{"publishers": ["Macmillan Press", "St. Martin's Press"], "number_of_pages": 209, "subtitle": "the concept of empire, 800-1800", "isbn_10": ["0333650131", "0312222262"], "covers": [1179883, 1168202], "lc_classifications": ["JC359 .M86 1999", "D900-D2027D203.2-475"], "url": ["http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol057/99013305.html", "http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol056/99013305.html", "http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/hol053/99013305.html"], "key": "/books/OL32086M", "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL20048A"}], "publish_places": ["Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire", "New York"], "uri_descriptions": ["Contributor biographical information", "Publisher description", "Table of contents"], "pagination": "viii, 209 p. ;", "source_records": ["marc:marc_records_scriblio_net/part28.dat:1598416:1032", "marc:marc_ithaca_college/ic_marc.mrc:190679263:756", "bwb:9780333650134", "bwb:9780312222260", "marc:marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part27.utf8:223311531:1032", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2022-11-23", "ia:empireorderconce0000muld", "marc:marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-005.mrc:455442692:1063", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/ab.bib.09.20150123.full.mrc:881367796:795", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/20220215_047.bib.mrc:85804510:2677"], "title": "Empire and order", "dewey_decimal_class": ["325/.32/09"], "notes": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-199) and index."}, "identifiers": {"goodreads": ["1694719"], "librarything": ["9152382"]}, "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "lccn": ["99013305"], "subjects": ["Imperialism -- History"], "publish_date": "1999", "publish_country": "enk", "by_statement": "James Muldoon.", "works": [{"key": "/works/OL14850680W"}], "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "uris": ["http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol057/99013305.html", "http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol056/99013305.html", "http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/hol053/99013305.html"], "local_id": ["urn:bwbsku:O6-BHX-745"], "ocaid": "empireorderconce0000muld", "oclc_numbers": ["40830099", "237312096"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"Empire is an evocative, yet little examined, word. It can mean the domination of vast territories, a Christian world order, a corrupt form of government, or a humanitarian endeavour. Historians relegate the concept of empire to the pre-modern world, identifying the state as the characteristic political form of the modern world. This book examines the range of meanings attributed to the concept of empire in the medieval and early modern world, demonstrating how the concepts of empire and state developed in parallel, not sequentially.\"--"}, "latest_revision": 16, "revision": 16, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-09-17T01:58:58.763373"}}