The H-Word: The Peripeteia of Hegemony
Author: Anderson, Perry
ISBN: 9781786633699
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year first published: 04 Apr 2023
Pages: 208 Format: Paperback / softback
Few terms are so widely used in the literature of international relations and political science, with so little agreement about their exact meaning, as hegemony.
In the first full historical study of its fortunes as a concept, Perry Anderson traces its emergence in Ancient Greece and its rediscovery during the upheavals of 1848 1849 in Germany. He then follows its checkered career in revolutionary Russia, fascist Italy, Cold War America, Gaullist France, Thatcher's Britain, post-colonial India, feudal Japan, Maoist China, eventually arriving at twenty-first-century US geopolitics and Germany's place within an expanded European Union.
The result is a surprising and fascinating expedition into global intellectual history.
ISBN: 9781786633699
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year first published: 04 Apr 2023
Pages: 208 Format: Paperback / softback
Few terms are so widely used in the literature of international relations and political science, with so little agreement about their exact meaning, as hegemony.
In the first full historical study of its fortunes as a concept, Perry Anderson traces its emergence in Ancient Greece and its rediscovery during the upheavals of 1848 1849 in Germany. He then follows its checkered career in revolutionary Russia, fascist Italy, Cold War America, Gaullist France, Thatcher's Britain, post-colonial India, feudal Japan, Maoist China, eventually arriving at twenty-first-century US geopolitics and Germany's place within an expanded European Union.
The result is a surprising and fascinating expedition into global intellectual history.
