The Art of Ruling: 5 Empires That Shaped World History
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A history of human civilization and a history of how humans rule. For much of premodern times, empires were the dominant form of human rule. Since the beginning of modern times, nation-states have been forged in the forges of the American Revolution and the French Revolution. Nationalism seems to have become the universal law of human domination. Empire became synonymous with invaders and colonialism, and was swept into the dustbin of history. However, modern nation-states have not completely solved human governance problems. National conflicts and great-power chauvinism have created war after war. Since the 21st century, with the in-depth development of globalization and multiculturalism, empire has become the object of people's attention again. Different from a large number of anti-imperialist histories written with the ruled as the protagonists, Professor Krishan Kumar takes a different approach and presents to us the rise and fall of the five world empires, the Ottoman, Habsburg, Russian, British and French empires, their governance experience and mission pursuit from the perspective of the imperial rulers and the subject nation.
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