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.

• There are also two papers which have nothing to do with the seaborne empires.

• No small part, therefore, originated from the tsarist empire's emergent middle class.

• Captives demonstrates the timeless way in which militarily powerful empires can be reduced to vulnerability by preying upon their citizens.

• The 1970s/1980s pub performance continues to be romanticised by musicians, promoters, managers and venue owners who established considerable commercial empires during the period.

• Without immense determination, without the sights set on unreachable targets, the empires could not have been won.

• The metaphor of organism for international order prevailed in most of the rearranged empires.

• One difficulty was thus that the new, dispersed empires seemed to require a diversity of laws and political principles.