Empires / Michael Doyle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doyle, Michael, 1948- author.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Cornell studies in comparative history

Cornell Studies in Comparative History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soils--Texas--Matagorda County--Maps.

Soils.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (407 p. )

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 1880's, 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.

Contents:

Preface

1. Imperialism and Empire

I: HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY OF EMPIRES

2. Introduction to Part I

3. Athens and Sparta: Empire and Hegemony

4. Rome

5. The Ottoman, Spanish, and English Empires

6. The Sociology of Empires: Hypotheses

II: THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA: NINETEENTH-CENTURY IMPERIALISM

7. Introduction to Part II

8. Tribal Peripheries and Formal Empire

9. Patrimonial Peripheries and Informal Empire

10. The International System and Nineteenth-Century Imperialism

11. Greater Britain

12. France, Germany, and Spain

13. The Politics of Nineteenth-Century Imperialism

III: Conclusion

14. Imperial Development: The End of Empire?

Notes:

Text and table "Soil interpretations and limitations for selected uses" on verso.

Includes table "Proportion of associations in Matagorda County," location map, and descriptive legends.

In lower right margin: January 1978 4-R-36198.

"Source: Original draft by State Soil Survey staff."

Depths shown by form lines.

"This general soil map is suitable for broad planning purposes only."

Includes bibliography (p. 373-398) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Apr 2019)

ISBN:

9781501734137

150173413X

OCLC:

1132224689