Legacies of Empire (eBook, ePUB)

Imperial Roots of the Contemporary Global Order
Redaktion: Halperin, Sandra

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The nation-state is a fairly recent historical phenomenon. Human history over the past two to four millennia has been dominated by empires, and the legacies of these empires continues to shape the contemporary world in ways that are not always recognised or fully understood. Much research and writing about European colonial empires has focused on relations between them and their colonies. This book examines the phenomenon of empire from a different perspective. It explores the imprint that imperial institutions, organisational principles, practices, and logics have left on the modern world. It shows that many features of the contemporary world - modern armies, multiculturalism, globalised finance, modern city-states, the United Nations - have been profoundly shaped by past empires. It also applies insights about the impact of past empires to contemporary politics and considers the long-term institutional legacies of the American 'empire'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316349540
• Artikelnr.: 52863579

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: legacies of empire Sandra Halperin and Ronen Palan; Part
I. Incomplete Transitions from Empires to Nation-States: 2. Political
military legacies of empire in world politics Tarak Barkawi; 3. The second
British Empire and the re-emergence of global finance Ronen Palan; 4.
Imperial city-states, national states, and post-national spatialities
Sandra Halperin; Part II. Legacies of Non-European Empires in Today's
World: 5. The legacy of Eurasian nomadic empires: remnants of the Mongol
imperial tradition Einar Wigen and Iver B. Neumann; 6. The modern roots of
feudal empires: the donatory captaincies and the legacies of the Portuguese
Empire in Brazil Benjamin De Carvalho; 7. Imperial legacies in the United
Nations development program, and the UN development system Craig N. Murphy;
Part III. The Future Legacies of the American Empire: 8. Foreign bases,
sovereignty and nation-building after empire: the United States in
comparative perspective Alexander Cooley; 9. Empire, capital and a legacy
of endogenous multiculturalism Herman Schwartz; 10. The assemblage of
American imperium: hybrid power, world war and world government(ality) in
the twenty-first century Ronnie D. Lipschutz; 11. Conclusion Sandra
Halperin and Ronen Palan.