Empires in world history departs from conventional european and nation centered perspectives to take a remarkable look at how empires relied on diversity to shape the global order beginning with ancient rome and china and continuing across asia europe the americas and africa jane burbank and frederick cooper examine empires conquests rivalries and strategies of domination with an emphasis on how empires accommodated created and manipulated differences among populations. Empires in world history provides a powerful teaching tool for framing the sometimes fluid and complex relationships between empires and nation states subjects and citizens inclusion and exclusion this book will likely prove most useful in graduate courses in empire and or world history and to teachers who are seeking a way to teach about empire without simply jumping from one to the . Empires in world history power and the politics of difference acls humanities e book authors associate professor of history jane burbank jane burbank frederick cooper edition illustrated. Empires in world history power and the politics of difference by jane burbank frederick cooper 406 rating details 279 ratings 23 reviews empires vast states of territories and peoples united by force and ambition have dominated the political landscape for more than two millennia