What implication does our perception of time have for how we view the world and how we understand history?

- Provides a guide to non-western conceptualisations of history (in Buddhism and the Australian Dreamtime), which is very rare in existing books.

- Has agenuinely comparative approach in which western empiricism is not assumed as the normal basis for doing history.

- Itts an extremely comprehensive historical survey - ranging from early religions to the contemporary world.

- Meshes together of debates from History, Philosophy and Theology to generate a new argument.

This account of imperialism explores recent intellectual, theoretical and conceptual developments in imperial history, including interdisciplinary and post-colonial perspectives. Exploring the links between empire and domestic history, it looks at the interconnections and comparisons between empire and imperial power within wider developments in world history, covering the period from the Roman to the present American empire.

The book begins by examining the nature of empire, then looks at continuity and change in the historiography of imperialism and theoretical and conceptual...

In the 1960s and 1970s the study of history and sociology was heavily influenced by Marxism and theories of class. But the collapse of Communism and significant changes in culture and society threw the study of class into crisis. Its most basic premises were called into question.

More recently accelerating globalisation, proliferating multinational corporations and unbridled free-market capitalism have given the study of class a new significance and caused historians and sociologists to revisit the debate.

This book looks at the changes that caused the crisis in the study of...