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How does our colonial past echo through today's global politics? How have former empire-builders sought vindication or atonement, and formerly colonized states reversal or retribution? This groundbreaking book presents a panoramic view of attitudes to empires past and present, seen not only through the hard politics of international power structures but also through the nuances of memory, historiography and national and minority cultural identities. Bringing together leading historians, poitical scientists and international relations scholars from across the globe, Echoes of Empire emphasizes Europe's colonial legacy whilst also highlighting the importance of non-European power centres- Ottoman, Russian, Chinese, Japanese- in shaping world politics, then and now. Echoes of Empire bridges the divide between disciplines to trace the global routes travelled by objects, ideas and people and forms a radically different notion of the term 'empire' itself. This will be an essential companion to courses on international relations and imperial history as well as a fascinating read for anyone interested in Wesern hegemony, North-South relations, global power shifts and the longue duree.

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The most wide-ranging and impressive effort to date to analyse the after-life of modern European empires Dipesh Chakrabarty Original and illuminating Timothy Garton Ash An inspiration to those who want to end the West versus the Rest divide and build a truly inclusive field of Global IR or global social sciences. Amitav Acharya

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Kalypso Nicolaidis is Professor of International Relations at St. Antony's College, Oxford, UK. Berny Sebe is Lecturer in Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. Gabrielle Maas is an independent scholar and former fellow of the Institute of Historical Research. She received her doctorate from the University of Oxford

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