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Title The age of empires / edited by Robert Aldrich.

Imprint New York : Thames & Hudson, 2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  909 Ag31 2007    ---  Available
Description 320 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 304-318) and index.
Contents The Ottoman Empire: a resilient polity / Nicholas Doumanis -- Spain: the genealogy of modern colonialism / Josep Fradera -- Portugal: empire-building in the old world and the new / Jill Dias -- The Netherlands: a small country with imperial ambitions / Esther Captain, Guno Jones -- Scandinavia: an outsider in European imperialism / Knud J.V. Jespersen -- Britain: ruling the waves / Kirsten McKenzie -- France: empire and the mere-pattie / Jacques Fremeaux -- Russia: the two empires / Graeme Gill -- Austria-Hungary: the making of central Europe / Walter Sauer -- Belgium: the single-colony empire / Jean-Luc Vellut -- Germany: the latecomer / Joachim Zeller -- Italy: the last empire / Irma Taddia -- The United States: empire as a way of life? / Frank Schumacher
Subject History, Modern.
Imperialism.
Added Author Aldrich, Robert, 1954-
ISBN 0500251363
9780500251362
Standard No. NZ1 11584659

 
    
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