Peoples and Empires: A Short History of European Migration, Exploration, and Conquest, from Greece to the Present: 0 (Modern Library Chronicles) - Softcover

Pagden, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812967615 ISBN 13: 9780812967616

Publisher: Modern Library, 2003

Synopsis

Written by one of the world's foremost historians of human migration, Peoples and Empires is the story of the great European empires--the Roman, the Spanish, the French, the British--and their colonies, and the back-and-forth between "us" and "them," culture and nature, civilization and barbarism, the center and the periphery. It's the history of how conquerors justified conquest, and how colonists and the colonized changed each other beyond all recognition.

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Peoples and Empires Written by a man deemed the world's foremost historian of human migration, "Peoples and Empires" is the story of the great European empires and how conquerors justified conquest, and how colonists and the colonized changed each other beyond all recognition. Includes a new Epilogue. Full description

Review:

"Two thousand years of empire compressed into two hundred pages, without sacrifice of detail or lucidity. The breadth of vision is phenomenal." --Roy Porter

"Masterly . . . Pagden has an unerring sense of evidence, a gift of lucidity, an eye for a good story, a sharp taste for argument, and a vivid, pithy way with words. . . . He combines without obvious contrivance a survey and a story, with broad horizons and a perfect pace." --Felipe Fernández-Armesto

"Without condescension, [Pagden] writes lucidly for the educated non-expert. Sketching a huge territory of knowledge, his compact essay belongs to a series . . . which on the strength of this volume is an admirable publishing venture indeed." --Chicago Tribune

About this edition

• Publisher: Modern Library
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0812967615
• ISBN 13: 9780812967616
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256