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    Imperial Trajectories pp. 1-22.pdf
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    1. cdesnoes 04 Sep 2019
      Despite efforts in words and wars to put national unity at the center of political imagination, imperial politics, imperial practices, and imperial cultures have shaped the world we live in.

      This reminds me of the question we were asked during one of our FSEM Colgate Conversations -- Is conforming necessary to become a group? Although I felt strongly that to become a cohesive and powerful group there must be many similarities, many other of my classmates felt the opposite (which would be the view of the leaders of an Empire)

    2. cdesnoes 03 Sep 2019
      . An empire could be an assemblage of peoples, practicing their religions and administering justice in their own ways, all subordinated to an imperial sovereign.

      Although subordinated, there is still some respect for the diversity of the peoples that are a part of the empire.

    3. cdesnoes 03 Sep 2019
      Small-scale groups more or less culturally homogeneous, often organized around divi-sions of tasks by gender, age, status, or kinship, are frequently considered the antithesis of empire.

      Is lack of division one of the primary things that constitutes an empire? Does this also mean that despite what political system an "nation" may have they can also fall under the category of empire strictly because of their expansive nature?

    5. cdesnoes 03 Sep 2019
      In the Americas, settlers from Europe, slaves brought from Africa, and their imperial masters produced new forms of imperial politics.

      Interesting that they consider American slavery a new form of imperial politics

    6. cdesnoes 03 Sep 2019
      Rome and China both attained a huge physical size, integrated commerce and production into economies of world scale (the world that each of them created), devised institutions that sustained state power for centuries, developed compelling cultural frameworks to explain and promote their success, and assured, for long periods, acquiescence to imperial power.

      It is interesting that in many of the conversations of great empires one of the first things that is mentioned is the size of the empire. It is almost as if the nature of empires requires a need for constant growth

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