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008			180808s2017 xxuacb b 001 0 eng d
020			_a9780691153636 _qhardcover : alk. paper
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100	1		_aKumar, Krishan _d1942- _eauthor. _981944
245	1	0	_aVisions of empire : _bhow five imperial regimes shaped the world / _cKrishan Kumar.
264		1	_aPrinceton ; _aOxford : _bPrinceton University Press, _c2017.
300			_axviii, 576 pages : _billustrations, portraits, maps
336			_atext _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aThe idea of empire -- The Roman empire -- The Ottoman empire -- The Habsburg empire -- The Russian and Soviet empires -- The British empire -- The French empire -- Epilogue: nations after empires.
520			_a"The empires of the past were far-flung experiments in multinationalism and multiculturalism, and have much to teach us about navigating our own increasingly globalized and interconnected world. Until now, most recent scholarship on empires has focused on their subject peoples. Visions of Empire looks at their rulers, shedding critical new light on who they were, how they justified their empires, how they viewed themselves, and the styles of rule they adopted toward their subjects. Krishan Kumar provides panoramic and multifaceted portraits of five major European empires—Ottoman, Habsburg, Russian/Soviet, British, and French—showing how each, like ancient Rome, saw itself as the carrier of universal civilization to the rest of the world. Sometimes these aims were couched in religious terms, as with Islam for the Ottomans or Catholicism for the Habsburgs. Later, the imperial missions took more secular forms, as with British political traditions or the world communism of the Soviets. Visions of Empire offers new insights into the interactions between rulers and ruled, revealing how empire was as much a shared enterprise as a clash of oppositional interests. It explores how these empires differed from nation-states, particularly in how the ruling peoples of empires were forced to downplay or suppress their own national or ethnic identities in the interests of the long-term preservation of their rule. This compelling and in-depth book demonstrates how the rulers of empire, in their quest for a universal world order, left behind a legacy of multiculturalism and diversity that is uniquely relevant for us today." _cTaken from dust jacket.
650		0	_aImperialism _xCase studies. _9119501
650		0	_aWorld politics. _922176
650		0	_aWorld history. _922001
651		0	_919378 _aTurkey _xHistory _yOttoman Empire, 1288-1918.
651		0	_918495 _aRome _xHistory _yEmpire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
651		0	_920554 _aRussia.
651		0	_915228 _aFrance _xHistory _yThird Republic, 1870-1940.
651		0	_9119502 _aAustria _xHistory _y1789-1900.
651		0	_915587 _aGreat Britain _xColonies.
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