Day of empire : how hyperpowers rise to global dominance--and why they fall /
Historians have long debated the rise and fall of empires. To date, however, no one has studied the far rarer phenomenon of hyperpowers--those few societies that amassed such extraordinary military and economic might that they essentially dominated the world. Here, globalization expert Chua explains...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Doubleday,
[2007]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only |
Table of Contents:
- The first hegemon : the great Persian empire from Cyrus to Alexander
- Tolerance in Rome's high empire : gladiators, togas, and imperial "glue"
- China's golden age : the mixed-blooded Tang dynasty
- The great Mongol empire : cosmopolitan barbarians
- The "purification" of medieval Spain : inquisition, expulsion, and the price of intolerance
- The Dutch world empire : diamonds, damask, and every "mongrel sect in Christendom"
- Tolerance and intolerance in the East : the Ottoman, Ming, and Mughal empires
- The British empire : "rebel buggers" and the "white man's burden"
- The American hyperpower : tolerance and the microchip
- The rise and fall of the Axis Powers : Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan
- The challengers : China, the European Union, and India in the twenty-first century
- The day of empire : lessons of history.