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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... land of temperate climate and great rivers and forests . They pre- dicted little serious resistance from the sparse native population , and they were confident of achieving eventual parity with the European powers . They believed the ...
... land from sea to sea seemed empire enough to most of Jefferson's generation , although a few aspired to Canada or Cuba . Nonetheless , once acquired and incor- porated during the nineteenth century , the continental United States no ...
... land masses , resulting sometimes in tighter control , sometimes in more autonomy . Bismarck's Germany governed Alsace - Lorraine and Prussian Poland under principles and practices different from those by which it ruled Bavaria ; Qing ...
... lands abroad by conquest . And it does not mean just the imposition of authoritarian regimes on overseas territories . Empire is a form of political organization in which the social elements that rule in the dominant state — the ...
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