Conflicts of Empires is a text relative to our course due to the fat that it goes far in depth into the relations of multiple empires from the time of 1585-1713. Although I noticed that the book focused mainly on European empires and their relations to the economy at the time and to other facets of life, the book still pertains to our class because it would allow any student to see the inner workings and disputes behind the major events we discuss in class. The book discusses art and diplomacy in Europe, Amsterdam and the stock exchange, the Jews of Spain, and propaganda in the makings of the glorious revolution. Almost every facet of life that an empire is in control of is talked about in this book. Although focusing on European empires is not all our class does, this book provides more background information over the European empires that we discuss. Just because other continental empires are not discussed shouldn’t matter since this book would add to our knowledge of an essential part of the course. The terms I used to find the book was ‘empires’. As conflict is one of the foremost topics we discuss in class I figured Conflicts of Empires would be a good fit.