Empires
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Author | : Jane Burbank |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2011-07-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691152365 |
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Burbank and Cooper examine Rome and China from the third century BCE, empires that sustained state power for centuries.
Author | : Herfried Münkler |
Publisher | : Polity |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2007-06-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0745638716 |
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This overview of Empire is from an eminent German scholar working in the field of imperialism. It also discusses the critical debates surrounding Empire by scholars such as Negri, Mann and Ingatieff.
Author | : Andrew Groen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2015-09-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780990972402 |
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Author | : Vili Lehdonvirta |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2022-09-13 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0262371103 |
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The rise of the platform economy into statelike dominance over the lives of entrepreneurs, users, and workers. The early Internet was a lawless place, populated by scam artists who made buying or selling anything online risky business. Then Amazon, eBay, Upwork, and Apple established secure digital platforms for selling physical goods, crowdsourcing labor, and downloading apps. These tech giants have gone on to rule the Internet like autocrats. How did this happen? How did users and workers become the hapless subjects of online economic empires? The Internet was supposed to liberate us from powerful institutions. In Cloud Empires, digital economy expert Vili Lehdonvirta explores the rise of the platform economy into statelike dominance over our lives and proposes a new way forward. Digital platforms create new marketplaces and prosperity on the Internet, Lehdonvirta explains, but they are ruled by Silicon Valley despots with little or no accountability. Neither workers nor users can “vote with their feet” and find another platform because in most cases there isn’t one. And yet using antitrust law and decentralization to rein in the big tech companies has proven difficult. Lehdonvirta tells the stories of pioneers who helped create—or resist—the new social order established by digital platform companies. The protagonists include the usual suspects—Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Travis Kalanick of Uber, and Bitcoin’s inventor Satoshi Nakamoto—as well as Kristy Milland, labor organizer of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, and GoFundMe, a crowdfunding platform that has emerged as an ersatz stand-in for the welfare state. Only if we understand digital platforms for what they are—institutions as powerful as the state—can we begin the work of democratizing them.
Author | : Dimitris Stamatopoulos |
Publisher | : Central European University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-07-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789633861776 |
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The Balkans offer classic examples of how empires imagine they can transform themselves into national states (Ottomanism) and how nation-states project themselves into future empires (as with the Greek "Great Idea" and the Serbian "Načertaniye"). By examining the interaction between these two aspirations this volume sheds light on the ideological prerequisites for the emergence of Balkan nationalisms. With a balance between historical and literary contributions, the focus is on the ideological hybridity of the new national identities and on the effects of "imperial nationalisms" on the emerging Balkan nationalisms. The authors of the twelve essays reveal the relation between empire and nation-state, proceeding from the observation that many of the new nation-states acquired some imperial features and behaved as empires. This original and stimulating approach reveals the imperialistic nature of so-called ethnic or cultural nationalism.
Author | : Steven Press |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2017-04-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 067497185X |
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The man who bought a country -- The emergence of an idea -- King Leopold's Borneo -- Bismarck's Borneo -- Epilogue: "A great act of folly
Author | : William C. Kirby |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 505 |
Release | : 2022-07-05 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0674737717 |
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The United States is the global leader in higher education, but this was not always the case and may not remain so. William Kirby examines sources of—and threats to—US higher education supremacy and charts the rise of Chinese competitors. Yet Chinese institutions also face problems, including a state that challenges the commitment to free inquiry.
Author | : Stefan Berger |
Publisher | : Central European University Press |
Total Pages | : 702 |
Release | : 2015-06-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9633860164 |
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The essays in Nationalizing Empires challenge the dichotomy between empire and nation state that for decades has dominated historiography. The authors center their attention on nation-building in the imperial core and maintain that the nineteenth century, rather than the age of nation-states, was the age of empires and nationalism. They identify a number of instances where nation building projects in the imperial metropolis aimed at the preservation and extension of empires rather than at their dissolution or the transformation of entire empires into nation states. Such observations have until recently largely escaped theoretical reflection.
Author | : Andrew Groen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1987-07-22 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780990972433 |
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Empires of EVE: Volume 2 is a direct sequel to the events of the first story as the star cluster is left reeling from the collapse of its first hegemon, Band of Brothers.
Author | : Cormac O'Brien |
Publisher | : Pier 9 |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Civilization, Ancient |
ISBN | : 9781741963823 |
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Taking a journey through some of history’s most climactic turns of fate, The Fall of Empires charts sixteen ancient empires from glory to ruin. Impeccably researched and featuring many colour photographs and drawings of locations and artifacts, this book offers a fresh, colourful look at the distant past and at the fascinating subject of imperial mortality.