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Recalling empire: Anglo-American conceptions of imperialism and the decline of the nation-state.(Empire and Superempire: Britain, America and the World; Fugitive Empire: Locating Early American Imperialism; Empire, The National and Postcolonial 1890-1920: Resistance in Interaction; Enlightenment Against Empire)(Book review)

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Porter, Bernard. 2006. Empire and Superempire: Britain, America and the World. New Haven: Yale University Press. $30.00hc. 224pp.

Doolan, Andy. 2005. Fugitive Empire: Locating Early American Imperialism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. $60.00hc. $20.00sc. 280pp.

Boehmer, Elleke. 2002. Empire, The National, and the Postcolonial 1890-1920: Resistance in Interaction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. $95.00hc. $29.95sc. 250pp.

Muthu, Sankar. 2003. Enlightenment Against Empire. Princeton: Princeton University Press. $80.00hc. $22.95sc. 379pp.

 
  Yet another "Treaty," this time with Mesopotamia, another vast Arab 
  country coolly annexed by Britain after the world war, under the guise 
  of a "mandate." The Treaty--in actual fact a charter of conquest--for 
  what Mr. Churchill calls the "provisionally independent state of Irak" 
  has been negotiated over the heads of the inhabitants, and Baghdad ... 
  is in a state of "acute tension" in consequence. (Poblacht na 
  hEireann, 15 June 1922) 
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