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The burdens of empire : 1539 to the present / Anthony Pagden.
By: Pagden, Anthony [author.]
.Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015Description: xii, 288 pages.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780521198271; 9780521188289.Subject(s): Imperialism -- History | Colonization -- History | Ethnic relations -- History | Imperialism -- Philosophy | International relations -- Philosophy | Europe -- Colonies -- HistoryDDC classification: 325.32094 Summary: "This book examines how empires were conceived by those who ruled them and lived under them; it looks at the relations, real or imagined, between the imperial metropolis (when one existed) and its outlying provinces or colonies; and it asks how the laws that governed the various parts and various ethnic groups, of which all empires were made, were conceived and interpreted."-- Provided by publisher (reduced).
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 325.32094 PAG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 010160 |
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| 325.32 POR Empire and superempire : | 325.320722 RET Rethinking the history of empire / | 325.32094 BUE Europe after empire : | 325.32094 PAG The burdens of empire : | 325.320941 Empire and sexuality : the British experience / | 325.320941 HYA Empire and sexuality : the British experience / | 325.320941 POW Britain and Ireland in the eighteenth-century crisis of empire / |
"This book examines how empires were conceived by those who ruled them and lived under them; it looks at the relations, real or imagined, between the imperial metropolis (when one existed) and its outlying provinces or colonies; and it asks how the laws that governed the various parts and various ethnic groups, of which all empires were made, were conceived and interpreted."-- Provided by publisher (reduced).