Anders Engberg-Pedersen shows how the Napoleonic Wars inspired a new discourse on knowledge in the West. Soldiers returning from battle were forced to reconside

This study focuses on Empires, from an economic historical perspective. In doing so, it relates current debates in international relations (IR) and politics to

Looking at decolonization in the conditional tense, this volume teases out the complex and uncertain ends of British and French empire in Africa during the peri

The first volume to explore the role of race and empire in political theory debates over global justice.

A sweeping political history of the turbulent two centuries that led to the demise of the Roman Empire. The Tragedy of Empire begins in the late fourth century