Dominic Lieven: Author, Award-winning Historian, and Scholar
Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People
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The Costs of Empire
If you were going to build an empire to day, how would you do it? I think you wouldn't is the quick answer. You'ld have to build a sort of neo empire ima. The people i studied for my book emperorsm and this is very much the point. Empires were always devils to govern because they were enormous,. And trying to control and govern them, given pre modern communications, was a nightmare. But most empires, most of the time, the emperor and his ministers councillors, really only had to worry about the top two % of the population. That's not true nowadays. In the era of urbanization, mass literacy, mass politics, god help us
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