Visions of Empire
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Visions of Empire: How Five Imperial Regimes Shaped the World
By Krishan Kumar"In this extraordinary volume, Krishan Kumar provides us with a brilliant tour of some of history's most important empires, demonstrating the critical importance of imperial ideas and ideologies for understanding their modalities of rule ...
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Visions of Empire: Picturing the Conquest in Colonial Mexico
By Margaret A. Jackson, Rebecca P. BrienenVisions of Empire: Picturing the Conquest in Colonial Mexico
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Visions of empire: Patriotism, popular culture and the city, 1870–1939
By Brad BeavenIt has also consistently provoked controversy among historians. This book offers a ground-breaking perspective on how imperial culture was disseminated.
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Visions of Empire: Voyages, Botany, and Representations of Nature
By David Philip Miller, Peter Hanns ReillRichly illustrated 1996 collection on how Pacific plants and peoples were depicted by European explorers.
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Visions of Empire: Political Imagery in Contemporary American Film
By Stephen PrinceVisions of Empire explores film's function as a medium of political communication, recognizing not just the propaganda film, but the various ways that conventional narrative films embody, question, or critique established social values ...
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Visions of Empire: How Five Imperial Regimes Shaped the World
By Krishan KumarVisions of Empire looks at their rulers, shedding critical new light on who they were, how they justified their empires, how they viewed themselves, and the styles of rule they adopted toward their subjects.