The modern world of nation-states has to a great extent been created by processes associated with European imperialism. Yet European imperialism encountered and eventually brought about the collapse of numerous non-European, once powerful empires ¿ among them the Ottoman Empire, the Mughals in India, and the Qing Dynasty in China. In the twentieth century new empires like Imperial Japan and America challenged the former global dominance of Europe. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, as Western imperialism appears to have exhausted itself, some nation-states in the economically dynamic ¿emerging markets¿ draw inspiration from their former imperial greatness. This course will... -- Course Website
Instructor: Dr P Jory
