Lessons of empire: Imperial histories and American power

edited by Craig Calhoun, Frederick Cooper, and Kevin W. Moore. (2006) New Press.

Introduction [pdf: 5 pages, 360kb]
Chapter 1 | The new imperialists
by Matthew Connelly
Chapter 2 | The history of lessons: Law and power in modern empire
by Emmanuelle Saada
Chapter 3 | Imperial formations and the opacities of rule
by Ann Laura Stoler
Chapter 4 | Modernizing colonialism and the limits of empire
by Frederick Cooper
Chapter 5 | Learning from empire: Russia and the Soviet Union
by Ronald Grigor Suny
Chapter 6 | Empires of liberty? Democracy and conquest in French Egypt, British Egypt,
and American Iraq
by Juan Cole
Chapter 7 | Law and legitimation in empire
by Caglar Keyder
Chapter 8 | Imperialism or colonialism? From Windhoek to Washington, by way of Basra
by George Steinmetz
Chapter 9 | Who counts? Imperial and corporate structures of governance,
decolonialization, and limited liability
by John D. Kelly
Chapter 10 | Empire and imitation Sheldon Pollock
Chapter 11 | China's agrarian empire: A different kind of empire,
a different kind of lesson
by R. Bin Wong
Chapter 12 | Imperial power and its limits: America's colonial empire
by Julian Go
Chapter 13 | Imperial and colonial encounters: Some comparative reflections
by Sanjay Subramanyam
Chapter 14 | Ways of remembering the Maine: Lessons of 1898 in Spain and Cuba
by Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
Chapter 15 | Agriculture, industry, empire, and America
by Craig N. Murphy
Chapter 16 | Imperialism is alive and well: globalization and East Asia after
September 11
by Jomo K. S.
Chapter 17 | Myths of emprie and strategies of hegemony
by Jack Snyder