by Jean Tulard · ISBN 9782130478522
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«Les empires occidentaux de Rome à Berlin» is the historical essay directed by Jean Tulard, published by PUF (503 pages, in French).
The book asks what defines an empire: the domination of an organised space, the centralisation of power, the submission of peoples and a political and fiscal apparatus in which law prevails over language and religion. It argues that in the West the idea of empire always refers to the Roman model and traces its history from Rome to Berlin.
First edition. A work from the collection «Histoire générale des systèmes politiques», edited by Maurice Duverger and Jean-François Sirinelli, with contributions by Pierre Bérenger.
For readers interested in the history of empires, political theory and French historiography.
Jean Tulard is a French academic and historian. Considered one of the best specialists of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Napoleonic era, he is nicknamed by his peers "the master of Napoleonic studies".
