{"title":"Jane Burbank","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJane Burbank\u003c\/strong\u003e offers profound insights into the intricate dynamics of empire and power throughout history. Her works thoughtfully explore the rise and fall of empires, their influence on world history, and the enduring legacies they leave behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect rigorous scholarship combined with accessible narrative in titles such as \u003cem\u003eEmpires in World History\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePost-Imperial Possibilities\u003c\/em\u003e. These books illuminate the complexities of imperial rule and its impact on societies across time, making them essential reading for anyone interested in history and military studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"empires-in-world-history-by-frederick-cooper-9780691152363","title":"Empires in World History","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEmpires in World History\u003c\/em\u003e examines the vast states of territories and peoples united by force and ambition, which have dominated the political landscape for more than two millennia. This book departs from conventional European and nation-centred perspectives to offer a remarkable look at how empires relied on diversity to shape the global order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning with ancient Rome and China, and continuing across Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Africa, authors Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper explore the conquests, rivalries, and strategies of domination employed by empires. They emphasise how these empires accommodated, created, and manipulated differences among populations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBurbank and Cooper examine Rome and China from the third century BCE, highlighting empires that sustained state power for centuries. They delve into the militant monotheism of Byzantium, the Islamic Caliphates, and the short-lived Carolingians, as well as the pragmatically tolerant rule of the Mongols and Ottomans, who combined religious protection with the politics of loyalty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe authors also discuss the influence of empire on capitalism and popular sovereignty, the limitations and instability of Europe's colonial projects, and Russia's repertoire of exploitation and differentiation. Furthermore, they consider the \"empire of liberty,\" devised by American revolutionaries and later extended across a continent and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith its investigation into the relationship between diversity and imperial states, \u003cem\u003eEmpires in World History\u003c\/em\u003e offers a fresh approach to understanding the impact of empires on the past and present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46849049493740,"sku":"9780691152363","price":92.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/1510773482434.jpg?v=1759012823"},{"product_id":"post-imperial-possibilities-by-frederick-cooper-9780691250373","title":"Post-Imperial Possibilities","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter the dissolution of empires, was the nation-state the only way to unite people politically, culturally, and economically? In \u003ci\u003ePost-Imperial Possibilities\u003c\/i\u003e, historians Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper examine three large-scale, transcontinental projects aimed at bringing together peoples of different regions to mitigate imperial legacies of inequality. Eurasia, Eurafrica, and Afroasia—in theory if not in practice—offered alternative routes out of empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe theory of Eurasianism was developed after the collapse of imperial Russia by exiled intellectuals alienated by both Western imperialism and communism. Eurafrica began as a design for collaborative European exploitation of Africa but was transformed in the 1940s and 1950s into a project to include France's African territories in plans for European integration. The Afroasian movement wanted to replace the vertical relationship of coloniser and colonised with a horizontal relationship among former colonial territories that could challenge both the communist and capitalist worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBoth Eurafrica and Afroasia floundered, victims of old and new vested interests. But Eurasia revived in the 1990s, when Russian intellectuals turned the theory's attack on Western hegemony into a recipe for the restoration of Russian imperial power. While both the system of purportedly sovereign states and the concentrated might of large economic and political institutions continue to frustrate projects to overcome inequities in welfare and power, Burbank and Cooper's study of political imagination explores wide-ranging concepts of social affiliation and obligation that emerged after empire and the reasons for their unlike destinies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46849911423212,"sku":"9780691250373","price":69.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/2490873482434.jpg?v=1759061353"},{"product_id":"post-imperial-possibilities-by-jane-burbank-9780691251516","title":"Post-Imperial Possibilities","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter the dissolution of empires, was the nation-state the only way to unite people politically, culturally and economically? 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