The Shadows of Empire
eBook - ePub

The Shadows of Empire

How Imperial History Shapes Our World

  1. 384 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Shadows of Empire

How Imperial History Shapes Our World

About this book

A masterful, thought-provoking, and wide-ranging study of how the vestiges of the imperial era shapesociety today. In this groundbreaking narrative, The Shadows of Empire explains (in the vein of The Silk Roads and Prisoners of Geography) how the world's imperial legacies still shapeour lives—as well as the thorniest issues we face today. For the first time in millennia we live without formal empires. But that doesn't mean we don't feel their presence rumbling through history. From Russia's incursions in the Ukraine to Brexit; from Trump's America-First policy to China's forays into Africa; from Modi's India to the hotbed of the Middle East, Samir Puri provides a bold new framework for understanding the world's complex rivalries and politics. Organized by region, and covering vital topics such as security, foreign policy, national politics and commerce, The Shadows of Empire combines gripping history and astute analysis to explain why the history of empire affects us all in profound ways; it is also a plea for greater awareness, both as individuals and as nations, of how our varied imperial pasts have contributed to why we see the world in such different ways.

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Information

Publisher
Pegasus Books
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9781643136691
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter One: America’s Imperial Inheritance
  6. Chapter Two: Britain’s Grandeur and Guilt of Empire
  7. Chapter Three: The European Union’s Post-Imperial Project
  8. Chapter Four: Russia’s Embrace of its Imperial Legacy
  9. Chapter Five: China’s Janus Faces of Empire
  10. Chapter Six: India’s Overcoming of the ‘Intimate Enemy’
  11. Chapter Seven: The Middle East’s Post-Imperial Instability
  12. Chapter Eight: Africa’s Scramble Beyond Colonialism
  13. Conclusion: The World’s Intersecting Imperial Legacies
  14. Acknowledgements
  15. About the Author
  16. Bibliography
  17. Notes
  18. Index
  19. Copyright