Empires and the Reach of the Global - 18701945

Empire was not fabricated in European capitals and implemented ¿out there.¿ Imperial systems affected the metropole as well as the farthest outpost. Empires and the Reach of the Global shows how imperialism has been a shaping force not just in international politics but in the economies and cultures of today¿s world.

About the author

Tony Ballantyne is Professor of History at the University of Otago.Antoinette Burton is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Summary

Empire was not fabricated in European capitals and implemented “out there.” Imperial systems affected the metropole as well as the farthest outpost. Empires and the Reach of the Global shows how imperialism has been a shaping force not just in international politics but in the economies and cultures of today’s world.

Product details

• Authors: Tony Ballantyne, Tony Burton Ballantyne, Ballantyne Tony, Antoinette Burton, Antoinette M. Ballantyne Burton, Burton Antoinette
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.04.2014
• EAN: 9780674281295
• ISBN: 978-0-674-28129-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Imperialism, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, c 1500 onwards to present day, Migration, immigration and emigration, General and world history, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General