Empires
Michael Doyle (Author)
"The analysis of the causes and patterns of imperialism has long been a difficult academic exercise. ... To structure this far-ranging phenomenon and arrange its course in a concise, interpretive essay takes pluck, if a good adjective from the derring-do novels of empire may be used here. Michael W. Doyle had that pluck and has succeeded remarkably well in his task. This is a splendid essay, an effective combination of broad historical analysis and well-presented theoretical assessments derived from the social sciences. The book will no doubt stand as one of the best contemporary syntheses of the progress of imperialism. ... Doyle has read widely and well. He has mastered his material and has done with it something masterly: he has made the whole more than the sum of the parts. What follows next from the lively mind of this scholar will be pleasantly anticipated."--American Historical Review
Print Book, English, 1986
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 1986
History
407 pages ; 24 cm
9780801493348, 9780801417566, 080149334X, 0801417562
12668820
Imperialism and empire
Introduction
Athens and Sparta : empire and hegemony
Rome
The Ottoman, Spanish, and English empires
The sociology of empires : hypotheses
Introduction to Part 2
Tribal peripheries and formal empire
Patrimonal peripheries and informal empire
The international system and nineteenth-century imperialism
Greater Britain
France, Germany, and Spain
The politics of nineenth-century imperialism
Imperial development : the end of empire?
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