Empires : How the Arizona Miners' Strike of 1983 Recast Labor-Management Relations in America

Preface 11(8) Imperialism and Empire 19(32) Explaining Imperialism 22(8) Defining Empire 30(21) I Historical Sociology of Empires Introduction to Part I 51(3) Athens and Sparta: Empire and Hegemony 54(28) Athenian Empire 55(3) Spartan Hegemony 58(2) Sources of Imperial Control 60(10) The Metropolitan Thresholds of Empire and Hegemony 70(6) The Peripheral Threshold of Subordination 76(6) Rome 82(22) The Rise of Empire 83(9) The Persistence of Empire 92(6) Decline and Fall 98(6) The Ottoman, Spanish, and English Empires 104(19) The Puzzle of Tribal Empire 105(3) Imperialism, Colonialism, and the Nation-State 108(15) The Sociology of Empires: Hypotheses 123(18) The Inadequacy of Theories of Empire 123(5) Hypotheses on Empire 128(13) II The Scramble for Africa: Nineteenth-Century Imperialism Introduction to Part II 141(21) Tribal Peripheries and Formal Empire 162(36) Tribal Society 163(4) Transnational Relations 167(12) The Niger, 1808--1885 179(12) Caliban's Lament 191(4) Pericentric Theory 195(3) Patrimonial Peripheries and Informal Empire 198(34) Patrimonial Society 198(3) Transnational Relations 201(7) The Nile, 1800--1885 208(10) Avoidance and Resistance 218(8) Collaboration and Informal Rule 226(3) Pericentric Theory Again 229(3) The International System and Nineteenth-Century Imperialism 232(25) The Three International Systems of the Nineteenth Century 234(14) The Colonialization of the Diplomatic System, 1879--1890 248(6) International Systemic Theory 254(3) Greater Britain 257(49) The Transnational Economy 258(17) The Politics of Imperial Strategy 275(20) The Political Economy of Metropolitan Imperialism 295(11) France, Germany, and Spain 306(33) French Imperialism 306(13) German Imperialism 319(12) The Collapse of Spanish Imperialism 331(4) Metrocentric Theory 335(4) The Politics of Nineteenth-Century Imperialism 339(14) Comparative Statics, or the Forms of Empire 341(3) Dynamics of the Scramble 344(9) III Conclusion Imperial Development: The End of Empire? 353(20) The Gold Coast and Imperial Control 354(4) Zanzibar and Decolonization 358(3) The Growth of Imperial Control 361(3) The Stages of Imperial Development 364(5) Decolonization 369(4) Bibliography 373(26) Index 399