Citations:empirehood

English citations of empirehood

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• 1915, Victoria Institute, Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, volume 47, page 24

  A great nation, which has achieved nationhood within the last half century, is making, not merely a bid for empirehood, but seeks to extend that to an hegemony of the planet, so that in the words of its ruler, "Nothing shall happen anywhere without Germany having its say in it".

• 1936 May 20, “Exposure of "Dum-Dum" Lie”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[1], The Age, page 11:

  Thus an adventurer's enterprise swayed the racial animosities of a nation on the eve of attaining empirehood.

• 1997, Nancy Schatzman Steinhardt, Liao Architecture, page 423

  In light of the text, the role of Chinese imperial architecture on the Qidan road toward empirehood is again emphatic.

• 2002, Ned J. Jenkins and Richard A. Krause, The Tombigbee Watershed in Southeastern Prehistory, page 25

  But in more prosaic terms, we may see two pathways, or routes, to state and empirehood; one through conquest, which emerged in environmentally circumscribed areas; the other through the pull of market centers in areas with an uneven distribution of important natural resources.

• Zoltan D. Barany and Robert G. Moser (2005) Ethnic Politics after Communism, →ISBN, page 19: “We lack - at least in English - words like "empirehood" and "empire-ness" — the equivalent of "nationhood" and "nationness" (meaning "the quality of being regarded as a nation") that would allow us speak about empire as a variable attribute rather than as a timeless, reified thing.”