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Legacies of Empire: Imperial Roots of the Contemporary Global Order

Editat de Sandra Halperin, Ronen Palan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 aug 2015
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781107521612
ISBN-10: 1107521610
Pagini: 268
Ilustrații: 3 b/w illus. 4 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 226 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

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.

Recenzii

'This illuminating book examines assemblages of imperial institutions and practices that combine with those of the modern nation-state. Uniformly intriguing and innovative essays illustrate that contemporary world politics is a patchwork of the old and the new. It thus offers imaginative vistas that enrich our sparse theoretical models and open up new areas for research.' Peter J. Katzenstein, Walter S. Carpenter, Jr Professor of International Studies, Cornell University
'The ghosts of dead empires stalk the lands of their successor nations in the form of intermingled populations, financial hubs, trade routes and military infrastructure. The creative contributors to this highly original volume, not content to study only the legacies of empires past, even try to imagine the likely future legacies of the American empire.' Jack Snyder, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations, Columbia University
'Sandra Halperín and Ronen Palan have brought together an impressive group of scholars who have demonstrated, across a vast range of time and space from ancient Mongol to the modern United States, just how much the politics of the modern world has evolved in the shadow of the our collective imperial pasts. 'World history', in the editors' own words, 'is imperial history'. This is a book that no person concerned with the present plight of the international order can afford to ignore.' Anthony Pagden, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Los Angeles

Descriere

This book reveals how the structures and practices of past empires interact with and shape contemporary 'national' ones.