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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... rule most of their territory according to one encompassing authoritarian regime , which may , however , allow enclaves of semi- autonomy . Nations that have empires rule their possessions abroad by authoritarian methods while they often ...
... rule of law or defending what we have defined as freedom . But they are also about violence and blood- shed . Historians will rightly resist generalization as an impediment to understanding . But at the beginning it is worth recalling ...
... rule that transforms society at home even as it stabilizes inequality transnationally by replicating it geographically , in the core and on the periphery . In return it promises to make even the 20 RECURRING STRUCTURES.
... rule , often with enthusiasm . Remember Mafeking Night : the explosion of populist celebration in 1900 when the British escaped defeat at the hands of the Boers ; recall the rituals and the results of Hitler's plebiscites . These were ...
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