Imperial expectations and realities, 

Автор: Wang, Yuhua
Название: Rise and Fall of Imperial China
ISBN: 0691215170 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691215174
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: How social networks shaped the imperial Chinese stateChina was the world's leading superpower for almost two millennia, falling behind only in the last two centuries and now rising to dominance again. What factors led to imperial China's decline? The Rise and Fall of Imperial China offers a systematic look at the Chinese state from the seventh century through to the twentieth. Focusing on how short-lived emperors often ruled a strong state while long-lasting emperors governed a weak one, Yuhua Wang shows why lessons from China's history can help us better understand state building.

Wang argues that Chinese rulers faced a fundamental trade-off that he calls the sovereign's dilemma: a coherent elite that could collectively strengthen the state could also overthrow the ruler. This dilemma emerged because strengthening state capacity and keeping rulers in power for longer required different social networks in which central elites were embedded. Wang examines how these social networks shaped the Chinese state, and vice versa, and he looks at how the ruler's pursuit of power by fragmenting the elites became the final culprit for China's fall.

Drawing on more than a thousand years of Chinese history, The Rise and Fall of Imperial China highlights the role of elite social relations in influencing the trajectories of state development.

Автор: Sanborn, Joshua A.
Название: Imperial Apocalypse: The Great War & The Destruction of the Russian Empire
ISBN: 0199642052 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199642052
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: A unique study which uses the collapse of Tsarist Russia and its consequences to argue that the events on the often-forgotten Eastern Front of WWI had a stronger impact on the outcome of the war than is usually accepted.

Автор: Laura Engelstein
Название: Slavophile Empire
ISBN: 0801475929 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801475924
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Twentieth-century Russia, in all its political incarnations, lacked the basic features of the Western liberal model: the rule of law, civil society, and an uncensored public sphere. In Slavophile Empire, the leading historian Laura Engelstein pays particular attention to the Slavophiles and their heirs, whose aversion to the secular individualism of the West and embrace of an idealized version of the native past established a pattern of thinking that had an enduring impact on Russian political life. Imperial Russia did not lack for partisans of Western-style liberalism, but they were outnumbered, to the right and to the left, by those who favored illiberal options.

In the book's rigorously argued chapters, Engelstein asks how Russia's identity as a cultural nation at the core of an imperial state came to be defined in terms of this antiliberal consensus. She examines debates on religion and secularism, on the role of culture and the law under a traditional regime presiding over a modernizing society, on the status of the empire's ethnic peripheries, and on the spirit needed to mobilize a multinational empire in times of war. These debates, she argues, did not predetermine the kind of system that emerged after 1917, but they foreshadowed elements of a political culture that are still in evidence today.

Автор: Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper
Название: Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia
ISBN: 0691250375 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691250373
Издательство: Wiley
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Название: Curating empire. 2016
ISBN: 1784993468 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784993467
Издательство: INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES UK
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Описание: Curating empire explores the diverse roles played by museums and their curators in moulding and representing the British imperial experience. This collection demonstrates how individuals, their curatorial practices, and intellectual and political agendas influenced the development of a variety of museums across the globe. -- .

Автор: Judd, Denis
Название: Empire: British Imperial Experience from 1765 to Present
ISBN: 1848859953 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781848859951
Издательство: I B Tauris
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Описание: Analyses the sweep of the British colonial story, from the American Revolution to the present day, illustrating the influence of Britain`s imperial past on her place in the twenty-first century. This book is suitable for those who are interested in understanding modern Britain and its imperial history.

Автор: Urena Valerio, Lenny A.
Название: Colonial fantasies, imperial realities
ISBN: 082142453X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780821424537
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Urena Valerio illuminates nested imperial and colonial relations using sources ranging from medical texts and state documents to travel literature and fiction. She analyzes scientific and medical debates to connect medicine, migration, and colonialism, providing an invigorating model for the analysis of Polish history from a global perspective.

Автор: Gerard Farrell
Название: The `Mere Irish` and the Colonisation of Ulster, 1570-1641
ISBN: 3319593625 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319593623
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Central to this argument is that the Ulster plantation bears more comparisons to European expansion throughout the Atlantic than (as some historians have argued) the early-modern state`s consolidation of control over its peripheral territories.

Автор: Lenny A. Urena Valerio
Название: Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840–1920
ISBN: 0821423738 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780821423738
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Urena Valerio illuminates nested imperial and colonial relations using sources ranging from medical texts and state documents to travel literature and fiction. She analyzes scientific and medical debates to connect medicine, migration, and colonialism, providing an invigorating model for the analysis of Polish history from a global perspective.

Автор: Fradera Josep
Название: The Imperial Nation: Citizens and Subjects in the British, French, Spanish, and American Empires
ISBN: 0691217343 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691217345
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Описание: How the legacy of monarchical empires shaped Britain, France, Spain, and the United States as they became liberal entitiesHistorians view the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as a turning point when imperial monarchies collapsed and modern nations emerged. Treating this pivotal moment as a bridge rather than a break, The Imperial Nation offers a sweeping examination of four of these modern powers-Great Britain, France, Spain, and the United States-and asks how, after the great revolutionary cycle in Europe and America, the history of monarchical empires shaped these new nations. Josep Fradera explores this transition, paying particular attention to the relations between imperial centers and their sovereign territories and the constant and changing distinctions placed between citizens and subjects.

Fradera argues that the essential struggle that lasted from the Seven Years' War to the twentieth century was over the governance of dispersed and varied peoples: each empire tried to ensure domination through subordinate representation or by denying any representation at all. The most common approach echoed Napoleon's "special laws," which allowed France to reinstate slavery in its Caribbean possessions. The Spanish and Portuguese constitutions adopted "specialness" in the 1830s; the United States used comparable guidelines to distinguish between states, territories, and Indian reservations; and the British similarly ruled their dominions and colonies.

In all these empires, the mix of indigenous peoples, European-origin populations, slaves and indentured workers, immigrants, and unassimilated social groups led to unequal and hierarchical political relations. Fradera considers not only political and constitutional transformations but also their social underpinnings. Presenting a fresh perspective on the ways in which nations descended and evolved from and throughout empires, The Imperial Nation highlights the ramifications of this entangled history for the subjects who lived in its shadows.

Название: Russia in Asia
ISBN: 0367357119 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367357115
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This edited volume presents new research on Russian-Asian connections by historians, art historians, literary scholars, and linguists. Its interdisciplinary approach to the topic challenges readers to synthesize multiple analytical lenses to better understand the multivalent connections binding Russia and Asia together.

Автор: Tyner, James A.
Название: The Philippines
ISBN: 0415958075 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415958073
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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