Examining diversity as a fundamental reality of empire, this book explores European colonial empires, both terrestrial and maritime, to show how they addressed

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Throughout history, a large portion of the world's population has lived under imperial rule. Although scholars do not always agree on when and where the roots o

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Written by one of the world’s foremost historians of human migration, Peoples and Empires is the story of the great European empires—the Roman, the Spanish,