Empires and Colonies by Jonathan Hart

Empires and Colonies by Jonathan Hart

Empires and Colonies provides a thoroughgoing and lively exploration of the expansion of the seaborne empires of western Europe from the fifteenth century and how that process of expansion affected the world, including its successor, the United States.

"To contain the story to an accessible 387 pages, Hart uses 1415 as the starting dateEven so, the book is striking in its scope, managing to extend the topic back to classic antiquity and such famed minds as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Aristotle's famed student, Alexander the Great."
Calgary Herald

This is a book of majestic synthesis, a tour de force and a timely reminder of the persistence of empires and imperialism in the political imagination."

Jeremy I. Adelman, Princeton University

"Empires and Colonies covers, in great depth, the entire tangled and tragic history of European empire-building - a powerful, wide-ranging book which is not only a history but also a significant contribution to an important contemporary political debate."

Anthony Pagden, University of California, Los Angeles

Jonathan Hart is Professor of English, Director of Comparative Literature and Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Alberta.

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ISBN 13	9780745626147
ISBN 10	0745626149
Title	Empires and Colonies
Author	Jonathan Hart
Series	Themes In History
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year published	2007-12-13
Number of pages	384
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