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Empires (Paperback)
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Empires (Paperback)
Series: Cornell Studies in Comparative History
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Although empires have shaped the political development of virtually
all the states of the modern world, "imperialism" has not figured
largely in the mainstream of scholarly literature. This book seeks
to account for the imperial phenomenon and to establish its
importance as a subject in the study of the theory of world
politics. Michael Doyle believes that empires can best be defined
as relationships of effective political control imposed by some
political societies-those called metropoles-on other political
societies-called peripheries. To build an explanation of the birth,
life, and death of empires, he starts with an overview and critique
of the leading theories of imperialism. Supplementing theoretical
analysis with historical description, he considers episodes from
the life cycles of empires from the classical and modern world,
concentrating on the nineteenth-century scramble for Africa. He
describes in detail the slow entanglement of the peripheral
societies on the Nile and the Niger with metropolitan power, the
survival of independent Ethiopia, Bismarck's manipulation of
imperial diplomacy for European ends, the race for imperial
possession in the 1880s, and the rapid setting of the imperial sun.
Combining a sensitivity to historical detail with a judicious
search for general patterns, Empires will engage the attention of
social scientists in many disciplines.
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