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Day of empire :  how hyperpowers rise to global dominance--and why they fall / 
 Day of Empire / 
Amy Chua. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  Doubleday,  c2008. 
 - p. cm. 
<br/><br/>The first hegemon : the great Persian empire from Cyrus to Alexander -- Tolerance in Rome's high empire : gladiators, togas, and imperial glue -- China's golden age : the mix-blooded Tang dynasty -- The great Mongol empire : cosmopolitan barbarians -- The "purification" of medieval Spain : inquisition, expulsion, and the price of intolerance -- The Dutch world empire : diamonds, damask, and every "mongrel sect in Christendom" -- Tolerance and intolerance in the East : the Ottoman, Ming, and Mughal empires -- The British empire : "rebel buggers" and the "white man's burden" -- The American hyperpower : tolerance and the microchip -- The rise and fall of the Axis Powers : the strategic price of intolerance -- The challengers : China, the European Union, and India in the twenty-first century -- The day of empire : lessons of history. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780385512848 0385512848 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007015116 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Imperialism--History.<br/>Hegemony--History.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>327.112 Chu   9