imperialism

"Our world was made on and by the Silk Roads. For millennia it was here that East and West encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas and cultures, the birth of the world's great religions, the appetites for foreign goods that drove economies and the growth of nations"--Provided by publisher.

Surveys fifty individuals and ten political movements representing some of history’s most critical schools of thought.

Freddy, the Prince of Wales, overeducated and lacking charisma, is shipped off to America along with his beautiful, dimwitted wife, Fredericka, where they must travel incognito and without funds on a mission to reclaim the "colonies" for England.

The undead Emperor, having ruled for over one thousand years supported by the Risen, an elite group he has granted eternal life, finds his empire of eighty worlds threatened when the Rix, machine-augmented humans who seek to make all minds one through Artificial Intelligence, kidnap the tyrannical Emperor's sister, the eternal Child Empress.

The author examines the rise and decline of superpowers from ancient Persia to the modern United States, and focuses on the reasons for their success and the factors that caused many of them to fall.

A study of American foreign policy during the last half of the nineteenth century, examining the economic forces which resulted in commercial and landed expansion, and discussing the link between that era and the maturation of the United States into a world power.

Studies the effect that the nineteenth-century European entrepreneurial spirit, which grew in the wake of industrial technology, had on imperialism in Africa and Asia.