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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... 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 govern their ...
... territory . Sometimes the elites are recruited only after military conquest . Indeed , in particularly brutal empires , such as that of Nazi Germany or Stalin's Soviet Union , the former elites of some territories might be totally ...
... territorial limits , or limes , to use the Roman term for its far - flung borders . Every empire needs fron- tiers , if only to show how limitless its power remains within them . And enforcing the frontiers is a matter not only of ideas ...
... Territorial frontiers are not the only boundaries that empires estab- lish . Crucial , too , for the structure of an empire is the stratification within each of its political units — that is , inside the metropole as well as within the ...
... territories that we have conquered ... This is the desperate moment in which we discover that this empire which seemed to us the sum of all wonders is a defeat without end or form , that the rot is already too gangrenous for our scepter ...