EmpiresCornell University Press, 1986 - 407 sidor Although empires have shaped the political development of virtually all the states of the modern world, "imperialism" has not figured largely in the mainstream of scholarly literature. This book seeks to account for the imperial phenomenon and to establish its importance as a subject in the study of the theory of world politics. Michael Doyle believes that empires can best be defined as relationships of effective political control imposed by some political societies--those called metropoles--on other political societies--called peripheries. To build an explanation of the birth, life, and death of empires, he starts with an overview and critique of the leading theories of imperialism. Supplementing theoretical analysis with historical description, he considers episodes from the life cycles of empires from the classical and modern world, concentrating on the nineteenth-century scramble for Africa. He describes in detail the slow entanglement of the peripheral societies on the Nile and the Niger with metropolitan power, the survival of independent Ethiopia, Bismarck's manipulation of imperial diplomacy for European ends, the race for imperial possession in the 1880s, and the rapid setting of the imperial sun. Combining a sensitivity to historical detail with a judicious search for general patterns, Empires will engage the attention of social scientists in many disciplines. |
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Michael W. Doyle. Contents Preface I Imperialism and Empire Explaining Imperialism 22 Defining Empire 30 I HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY OF EMPIRES 2 Introduction to Part I II 19 SI 3 Athens and Sparta : Empire and Hegemony 54 Athenian Empire 55 ...
... Empire 105 Imperialism , Colonialism , and the Nation - State 108 6 The Sociology of Empires : Hypotheses The Inadequacy of Theories of Empire 123 Hypotheses on Empire 128 II THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA : NINETEENTH - CENTURY IMPERIALISM 7 ...
... Empire 341 339 Dynamics of the Scramble 344 III CONCLUSION 14 Imperial Development : The End of Empire ? 353 The Gold Coast and Imperial Control 354 Zanzibar and Decolonization 358 The Growth of Imperial Control 361 The Stages of ...
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Preface | 11 |
Imperialism and Empire | 19 |
HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY OF EMPIRES | 49 |
Rome | 82 |
Hypotheses | 123 |
Tribal Peripheries and Formal Empire | 162 |
Patrimonial Society | 198 |
The International System and NineteenthCentury | 232 |
Greater Britain | 257 |
France Germany and Spain | 306 |
The Politics of NineteenthCentury Imperialism | 339 |
The End of Empire? | 353 |
Bibliography | 373 |
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