Day of Empire_ How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance--And Why They Fall - Amy Chua [181]
7. Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (New York: Vintage Books, 1989); Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (New York: Penguin, 2005).
8. Post-9/11 writings on the possibility of an American empire include Andrew J. Bacevich, American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy (New York: Penguin, 2004); Ferguson, Colossus: The Price of America's Empire, pp. 3, 301-2; Deepak Lai, In Praise of Empires: Globalization and Order (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), p. 215; and Michael Walzer, “Is There an American Empire?” Dissent (Fall 2003).
9. Population and territory estimates for both the Aztec and Roman empires vary significantly. For support for the figures I cite, see Richard E. W. Adams, Prehistoric Mesoamerica (Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1977), p. 36; Michael E. Smith, The Aztecs, 2nd ed. (Maiden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2003), pp. 57-59; Dirk R. Van Tuerenhout, The Aztecs: New Perspectives (Santa Barbara: ABC Clio, 2005), pp. 14618; and Keith Hopkins, “Conquerors and Slaves: The Impact of Conquering an Empire on the Political Economy of Italy,” in Craige B. Champion, ed., Roman Imperialism: Readings and Sources (Maiden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2004), p. 108.
10. There is a large, multidisciplinary academic literature on the history of tolerance. For a sampling of different perspectives, see Peter Garnsey, “Religious Toleration in Classical Antiquity,” in W. J. Shells, ed., Persecution and Toleration (Great Britain: Blackwell, 1984); John Christian Laursen and Cary J. Nederman, eds., Beyond the Persecuting Society: Religious Toleration Before the Enlightenment (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998); W. K. Jordan, The Development of Religious Toleration in England, vol. 1 (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1932); Wendy Brown, Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006); and Henry Kamen, The Rise of Toleration (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967). For two excellent collections of essays, on which I relied heavily, see Ole Peter Grell and Roy Porter, eds., Toleration in Enlightenment Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) and Ruth Whelan and Carol Baxter, eds., Toleration and Religious Identity: The Edict of Nantes and Its Implications in France, Britain and Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003).
11. See J.P.V.D. Balsdon, Romans and Aliens (London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., 1979), pp. 2, 59-60, 214-15; A. N. Sherwin-White, Racial Prejudice in Imperial Rome (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967), pp. 57-58.
12. See generally Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992); Colin Haydon, Anti-Catholicism in Eighteenth-Century England c. 1714-80: A Political and Social Study (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993).
13. Thomas L. Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree (New York: Anchor Books, 2000), pp. ix, xvi, 12; see also Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man (New York: Avon Books, Inc., 1992).
14. See Office of the President, “The National Security Strategy of the United States of America” (Sept. 2002), available at www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss.pdf.; Ferguson, Colossus, pp. 3, 301-2; Max Boot, “The Case for American Empire,” Weekly Standard, Oct. 15, 2001, pp. 28-29; Michael Ignatieff, “The Burden,” New York Times Magazine, Jan. 5,2003, p. 22; Paul Johnson, “The Answer to Terrorism? Colonialism,” Wall Street Journal, Oct. 9, 2001.
15. Ignatieff, “The Burden,” p. 22.
16. Thomas Friedman, “Liberal Hawks Reconsider the Iraq War: Four Reasons to Invade Iraq,” Slate.com, Jan. 12, 2004; Ignatieff, “The Burden,” p. 22.
17. Samuel P. Huntington,