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Nations, States and Empires

Nations, States and Empires

Hall, John A.

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General Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 1509563245
ISBN13: 9781509563241
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: Sep 18 2024
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.92 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

In his new book John A. Hall traces the interactions between nations, states and empires in the making of the modern world.

It is commonly assumed that nation states succeeded and replaced empires, relegating empires to the past: Hall argues that this is not the case. Empires have continued alongside nation states, shadowing them and overseeing them in the industrial era. The two world wars were imperial wars, rather than wars between nation states. Even after rapid decolonization in the 1950s and 1960s, empires persisted in the USA and the USSR. Furthermore, empires are not finished: the USA retains enormous power, while Russia and China increasingly show imperial dispositions. Empires and nation states do not exist in separate compartments - rather, they often overlap. Consider the USA - both strongly nationalist and the greatest empire in the history of the world.

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