empire or imperialism?

1汪晖 帝国的冲突，或帝国主义时代的冲突？－－《帝国的话语政治》座谈会上的发言 http://wen.org.cn/modules/article/view.article.php/1862

2 Samir Amin has written more than 30 books including Imperialism & Unequal Development, Specters of Capitalism: A Critique of Current Intellectual Fashions, Obsolescent Capitalism: Contemporary Politics and Global Disorder and The Liberal Virus. His memoirs were published in October 2006. also http://monthlyreview.org/2005/10/01/empire-and-multitude

3.Hannah Arendt, Imperialism [= Part II of The Origins of Totalitarianism. But her economics is bad.]

4. Mark Elvin, The Pattern of the Chinese Past [The first section has a very interesting discussion of the determinants of imperial size]

5. William McNeill [Excellent works, whose main flaw is a tactful silence about the American and even the Soviet empires.] The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force and Society since A.D. 1000 The Global Condition: Conquerors, Catastrophe and Community

6Adas, Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance 7 Daniel R. Headrick a) The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century

b) Power over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present [blurb]

8 Bernard Semmel, The Liberal Ideal and the Demons of Empire: Theories of Imperialism from Adam Smith to Lenin 9 George Steinmetz, The Devil's Handwriting: Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa

10 (For a quite annihilating leftist critique of Samir Amin, Arghiri Emmanuel, et al., see Alec Nove's The Economics of Feasibly Socialism.)

mostly from http://www.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/