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Krishan Kumar

Visions of Empire

How Five Imperial Regimes Shaped the World

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The empires of the past were far-flung experiments in multinationalism and multiculturalism, and have much to teach us about navigating our own increasingly globalized and interconnected world. Until now, most recent scholarship on empires has focused on their subject peoples. Visions of Empire looks at their rulers, shedding critical new light on who they were, how they justified their empires, how they viewed themselves, and the styles of rule they adopted toward their subjects. Krishan Kumar provides panoramic and multifaceted portraits of five major European empires--Ottoman, Habsburg, Russian/Soviet, British, and French--showing how each… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-691-15363-6
  • EAN: 9780691153636
  • Produktnummer: 18650895
  • Verlag: Princeton Univers. Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 576 S.
  • Masse: H24.4 cm x B16.1 cm x D5.3 cm 1'124 g
  • Abbildungen: 33 illus.
  • Gewicht: 1124

Über den Autor


Krishan Kumar is University Professor and William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. His books include The Idea of Englishness: English Culture, National Identity, and Social Thought; From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society: New Theories of the Contemporary World; and 1989: Revolutionary Ideas and Ideals.

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