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Roman Imperial Policy from Julian to Theodosius.(Book review)
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Canadian Journal of History
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December 22, 2007
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- Stephens, Justin
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2007 Canadian Journal of History. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Roman Imperial Policy from Julian to Theodosius by Malcolm R. Errington. Studies in the History of Greece and Rome. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press. xii, 336 pp. $45.00 US (cloth).
Malcolm Errington's book offers a systematic treatment of Roman imperial policy in the late empire policy from the death of Julian in 363 to the death of Theodosius in 395. In the process, he tests Fergus Millar's model of the reactive emperor in the early and middle empire, put forth in The Emperor in the Roman Worm (1977). Like Millar, Errington argues that imperial policy was largely shaped by reactive and pragmatic responses to crises rather being the product of any active ...
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Liberal empire: assessing the arguments.
Ethics & International Affairs;
October 1, 2003 ;
Purdy, Jedediah;
787 words
...This essay is an attempt to take the idea of empire seriously as an element in normative political theory. The sudden reappearance of empire as a doctrine to be taken seriously had some of the...is a short-lived pleasure. Now that the concept of empire has shed its pariah status, the time has come for...in ...
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Lord Hailey, the Colonial Office and the Politics of Race and Empire in...
Albion;
March 22, 2002 ;
Kubicek, Robert;
787 words
......and the Politics of Race and Empire in the Second World War: The...ISBN 0-312-23214-4. British imperial policy makers in the 1930s and early...rather than disengage from the empire. This monograph probes the...fundamental rationale for empire, the author argues, which...pressures to ...
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Fear and Loathing in the Empire; Kirsten McKenzie, Scandal and the...
Hecate's Australian Women's Book Review;
May 31, 2004 ;
Anonymous;
787 words
......and of the larger British Empire of which they were constituent...the context within which imperial policy was created. An ex-convict...a governor and shaping imperial opinion in the process...McKenzie follows historians of imperial culture like Catherine...relevant to the politics of ...
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The Perils of Empire. James Laxer. Viking (Penguin), Toronto. 2008.
Albawaba.com;
April 21, 2008 ;
Laxer, James;
787 words
...The Perils of Empire. James Laxer. Viking (Penguin), Toronto. 2008. The concept of empire has been discussed quite rigorously by various...through more academic apologists to those berating empire for the ills of the world. While not all ills...
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Canada and the End of Empire.(Book review)
American Review of Canadian Studies;
December 22, 2005 ;
Owram, Doug;
787 words
......Buckner ed., Canada and the End of Empire. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005. vi + 328...the issue of Canada and the end of Empire will he a slippery one. Canada, after all, has never formally left the Empire. The monarchy and our membership in...
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Empire turns to Briggs to restore its credibility. (Empire Blue Cross/Blue...
National Underwriter Life & Health-Financial Services Edition;
July 12, 1993 ;
Schwartz, Matthew P.;
548 words
......attempt to restore its battered image, Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield has hired Philip...everybody that there isn't a crisis engulfing Empire. The place isn't falling apart, said Mr...a help or hindrance to his mission at Empire, Mr. Briggs said: I think it's a plus...
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Webster, Wendy: Englishness and Empire, 1939-1965.(Book Review)
History: Review of New Books;
September 22, 2005 ;
Long, Roger D.;
425 words
...Webster, Wendy Englishness and Empire, 1939-1965 Oxford: Oxford University Press...of volumes that argue that the British empire had a greater impact on the metropolis...feminist writer, also argues that the empire played an important role in the definition...
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The lures of empire: present, past, and future.
Queen's Quarterly;
September 22, 2005 ;
Colley, Linda;
787 words
...The word empire, political scientist Joseph Nye remarked...because of it--public discourse about empire in general, and American versions of it...even in academe, where in recent decades empire has been the object of intense and impassioned...
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Also names councils...Empire Health beefs up business sector acumen
Journal of Business;
July 31, 2003 ;
Parish, Linn;
787 words
...Empire Health Services, the nonprofit operator of Deaconess Medical...directors and establishing new in-house councils. Already, says Empire Board Chairman Mike Taylor, "We're detecting a sense of...that's coming through in the bottom line as well." Fiscally, Empire has shown improvement. After sustaining ...
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ANGLOSPHERE: THE LOGIC OF EMPIRE
United Press International;
January 11, 2003 ;
787 words
...00-00-0000 Anglosphere: The logic of empire WASHINGTON, Jan 11, 2003 (United Press...left are speaking of the United States as empire more and more. From the left, (and occasionally...the United States is accused of being an empire already, and that is assumed to be a bad...
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AT&T sues Empire Blues for alleged overbilling. (Empire Blue Cross and...
National Underwriter Life & Health-Financial Services Edition;
May 17, 1993 ;
Schwartz, Matthew P.;
709 words
...Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield has agreed to allow independent...made by American Telephone and Telegraph in a lawsuit that Empire--and six other Blues plans--defrauded the company's medical...blow to the insurer, the Federal government has alerted Empire that it is in danger of losing a $63 million ...
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The unconscious colossus: limits of (& alternatives to) American empire.
Daedalus;
March 22, 2005 ;
Ferguson, Niall;
787 words
...What is an empire? In the words of one of the few modern...attempt a genuinely comparative study of empires, it is First and foremost, a very great...one of the great perennial dilemmas of empire.... An empire is by definition ... not...
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Liquidation of Empire: the Decline of the British Empire.(Book Review)
Canadian Journal of History;
December 1, 2004 ;
Hay, William Anthony;
787 words
...Liquidation of Empire: The Decline of the British Empire, by Roy Douglas. Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan...stated determination of British statesmen to hold their empire together and its rapid dissolution from the late 1940s...
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Empire. (Book Notes).
American Studies International;
February 1, 2002 ;
Cook, Laura;
782 words
...Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge: Harvard University Press...political theory and political praxis in Empire. This work's greatest contribution, indeed...simply imperialism. This new formation is Empire. Empire, goes the argument, roots itself...
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Empire, Hegemony and Globalization in the Americas
NACLA Report on the Americas;
September 1, 2005 ;
Knight, Alan;
787 words
...TALK OF EMPIRE IS BACK IN VOGUE. Despite repeated reassurances...territorial ambitions; we don't seek an Empire."), the imperialist deployment of U.S...even further: from lauding the British Empire as an Empire of free trade and economic...
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