Tolerance, Ethnicity, and Power

From WritersReps.com: "The Day of Empire (Doubleday, 2007) begins from Ami Chua’s discovery that empires on the rise have strengthened their power with multicultural tolerance, while ethnic stratification of empires has led to decline. Starting with the Han Dynasty of China in 200 A.D. and examining the Roman, Ottoman, Spanish, Dutch, and British empires, as well as the current American question, Chua explores this major world historical pattern."