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The New Empire (Paperback)
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The New Empire (Paperback)
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Loot Price R578
Discovery Miles 5 780
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An attempt to deal, by inductive methods, with the consolidation
and dissolution of those administrative masses which we call
empires. Includes bibliographical references and index. In 1866,
being asked by his publisher to write a short history of
Massachusetts, Brooks Adams (1848-1927) broke upon the literary
world with The Emancipation of Massachusetts in which he demolished
and rewrote the history of the colony and province of Massachusetts
Bay, originally chronicled by the priestly oligarchy against which
the book was launched, and in later times principally by eminent
members of the Congregational clergy. It made a great stir,
especially in religious circles, and brought severe criticism and
even denunciation upon the author, but he lived to see it pass to a
second edition as accepted history. He then turned to a study of
trade-routes and their influence upon the history of peoples and
nations and in 1896 published The Law of Civilization and Decay: An
Essay on History, a work of a high order as history which laid down
the principle that human societies differed among themselves in
proportion as they were endowed by nature with energy, a principle
later developed by Henry Adams. He regarded this as his most
significant work. Beginning in 1907 he successfully filled the
chair of constitutional law in Boston University. "Pursuing a line
of argument already worked out in his Law of Civilization and
Decay, Mr. Adams offers an explanation, a theory it may be called,
of the rise and decline of successive "empires" from the dawn of
history to the present. The objective point of the argument is to
account for the present, or imminent, supremacy of America as an
imperial power." -Thorstein Veblen
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