Visions of Empire

How Five Imperial Regimes Shaped the World

Kumar, Krishan

Krishan Kumar provides panoramic and multifaceted portraits of five major European empires--Ottoman, Habsburg, Russian/Soviet, British, and French--showing how each, like ancient Rome, saw itself as the carrier of universal civilization to the rest of the world.

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Beschrijving Visions of Empire

In this extraordinary volume, Kumar provides readers 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.

ISBN: 9780691192802
Pagina's: 600
Verschenen: 01-01-2019
NUR: 680

Druk: 1
Uitvoering: Paperback / softback
Taal: Engels
Uitgever: Princeton University Press

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