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Jan 6, 2009 · Amy Chua. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jan 6, 2009 - Political Science - 432 pages. In this sweeping history, bestselling author Amy Chua explains how globally dominant empires—or...
Oct 30, 2007 · In a series of brilliantly focused chapters, Chua examines history’s hyperpowers—Persia, Rome, Tang China, the Mongols, the Dutch, the British, and the United States—and reveals the reasons behind their success, as well as the roots of their ultimate demise.
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Oct 30, 2007 · Historians have debated the rise and fall of empires for centuries. To date, however, no one has studied the far rarer phenomenon of hyperpowers—those few societies that amassed such extraordinary military and economic might that they essentially dominated the world.
Chua (World on Fire), a Yale law professor and daughter of immigrants, examines a number of “world-dominant” powers—a none too rigorously defined group that lumps together the Persian, Roman ...
In this sweeping history, bestselling author Amy Chua explains how globally dominant empires--or hyperpowers--rise and why they fall. In a series of brilliant chapter-length studies, she examines the most powerful cultures in history--from the ancient empires of Persia and China to the recent global empires of England and the United States--and ...
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In this sweeping history, bestselling author Amy Chua explains how globally dominant empires—or hyperpowers—rise and why they fall. In a series of brilliant chapter-length studies,...
Dec 22, 2008 · In a series of brilliantly focused chapters, Chua examines history’s hyperpowers—Persia, Rome, Tang China, the Mongols, the Dutch, the British, and the United States—and reveals the reasons behind their success, as well as the roots of their ultimate demise.
