World History Center: Empires in World History Bibliography
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Armitage, David, ed. Theories of Empire, 1450-1800. London: Variorum, 1998. Print.
Ashtor, Eliyahu. Technology, Industry and Trade: The Levant versus Europe, 1250-1500. Ed.
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Bala, Poonam. Biomedicine as a Contested Site: Some Revelations in Imperial Contexts.
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008. Print.
Ballantyne, Tony, ed. Science, Empire and the European Exploration of the Pacific. London:
Variorum, 2004. Print.
Banner, Stuart. Possessing the Pacific: Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to
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Bauer, Mazzotti. Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas: Empires, Texts, Identities. Raleigh,
NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. Print.
Beckwith, C. Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the
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Bieber, Judy, ed. Plantation Societies in the Era of European Expansion. London: Variorum,
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Black, Jeremy. Trade, Empire, and British Foreign Policy, 1689-1815: Politics of a Commercial
State. New York: Routledge, 2007. Print.
Blow, David. Shah Abbas: The Ruthless King Who Became an Iranian Legend. New York:
Palgrave, 2008. Print.
Blusse, Leonard. Visible Cities: Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the
Americans. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. Print.
Boxer, C.R. Portuguese Merchants and Missionaries in Feudal Japan, 1543-1640. London:
Variorum, 1986. Print.
Bradford, Ernie. The Sultans Admiral Barbarossa: Pirate and Empire Builder. New York:
Palgrave, 2009. Print.
Burkholder, Mark A., ed. Administrators of Empire. London: Variorum, 1998. Print.
Caprio, Mark, and Koichiro Matsuda, eds. Japan and the Pacific, 1540-1920: Threat and
Opportunity. London: Variorum, 2006. Print.
Caulker, Tcho Mbaimba. The African-British Long Eighteenth Century: An Analysis of AfricanBritish Treaties, Colonial Economics, and Anthropological Discourse. Lanham, MD:
Lexington Books, 2009. Print.
Collins, Paul. From Egypt to Babylon: The International Age 1550-500 BC. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 2008. Print.
Conley, M. From Jack Tar to Union Jack: Representing Naval Manhood in the British Empire,
1870-1918. New York: Palgrave, 2008. Print.
Conrad, S. and Sachsenmaier D. Competing Visions of World Order: Global Moments and
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Crone, Patricia. From Arabian Tribes to Islamic Empire: Army, State and Society in the Near
East c. 600-850. London: Variorum, 2008. Print.
Crouzet, Francois. Britain, France and International Commerce: From Louis XIV to Victoria.
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Cummings, J.S., ed. Christianity and Missions, 1450-1800. London: Variorum, 1997. Print.
Day, D. Conquest: How Societies Overwhelm Others. New York: Oxford University Press,
2008. Print.
De Gaury, G. The Kings in Baghdad: The Tragedy of Iraq's Monarchy. New York: Palgrave,
2008. Print.
Donner, Fred M. The Expansion of the Early Islamic State. London: Variorum, 2008. Print.
Di Cosmo, Nicola. Military Culture in Imperial China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 2009. Print.
Dudden, Arthur Power, ed. American Empire in the Pacific: From Trade to Strategic Balance,
1700-1922. London: Variorum, 2004. Print.
Edmondson, Jonathan. Augustus. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. Print.
Edson, Evelyn. The World Map: The Persistence of Tradition and Transformation. Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Print.
Emmer, Pieter, and Femme Gaastra, eds. The Organization of Interoceanic Trade in European
Expansion, 1450-1800. London: Variorum, 1996. Print.
Emmer, Pieter. The Dutch in the Atlantic Economy, 1580-1880: Trade, Slavery, and
Emancipation. London: Variorum, 1998. Print.
Erskine, Andrew. Roman Imperialism. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. Print.
Espinoza, A. The Empire of the Cities: Emperor Charles V: The Communero Revolt, and the
Transformation of the Spanish System. Boston: Brill, 2009. Print.
Flynn, Dennis O., and Arturo Giraldez, eds. Metals and Monies in an Emerging Global
Economy. London: Variorum, 1997. Print.
Forrest, Allen and Peter H. Wilson. The Bee and the Eagle: Napoleonic France and the End of
the Holy Roman Empire. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Print.
Forster, Robert, ed. European and Non-European Societies, 1450-1800 (2 volumes). London:
Variorum, 1997. Print.
Foucrier, Annick, ed. The French and the Pacific World, 17th-19th Centuries: Explorations,
Migrations and Cultural Exchanges. London: Variorum, 2005. Print.
Frost, Lionel, ed. Urbanization and the Pacific World 1500-1900. London: Variorum, 2005.
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Gafiaiti, Lorcin, Troyanski. Transnational Spaces and Identities in the Francophone World:
Dissolution of French Empire and Immigration. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska
Press, 2008. Print.
Games, Allison. The Web of Empire: English Cosmopolitans in an Age of Expansion, 15601660. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Print.
Goldsworthy, Adrian. How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower. New Haven, CT: Yale, 2008.
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Gough, Barry M. Britain, Canada and the North Pacific: Maritime Enterprise and Dominion,
1778-1914. London: Variorum, 2004. Print.
Hansen, Valerie. The Open Empire: A History of China Through 1600. New York, W.W.
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Headley, John M. Church, Empire and World: The Quest for Universal Order, 1520-1640.
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Hendrickson, David C. Union, Nation, or Empire: The American Debate over International
Relations, 1789-1941. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2008. Print.
Hill, Christopher. National History and the World of Nations: Capital, State, and the Rhetoric of
History in Japan, France, and the United States. Durham, NC: Duke University Press,
2008. Print.
Holland, Robert and Sarah Stockwell. Ambiguities of Empire. New York, Routledge, 2009.
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Howe, Stephen. New Imperial Histories Reader. New York, Routledge, 2009. Print.
Howgego, Heuchert, and Burnett. Coinage and Identity in the Roman Provinces. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2008. Print.
Kelly, James and Barbara Clark Smith. Jamestown, Quebec, Santa Fe: The North American
Beginnings. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2007. Print.
Kennedy, Greg. Imperial Defense: The Old World Order, 1856-1956. New York: Routledge,
2007. Print.
Kramer, Jurgen. Britain and Ireland: A Concise History. New York: Routledge, 2006. Print.
Lawson, Philip. A Taste for Empire and Glory. Ed. David Cannadine, Linda Colley, and Ken
Munro. London: Variorum, 1997. Print.
Lourie, Elena. Crusade and Colonisation: Muslims, Christians and Jews Under the Crown of
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Ma, Debin, ed. Textiles in the Pacific, 1500-1900. London: Variorum, 2006. Print.
MacLeod, Murdo J., and Evelyn S. Rawski, eds. European Intruders and Changes in Behaviour
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Mancall. Envisioning America: English Plans for the Colonization of North America, 15801640. New York: Bedford/St. Martins Press, 1995. Print.
Markovits, Claude. Merchants, Traders, Entrepreneurs: Indian Business in the Colonial Period.
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Marshall, P.J. A Free though Conquering People. London: Variorum, 2003. Print.
Marshall, P.J. Trade and Conquest: studies on the Rise of British Domination in India. London:
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Mattingly, D. An Imperial Possession: Britain and the Roman Empire, 54 BC - AD 409. New
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Miller, Christopher. The French Atlantic Triangle. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008.
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Mitchell, Laura J. Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa. New
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North, Michael. From the North Sea to the Baltic: Essays in Commercial, Monetary and
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Nussbaum, Felicity A. The Global Eighteenth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
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Onley, J. The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj: Merchants, Rulers, and the British in the 19th
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Pagden, Anthony. Facing Each Other The World's Perception of Europe and Europe's
Perception of the World (An Expanding World, V. 31). Grand Rapids: Ashgate, 2000.
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Pagden, Anthony. The Uncertainties of Empire. London: Variorum, 1994. Print.
Palmer, Michael A. Command at Sea: Naval Command and Control since the Sixteenth
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Peers, Douglas M. Warfare and Empires Contact and Conflict Between European and NonEuropean Military and Maritime Forces and Cultures (Expanding World, V. 24). Grand
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Perlin, Frank. The Invisible City: Monetary, Administrative and Popular Infrastructures in Asia
and Europe, 1500-1900. London: Variorum, 1992. Print.
Pinto, Rochelle. Between Empires: Print and Politics in Goa. New York: Oxford University
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Prakash, Om. Precious Metals and Commerce. London: Variorum, 1994. Print.
Ptak, Roderich. China and the Asian Seas: Trade, Travel, and Visions of the Other. London:
Variorum, 1998. Print.
Ptak, Roderich. China, the Portuguese, and the Nanyang: Oceans and Routes, Regions and
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Ptak, Roderich. China's Seaborne Trade with South and Southeast Asia (1200-1750). London:
Variorum, 1999. Print.
Russell-Wood, A.J.R., ed. Government and Governance of European Empires, 1450-1800 (2
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Russell-Wood, A.J.R., ed. Local Government in European overseas Empires, 1450-1800 (2
volumes). London: Variorum, 1999. Print.
Samson, Jane, ed. British Imperial Strategies in the Pacific, 1750-1900. London: Variorum,
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Satia, Priya. Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain’s Covert
Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Print.
Shepard, Jonathan. The Expansion of Orthodox Europe Byzantium, the Balkans and Russia (The
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Sinha, Manisha. Contested Democracy: Freedom, Race, and Power in American History. New
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Smith, R.B. Pre-Communist Indochina. New York: Routledge, 2008. Print.
Storch, Tanya, ed. Religions and Missionaries around the Pacific, 1500-1900. London:
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Suzuki, Shogo. Civilization and Empire: China and Japan's Encounter with European
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Thomas, Moore, and Butler. The Crisis of Empire: Decolonization and Europe's Imperial
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Varnava, Andrekos. British Imperialism in Cyprus: The Inconsequential Possession. New
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Wyatt, D. Battlefronts Real and Imagined: War Border, and Identity in the Chinese Middle
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