RECONCEPTUALISATION OF IMPERIALISM in the Context of Rome and the US

By Moses Oyelade

Since scholarship began on imperialism issues about it have been largely considered from perspectives of effects of empires, wrongfully neglecting the critical signals of causality for Roman imperialism, although Rome has been its scholastic basis.In this book, the author has tried to separate imperialism from empire and use Rome and the USA to reconceptualise imperialism free from the effects of empires, hinging imperialism rather on the necessities of natural politics than ability of empires. It is argued in the book that the European international behaviours were limited in terms to empire and should not be seen as imperialism in the context of scholarship in international behaviours of ancient Rome and the USA.This method has rewardfully offered new definitions, new single theory instead of the extant plethora of theories, new typology and a model of imperialism, all which present imperialism as necessitated, prompted and rather justified in the context in which it has occurred. To affirm this, the author drew out positive adaptation of imperialism as a model of development. He has, indeed, set new thinking in the fields of political history, international politics and relatio

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 6139940982
• ISBN13: 9786139940981
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"