Power and the Politics of Difference Jane Burbank, Associate Professor of History Jane Burbank, Frederick Cooper ... Werth, Paul. At the Margins of Orthodoxy: Mission, Governance, and Confessional Politics in Russia's Volga-Kama Region, ...
Burbank and Cooper examine Rome and China from the third century BCE, empires that sustained state power for centuries. "This is the single best book about the relationship of empires and nations that I can think of.
Empires in World History departs from conventional European and nation-centered perspectives to take a remarkable look at how empires relied on diversity to shape the global order.
The Chinese Journal of International Politics 6.2, pp. 109–132. 10 Frankopan, The Silk Roads, p. 64. 11 Zhenping Wang (2017), Tang China in Multi-Polar Asia: A History of Diplomacy and War(University of Hawai'i Press), pp. 304–305.
The book includes analyses of the comparative scholarly literature on Empire in Antiquity, and Empire in the Early Modern and Modern Ages, asking the question if the United Sates is an Empire, and if China is an emerging Empire.