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The rise and fall of modern colonial empires have had a lasting impact on the development of European political theory and notions of national identit

This volume studies the concept of a political 'language', of a discourse composed of shared vocabularies, idioms and rhetorical strategies, which has

Today the majority of the peoples of the planet live in nation-states, based upon the idea, if never the reality, of a single people, a single culture

Today the majority of the peoples of the planet live in nation-states, based upon the idea, if never the reality, of a single people, a single culture

This study presents an analysis of the lasting influence of the Spanish Empire in the history of early modern Europe and of its place in the European

Despite the long history of debate and the recent resurgence of interest in empires and imperialism, no one seems very clear as to what exactly an emp

The entire course of modern Western history has been shaped by the rise and fall of the great European empires. The Burdens of Empire examines differe

This collection discusses what it means to be 'European', covering the period from Antiquity to the end of the twentieth century. Addressing politics,

This collection discusses what it means to be 'European', covering the period from Antiquity to the end of the twentieth century. Addressing politics,

The story of the evolution of the 'European project', from the end of the Napoleonic Wars through to Brexit, this is also the story of how, and why, i

The story of how, and why, the ideal of a universal, global, and cosmopolitan society became such a central part of the Western imagination in the fer