Burbank, Jane. <br/><br/>
Empires in world history:   power and the politics of difference/ 
Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper. 
 - Princeton, N.J. :  Princeton University Press,  c2010. 
 - xiv, 511 p. :  ill., maps ;  27 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Imperial trajectories -- Imperial rule in Rome and China -- After Rome : empire, Christianity, and Islam -- Eurasian connections : the Mongol empires -- Beyond the Mediterranean : Ottoman and Spanish empires -- Oceanic economies and colonial societies : Europe, Asia, and the Americas -- Beyond the steppe : empire-building in Russia and China -- Empire, nation, and citizenship in a revolutionary age -- Empires across continents : the United States and Russia -- Imperial repertoires and myths of modern colonialism -- Sovereignty and empire : nineteenth-century Europe and its near abroad -- War and revolution in a world of empires, 1914 to 1945 -- End of empire? -- Empires, states, and political imagination. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780691127088 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0691127085 (hbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>World history.<br/>World politics.<br/>Imperialism--History.<br/>Colonization--History.<br/>Colonies--History.<br/>Power (Social sciences)--History.<br/>Difference (Philosophy)--Political aspects--History.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>909  / BUR/E