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Die grossen Entdeckungen
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ISBN: 3406097634 Year: 1984 Volume: Band 2 Publisher: München Beck

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Imperial culture and colonial projects : the Portuguese-speaking world from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries
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ISBN: 178920707X 9781789207071 9781789207064 1789207061 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Berghahn

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Beyond the immeasurable political and economic changes it brought, colonial expansion exerted a powerful effect on Portuguese culture. And as this book demonstrates, the imperial culture that emerged over the course of four centuries was hardly a homogeneous whole, as triumphalist literature and other cultural forms mingled with recurrent doubts about the expansionist project. In a series of illuminating case studies, Ramada Curto follows the history and perception of major colonial initiatives while integrating the complex perspectives of participating agents to show how the empire's life and culture were richly inflected by the operations of imperial expansion.


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We shall be masters : Russian pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin
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ISBN: 9780674916449 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press

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We Shall Be Masters is an illuminating account of Russia's attempts-and failures-to achieve great power status in Asia. Since Peter the Great, Russian leaders have been lured by opportunity to the East. Under the tsars, Russians colonized Alaska, California, and Hawaii. The Trans-Siberian Railway linked Moscow to Vladivostok. And Stalin looked to Asia as a sphere of influence, hospitable to the spread of Soviet Communism. In Asia and the Pacific lay territory, markets, security, and glory. But all these expansionist dreams amounted to little. Here, Chris Miller explores why, arguing that Russia's ambitions have repeatedly outstripped its capacity. With the core of the nation concentrated thousands of miles away in the European borderlands, Russia's would-be pioneers have always struggled to project power into Asia and to maintain public and elite interest in their far-flung pursuits.


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We Shall Be Masters : Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin
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ISBN: 9780674259355 9780674916449 0674259335 0674259351 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press

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An illuminating account of Russia’s attempts—and failures—to achieve great power status in Asia. Since Peter the Great, Russian leaders have been lured by opportunity to the East. Under the tsars, Russians colonized Alaska, California, and Hawaii. The Trans-Siberian Railway linked Moscow to Vladivostok. And Stalin looked to Asia as a sphere of influence, hospitable to the spread of Soviet Communism. In Asia and the Pacific lay territory, markets, security, and glory. But all these expansionist dreams amounted to little. In We Shall Be Masters, Chris Miller explores why, arguing that Russia’s ambitions have repeatedly outstripped its capacity. With the core of the nation concentrated thousands of miles away in the European borderlands, Russia’s would-be pioneers have always struggled to project power into Asia and to maintain public and elite interest in their far-flung pursuits. Even when the wider population professed faith in Asia’s promise, few Russians were willing to pay the steep price. Among leaders, too, dreams of empire have always been tempered by fears of cost. Most of Russia’s pivots to Asia have therefore been halfhearted and fleeting. Today the Kremlin talks up the importance of “strategic partnership” with Xi Jinping’s China, and Vladimir Putin’s government is at pains to emphasize Russian activities across Eurasia. But while distance is covered with relative ease in the age of air travel and digital communication, the East remains far off in the ways that matter most. Miller finds that Russia’s Asian dreams are still restrained by the country’s firm rooting in Europe.


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Economics and world power: an assessment of American diplomacy since 1789
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ISBN: 0231043716 0231043708 Year: 1984 Volume: *8 Publisher: New York


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Patterns of empire
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ISBN: 9781107600782 9781107011830 9780511996559 9781139161619 113916161X 0511996551 9781139157803 1139157809 1107011833 1107600782 9781139159562 1139159569 1139153056 1107228921 1283341166 1139160613 9786613341167 1139156047 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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"Patterns of empire comprehensively examines the two most powerful empires in modern history: the United States and Britain. Challenging the popular theory that the American empire is unique, Patterns of empire shows how the policies, practices, forms, and historical dynamics of the American empire repeat those of the British, leading up to the present climate of economic decline, treacherous intervention in the Middle East, and overextended imperial confidence. A critical exercise in revisionist history and comparative social science, this book also offers a challenging theory of empire that recognizes the agency of non-Western peoples, the impact of global fields, and the limits of power"--

El reino de Navarra ; La corona de Aragón ; Portugal
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ISBN: 8423948242 Year: 2000 Volume: 2

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Meeting the enemy : American exceptionalism and international law
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ISBN: 9780814786512 9780814798362 0814786510 9780814741252 0814741258 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York : New York University Press,

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Since its founding, the United States has defined itself as the supreme protector of freedom throughout the world, pointing to its Constitution as the model of law to ensure democracy at home and to protect human rights internationally. Although the United States has consistently emphasized the importance of the international legal system, it has simultaneously distanced itself from many established principles of international law and the institutions that implement them. In fact, the American government has attempted to unilaterally reshape certain doctrines of international law while disregarding others, such as provisions of the Geneva Conventions and the prohibition on torture.America’s selective self-exemption, Natsu Taylor Saito argues, undermines not only specific legal institutions and norms, but leads to a decreased effectiveness of the global rule of law. Meeting the Enemy is a pointed look at why the United States’ frequent—if selective—disregard of international law and institutions is met with such high levels of approval, or at least complacency, by the American public.

The British Empire, 1558-1995
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ISBN: 0198731337 0198731345 Year: 1996 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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Manifest destiny: American expansionism and the empire of right
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ISBN: 0809015846 9780809015849 Year: 1996 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Hill and Wang

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