Author : Antonio Calabria
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 30,88 MB
Release : 2002-08-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521522281
A uniquely broad, comprehensive and sophisticated analysis of an early modern fiscal system.
Author : Niall Ferguson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 29,65 MB
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0241958725
Is America the new world empire? Presidents from Lincoln to Bush may have denied it but, as Niall Ferguson's brilliant and provocative book shows, the US is in many ways the greatest imperial power of all time. What's more, it always has been an empire, expanding westwards throughout the nineteenth century and rising to global dominance in the twentieth. But is today's American colossus really equipped to play Atlas, bearing the weight of the world on its shoulders? The United States, Ferguson reveals, is an empire running on empty, weakened by chronic defecits of money, manpower and political will. When the New Rome falls, he warns, its collapse may come from within. 'One of the timeliest and most topical books to have appeared in recent years' Literary Review 'Yet another tour de force from a writer who displays all his usual gifts of forceful polemic, unconventional intelligence and elegant prose ... guaranteed to spark fierce debate' Irish Times 'A bravura exploration of why Americans are not cut out to be imperialists but nonetheless have an empire. Vigorous, substantive, and worrying' Timothy Garton Ash
Author : James William Fulbright
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,22 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780394572246
From the most distinguished and influential senator of our time comes a reflective, blunt, deeply personal assessment of where America stands today. Fulbright will appear on 60 Minutes.
Author : Niall Ferguson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 23,88 MB
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0241958512
Niall Ferguson's acclaimed bestseller on the highs and lows of Britain's empire 'A remarkably readable précis of the whole British imperial story - triumphs, deceits, decencies, kindnesses, cruelties and all' Jan Morris Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and the deserts of Arabia. Just how did a small, rainy island in the North Atlantic achieve all this? And why did the empire on which the sun literally never set finally decline and fall? Niall Ferguson's acclaimed Empire brilliantly unfolds the imperial story in all its splendours and its miseries, showing how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers planted the seed of the biggest empire in all history - and set the world on the road to modernity. 'The most brilliant British historian of his generation ... Ferguson examines the roles of "pirates, planters, missionaries, mandarins, bankers and bankrupts" in the creation of history's largest empire ... he writes with splendid panache ... and a seemingly effortless, debonair wit' Andrew Roberts 'Dazzling ... wonderfully readable' New York Review of Books 'Empire is a pleasure to read and brims with insights and intelligence' Sunday Times
Author : Tristram Hunt
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 13,80 MB
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0805093087
"Originally published in the U.K. in 2014 under the title Ten cities that made an empire, by Allen Lane, London."
Author : Chalmers Johnson
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 17,39 MB
Release : 2001-01-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1429928115
An explosive account of the resentments American policies are sowing around the world and of the payback that will be our harvest in the twenty-first century. Blowback, a term invented by the CIA, refers to the uninted consequences of American policies. In this sure-to-be-controversial book, Chalmers Johnson lays out in vivid detail the dangers faced by our overextended empire, which insists on projecting its military power to every corner of the earth and using American capital and markets to force global economic integration on its own terms. From a case of rape by U.S. servicemen in Okinawa to our role in Asia's financial crisis, from our early support for Saddam Hussein to our actions in the Balkans, Johnson reveals the ways in which our misguided policies are planting the seeds of future disaster. In the wake of the Cold War, the United States has imprudently expanded the commitments it made over the previous forty years, argues Johnson. In Blowback, he issues a warning we would do well to consider: it is time for our empire to demobilize before our bills come due.
Author : Jack Snyder
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 35,19 MB
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0801468590
Overextension is the common pitfall of empires. Why does it occur? What are the forces that cause the great powers of the industrial era to pursue aggressive foreign policies? Jack Snyder identifies recurrent myths of empire, describes the varieties of overextension to which they lead, and criticizes the traditional explanations offered by historians and political scientists.He tests three competing theories—realism, misperception, and domestic coalition politics—against five detailed case studies: early twentieth-century Germany, Japan in the interwar period, Great Britain in the Victorian era, the Soviet Union after World War II, and the United States during the Cold War. The resulting insights run counter to much that has been written about these apparently familiar instances of empire building.
Author : Lance Edwin Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 30,68 MB
Release : 1988-06-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521357234
Historians have so far made few attempts to assess directly the costs and benefits of Britain's investment in empire. This book presents answers to some of the key questions about the economics of imperialism: how large was the flow of finance to the empire? How great were the profits on empire investment? What were the social costs of maintaining the empire? Who received the profits, and who bore the costs? The authors show that colonial finance did not dominate British capital markets; returns from empire investment were not high in comparison to earnings in the domestic and foreign sectors; there is no evidence of continued exploitative profits; and empire profits were earned at a substantial cost to the taxpayer. They depict British imperialism as a mechanism to effect an income transfer from the tax-paying middle class to the elites in which the ownership of imperial enterprise was heavily concentrated, with some slight net transfer to the colonies in the process.
Author : Trevor Lloyd
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 32,22 MB
Release : 2006-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781852855512
For nearly two hundred years, Great Britain had an empire on which the sun never set. This is the story of its rise and fall
Author : Miles M. Evers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 48,21 MB
Release : 2024-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 100939634X
The United States was an upside-down British Empire. It had an agrarian economy, few large investors, and no territorial holdings outside of North America. However, decades before the Spanish-American War, the United States quietly began to establish an empire across thousands of miles of Pacific Ocean. While conventional wisdom suggests that large interests – the military and major business interests – drove American imperialism, The Price of Empire argues that early American imperialism was driven by small entrepreneurs. When commodity prices boomed, these small entrepreneurs took risks, racing ahead of the American state. Yet when profits were threatened, they clamoured for the US government to follow them into the Pacific. Through novel, intriguing stories of American small businessmen, this book shows how American entrepreneurs manipulated the United States into pursuing imperial projects in the Pacific. It explores their travels abroad and highlights the consequences of contemporary struggles for justice in the Pacific.
