Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its PredecessorsHarvard University Press, 2006. ápr. 24. - 384 oldal Contemporary America, with its unparalleled armaments and ambition, seems to many commentators a new empire. Others angrily reject the designation. What stakes would being an empire have for our identity at home and our role abroad? |
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... colony , oversaw Cuba as a protectorate , and took over a few small islands in the Caribbean and Pacific : otherwise it has remained within its continental borders . The land from sea to sea seemed empire enough to most of Jefferson's ...
... colony " or , in spatial terms , the " periphery " ) . Some colonies are remote and overseas , some are spatially contiguous to the core territory . Sometimes the elites are recruited only after military conquest . Indeed , in ...
... colonies . Empires seek to defend in- ternal sociopolitical frontiers as well as external boundaries . They do not always succeed ; sometimes they make stabilization more elusive . Still , empires remain , in effect , simultaneously ...
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