Informal Empire and the Rise of One World Culture

by Gregory A. Barton

Book Overview

Informal empire is a key mechanism of control that explains much of the configuration of the modern world as it is today. This book traces the broad and undeniable outline of westernization through elite formations around the world in the modern era. It explains why the world is western and how formal empire describes only the tip of the iceberg of British and American power. Barton examines how the imperial web of influence can justly be said to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230232345
• ISBN13: 9780230232341
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.5"