The Structure of Nations and Empires
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 328
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Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 328
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Published: 1977
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joseph Esherick
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780742540316
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollowing a hit and run that injures his son, John Spector is shocked when the driver comes forward to confess the accident was planned and that John made the arrangements. Upset by the suggestion, he embarks on a quest that will take him through the bizarre underbelly of the city in search of the truth. Even when faced with demons bent on stopping him, haunted by dreams of a man he's never met or sidelined by concerns for his mental health, John remains unshakable. Only after his path leads to the philanthropist Charles Dapper does his determination waver, for this is when he must make an extraordinary self sacrifice to realize his goal or risk losing everything.
Author: Joseph W. Esherick
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2006-05-04
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 0742578151
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fall of empires and the rise of nation-states was a defining political transition in the making of the modern world. As United States imperialism becomes a popular focus of debate, we must understand how empire, the nineteenth century's dominant form of large-scale political organization, had disappeared by the end of the twentieth century. Here, ten prominent specialists discuss the empire-to-nation transition in comparative perspective. Chapters on Latin America, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Russia, and China illustrate both the common features and the diversity of the transition. Questioning the sharpness of the break implied by the empire/nation binary, the contributors explore the many ways in which empires were often nation-like and nations behaved imperially. While previous studies have focused on the rise and fall of empires or on nationalism and the process of nation-building, this intriguing volume concentrates on the empire-to-nation transition itself. Understanding this transition allows us to better interpret the contemporary political order and new forms of global hegemony.
Author: Francine Hirsch
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2014-10-03
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 0801455944
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917, they set themselves the task of building socialism in the vast landscape of the former Russian Empire, a territory populated by hundreds of different peoples belonging to a multitude of linguistic, religious, and ethnic groups. Before 1917, the Bolsheviks had called for the national self-determination of all peoples and had condemned all forms of colonization as exploitative. After attaining power, however, they began to express concern that it would not be possible for Soviet Russia to survive without the cotton of Turkestan and the oil of the Caucasus. In an effort to reconcile their anti-imperialist position with their desire to hold on to as much territory as possible, the Bolsheviks integrated the national idea into the administrative-territorial structure of the new Soviet state. In Empire of Nations, Francine Hirsch examines the ways in which former imperial ethnographers and local elites provided the Bolsheviks with ethnographic knowledge that shaped the very formation of the new Soviet Union. The ethnographers—who drew inspiration from the Western European colonial context—produced all-union censuses, assisted government commissions charged with delimiting the USSR's internal borders, led expeditions to study "the human being as a productive force," and created ethnographic exhibits about the "Peoples of the USSR." In the 1930s, they would lead the Soviet campaign against Nazi race theories . Hirsch illuminates the pervasive tension between the colonial-economic and ethnographic definitions of Soviet territory; this tension informed Soviet social, economic, and administrative structures. A major contribution to the history of Russia and the Soviet Union, Empire of Nations also offers new insights into the connection between ethnography and empire.
Author: Jane Burbank
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2011-07-05
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 0691152365
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBurbank and Cooper examine Rome and China from the third century BCE, empires that sustained state power for centuries.
Author: Peter Turchin
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9780452288195
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArgues that the key to the formation of an empire lies in a society's capacity for collective action, resulting from people banding together to confront a common enemy, and describing how the growth of empires leads to a growing dichotomy between rich and poor, increasing conflict instead of cooperation, and inevitable dissolution. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
Author: Karen Barkey
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-05-15
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 0429973853
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together a group of some of the most outstanding scholars in political science, history, and historical sociology to examine the causes of imperial decline and collapse of the Russian, Ottoman, and Habsburg empires.
Author: Logan Marshall
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Published: 2004-06-01
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ISBN-13: 9781419201677
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