{"product_id":"endless-empire-spains-retreat-europes-eclipse-americas-decline-paperback-softback-9780299290245","title":"Endless Empire; Spain's Retreat, Europe's Eclipse, America's Decline (Paperback \/ softback) 9780299290245","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEndless Empire\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSpain's Retreat, Europe's Eclipse, America's Decline\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlfred McCoy (Edited by), Josep Fradera (Edited by), Stephen Jacobson (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780299290245\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 27 October 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e440 pages\u003cbr\u003e22 x 14.9 x 3.5 cm, 0.738 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“A rich combination of historical expertise, comparative perspective, and engagement with contemporary trends at the outset of the twenty-first century. It should be a foundational text and point of reference for teaching and scholarship on imperial histories and on American power in today’s world.”- John Sidel, London School of Economics;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An exceptionally comprehensive look at empire in a genuinely global context. The scope and sophistication of these essays are unequaled anywhere.”- Franklin W. Knight, Johns Hopkins University;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Without doubt an important contribution to world diplomacy and a credit to the University of Wisconsin Press for publishing it.”- Red Wing Republican Eagle;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A rich, globally vast portrait of imperial decline that should interest scholars engaged in any aspect of history touched by empire’s receding, relentlessly grasping tendrils.”- \u003ci\u003eH-Net Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThroughout four millennia of recorded history there has been no end to empire, but instead an endless succession of empires. After five centuries of sustained expansion, the half-dozen European powers that ruled half of humanity collapsed with stunning speed after World War II, creating a hundred emerging nations in Asia and Africa. Amid this imperial transition, the United States became the new global hegemon, dominating this world order with an array of power that closely resembled that of its European predecessors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Brazil, Russia, India, China, and the European Union now rise in global influence, twenty leading historians from four continents take a timely look backward and forward to discover patterns of eclipse in past empires that are already shaping a decline in U.S. global power, including:\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eerosion of economic and fiscal strength needed for military power on a global scale\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003emisuse of military power through micro-military misadventures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ebreakdown of alliances among major powers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eweakened controls over the subordinate elites critical for any empire’s exercise of global power\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003einsufficient technological innovation to sustain global force projection.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52676643881240,"sku":"9780299290245","price":21.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/endless-empire-spains-retreat-europes-eclipse-americas-decline-paperback-softback-9780299290245","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}