TY - BOOK AU - Burbank,Jane TI - Empires in world history: : power and the politics of difference SN - 9780691127088 (hbk. : alk. paper) U1 - 909 PY - 2010/// CY - Princeton, N.J. PB - Princeton University Press KW - World history KW - World politics KW - Imperialism KW - History KW - Colonization KW - Colonies KW - Power (Social sciences) KW - Difference (Philosophy) KW - Political aspects N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Imperial trajectories -- Imperial rule in Rome and China -- After Rome : empire, Christianity, and Islam -- Eurasian connections : the Mongol empires -- Beyond the Mediterranean : Ottoman and Spanish empires -- Oceanic economies and colonial societies : Europe, Asia, and the Americas -- Beyond the steppe : empire-building in Russia and China -- Empire, nation, and citizenship in a revolutionary age -- Empires across continents : the United States and Russia -- Imperial repertoires and myths of modern colonialism -- Sovereignty and empire : nineteenth-century Europe and its near abroad -- War and revolution in a world of empires, 1914 to 1945 -- End of empire? -- Empires, states, and political imagination ER -