Day of empire : how hyperpowers rise to global dominance--and why they fall / Amy Chua
- Bib ID:
- 4237025
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Chua, Amy
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- New York : Doubleday, c2007
- xxxiv, 396 p. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780385512848
- 0385512848
- Full contents:
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- The first hegemon : the great Persian empire from Cyrus to Alexander
- Tolerance in Rome's high empire : gladiators, togas, and imperial "glue"
- China's golden age : the mixed-blooded Tang dynasty
- The great Mongol empire : cosmopolitan barbarians
- The "purification" of medieval Spain : inquisition, expulsion, and the price of intolerance
- The Dutch world empire : diamonds, damask, and every "mongrel sect in Christendom"
- Tolerance and intolerance in the East : the Ottoman, Ming, and Mughal empires
- The British empire : "rebel buggers" and the "white man's burden"
- The American hyperpower : tolerance and the microchip
- The rise and fall of the Axis Powers : Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan
- The challengers : China, the European Union, and India in the twenty-first century
- The day of empire : lessons of history.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-382) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2007
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