Wars of empire

Author / Creator

Porch, Douglas, 1944-

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"In Wars of Empire, Douglas Porch describes the rise and fall of the great nineteenth-century imperial powers. He explores the reasons for the supremacy of the empire builders, which was by no mean...

"In Wars of Empire, Douglas Porch describes the rise and fall of the great nineteenth-century imperial powers. He explores the reasons for the supremacy of the empire builders, which was by no means assured, and the economic, tactical and humanitarian reasons why such control was eventually unsustainable. Illustrated throughout with state-of-the-art maps and contemporary photographs and paintings, this is the definitive account of an often shameful but always fascinating period of world history"--BOOK JACKET.

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