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Krishan Kumar

Visions of Empire

How Five Imperial Regimes Shaped the World

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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… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-691-19280-2
  • EAN: 9780691192802
  • Produktnummer: 29223927
  • Verlag: University Presses
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 600 S.
  • Masse: H22.8 cm x B14.8 cm x D4.2 cm 898 g
  • Abbildungen: 33 b/w illus. 9 maps.
  • Gewicht: 898

Über den Autor


Krishan Kumar is University Professor and William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. His books include The Idea of Englishness: English Culture, National Identity, and Social Thought.

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