Day of empire how hyperpowers rise to global dominance-- and why they fall

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Main Author: Chua, Amy
Format: Book
Published: New York Doubleday 2007
Edition:1st ed
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504 # # |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-382) and index 
505 1 # |a 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 mix-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 : the strategic price of intolerance -- The challengers : China, the European Union, and India in the twenty-first century -- The day of empire : lessons of history 
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