The Imagination of the Empire, the State, and the Nation-State

Engines of Empire: Steamships and the Victorian Imagination 9780804798983

The Engines of Empire explores the complex relationship between Victorians and their greatest invention: the steamship.

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The Empire State Building: The Making of a Landmark 9780801471094

The Empire State Building is the landmark book on one of the world’s most notable landmarks. Since its publication in 19

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The Practical Imagination: The German Sciences of State in the Nineteenth Century 0226482421, 9780226482422

Drawing on the work of Foucault and Bourdieu, David Lindenfeld illuminates the practical imagination as it was exhibited

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Thomas Munro: The Origins of the Colonial State and His Vision of Empire 0195623312, 9780195623314

Thomas Munro was among the most important of British thinker-administrators who shaped imperial rule in India. He was th

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The Cultural Work of Empire: The Seven Years' War and the Imagining of the Shandean State 9780748631223

This book argues that the Seven Years' War (1756-63) produced an intense historical consciousness within British cu

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Minnesota, the Empire State of the New North-west: The Commercial, Manufacturing and Geographical Centre of the American Continent

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State Crime on the Margins of Empire 9781783712304

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Failure of Empire: Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century A.D. 9780520928534

Failure of Empire is the first comprehensive biography of the Roman emperor Valens and his troubled reign (a.d. 364-78).

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Political Theology and Islam: From the Birth of Empire to the Modern State 0268207356, 9780268207359

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Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State 9780520387768

This history reveals how radical threats to the United States empire became seditious threats to national security and e

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