The New Empire - Couverture souple

Adams, Brooks

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1410208109 ISBN 13 : 9781410208101

Editeur : University Press of the Pacific, 2003

Synopsis

An attempt to deal, by inductive methods, with the consolidation and dissolution of those administrative masses which we call empires. Includes bibliographical references and index. In 1866, being asked by his publisher to write a short history of Massachusetts, Brooks Adams (1848-1927) broke upon the literary world with The Emancipation of Massachusetts in which he demolished and rewrote the history of the colony and province of Massachusetts Bay, originally chronicled by the priestly oligarchy against which the book was launched, and in later times principally by eminent members of the Congregational clergy. It made a great stir, especially in religious circles, and brought severe criticism and even denunciation upon the author, but he lived to see it pass to a second edition as accepted history. He then turned to a study of trade-routes and their influence upon the history of peoples and nations and in 1896 published The Law of Civilization and Decay: An Essay on History, a work of a high order as history which laid down the principle that human societies differed among themselves in proportion as they were endowed by nature with energy, a principle later developed by Henry Adams. He regarded this as his most significant work. Beginning in 1907 he successfully filled the chair of constitutional law in Boston University. "Pursuing a line of argument already worked out in his Law of Civilization and Decay, Mr. Adams offers an explanation, a theory it may be called, of the rise and decline of successive "empires" from the dawn of history to the present. The objective point of the argument is to account for the present, or imminent, supremacy of America as an imperial power." -Thorstein Veblen

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Last spring I undertook to prepare for publication several essays and addresses which I supposed were connected together closely enough to present a consecutive chain of thought. On attempting an arrangement I found that I was mistaken, and that to be understood I must recast the whole. When I reached this conclusion it was too late to withdraw from the task, and the consequence has been that I have written the following volume much faster than I have ever before done similar work. I fear that the literary form may have suffered, but I apprehend that, in substance, the book is comprehensible. All my observations lead me to the conclusion that geographical conditions have exercised a great, possibly a preponderating,influence over mans destiny. I am convinced thatsueither history nor economics can be intelligently studied without a Qpnstant reference to the geographical surroundingsP which have affected different nations. I therefore make no apology for having dwelt upon geography, but I wish to say a word concerning my maps. To illustrate my text thoroughly I should need to publish an atlas. This being impossible, I have con tented myself with presenting a few rough sketches, Qon a small scale, to accentuate the more salient theories.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of the Pacific
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1410208109
• ISBN 13: 9781410208101
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 292
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible