam Hart-Davis Asimov's Chronology of the World by Isaac Asimov The Birth of the Modern World by Christopher Bayly The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon Dead Wake by Erik Larson One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer The History of Jihad by Robert Spencer