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6 de ago. de 2019 · Krishan Kumar provides panoramic and multifaceted portraits of five major European empires—Ottoman, Habsburg, Russian/Soviet, British, and French—showing how each, like ancient Rome, saw itself as the carrier of civilization to the rest of the world.
Until now, most recent scholarship on empires has focused on their subject peoples. Visions of Empire looks at their rulers, shedding critical new light on who they were, how they justified their empires, how they viewed themselves, and the styles of rule they adopted toward their subjects.
2 de may. de 2017 · Krishan Kumar provides panoramic and multifaceted portraits of five major European empires—Ottoman, Habsburg, Russian/Soviet, British, and French—showing how each, like ancient Rome, saw itself...
6 de ago. de 2019 · Visions of Empire looks at their rulers, shedding critical new light on who they were, how they justified their empires, how they viewed themselves, and the styles of rule they adopted toward...
3 de dic. de 2018 · In Visions of Empire, a work of prodigious scholarship, Krishan Kumar demonstrates the value of drawing comparisons across time and space. Separate chapters on six European-based empires—Roman, Ottoman, Habsburg, tsarist Russian/Soviet communist, British, and French—highlight unexpectedly common features as well as better-known ...
4 de dic. de 2018 · The book is organised empire by empire, and interweaves basic introductory narratives of imperial expansion and dynastic politics with the analysis. The range of issues discussed is vast, and not consistent between chapters, while inter-imperial comparisons are occasional rather than systematic.
In Visions of Empire: How Five Imperial Regimes Shaped the World, Krishan Kumar (University of Virginia) considers and compares the experiences of five empires from ancient to modern (Roman, Ottoman, Habsburg, Russian/Soviet, British, and French) from the perspectives of “ruling peoples” (xii).
