empire Betydning & definition

Eksempler på empire

• Accordingly, these stories demonstrate outright skepticism of the empire's civilizing mission.

• She agrees with recent scholarship that has demonstrated that the rise of notables did not necessarily bring about the empire's decline (p. 6).

• Liberals, too, were part of the empire's governing establishment.

• Without a doubt, this is by far the best recent general book on empires available, and it deserves the widest possible readership.

• The former sought to argue, using various examples of imperial rise and decline, that all empires followed the same trajectory ; that they all eventually collapsed.

• Tensions between the foreign ministries of the two empires derived largely from their very different concepts regarding citizenship.

• They inform us about the aspirations the travelers pursued in these empires and what activities they carried out.

• In general the benefits of empires have usually been concentrated in the hands of the few, and the costs spread over taxpayers at large.