Empires : the logic of world domination from ancient Rome to the United States / Herfried Munkler, translated by Patrick Camiller.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge : Polity Press, 2007Description: xi, 264 pISBN:
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Subject(s): Summary: Are empires inevitable? This study considers the history of land and sea based empires and contrasts the ad hoc nature of many empires with deliberate imperialism. Considers whether the USA can ever be an empire, whether Europe may inevitably become one and whether it is possible to have a democratic empire.
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First published in German as Imperien; Berlin : Rowohlt, 2005.

Are empires inevitable? This study considers the history of land and sea based empires and contrasts the ad hoc nature of many empires with deliberate imperialism. Considers whether the USA can ever be an empire, whether Europe may inevitably become one and whether it is possible to have a democratic empire.

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