01616nam a22001817a 450000500170000002000180001708200140003510000150004924500320006426000350009630000190013150400190015052010890016965000170125894200070127599900170128295201350129920260703133918.0  a9781509563258  a320.54HAL  aHall, John  aNations, states and empires  aCambridgebPolity Press,c2024  a244p. ; 22 cm.  aIncludes index  aThis book traces the interactions between nations, states and empires in the making of the modern world. It is commonly assumed that nation states succeeded and replaced empires, relegating empires to the past: Hall argues that this is not the case. Empires have continued alongside nation states, shadowing them and overseeing them in the industrial era. The two world wars were imperial wars, rather than wars between nation states. Even after rapid decolonization in the 1950s and 1960s, empires persisted in the USA and the USSR. Furthermore, empires are not finished: the USA retains enormous power whilst Russia and China increasingly show imperial dispositions. Furthermore, empires and nation states do not exist in separate compartments- rather, they often overlap. Consider the USA-at once highly nationalist and the greatest empire in the history of the world. This highly original book will be essential reading for students and scholars in sociology and politics and for anyone interested in the political forces that have shaped, and continue to shape, the modern world"  aNationalism.  cBK  c11552d11552  00104070aU001bU001cInternational Relationsd2026-06-19g53166.00l0o320.54HALpUR010533r2026-07-03 13:41:04w2026-07-03yBK