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Edyta Bojanowska uses Ivan Goncharov's gripping travelogue--a bestseller in nineteenth-century Russia--as a unique eyewitness account of empire in action. Slow
A World of Empires
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Pages: 261
Authors: Edyta M. Bojanowska
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-16 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Through the lens of a classic Russian travelogue, this historical study examines early globalization and Russia’s participation in the Imperial race. In the 1
Empires of the Word
Language: en
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Authors: Nicholas Ostler
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The story of the world in the last five thousand years is above all the story of its languages. Some shared language is what binds any community together and ma
Greeks and Barbarians
Language: en
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This book is an ambitious synthesis of the social, economic, political and cultural interactions between Greeks and non-Greeks in the Mediterranean world during
Empires in World History
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Pages: 528
Authors: Jane Burbank
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Burbank and Cooper examine Rome and China from the third century BCE, empires that sustained state power for centuries.