Tributary empires in global history / edited by Peter Fibiger Bang, C. A. Bayly.

Other author Bang, Peter F. (Peter Fibiger)
Other author Bayly, C. A. (Christopher Alan)
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Descriptionxiii, 294 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
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SeriesCambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series. ^A492702
Contents Figures and Maps -- Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Tributary Empires: Towards a Global and Comparative History; P.F.Bang&C.A.Bayly
Contents PART I: HISTORIOGRAPHIES OF EMPIRE -- Religion, Liberalism and Empires: British Historians and their Indian Critics in the Nineteenth Century; C.A.Bayly -- Orientalism and Classicism: the British-Roman Empire of Lord Bryce and his Italian Critics; F.De Donno -- The New Order and the Fate of the Old: The Historiographical Construction of an Ottoman ancien re;gime in the Nineteenth century; B.Tezcan
Contents PART II: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON EMPIRE -- Empire as a Topic in Comparative Sociology; W.G.Runciman -- Early Imperial Formations in Africa and the Segmentation of Power; M.Tymowski -- Post-Nomadic Empires: From the Mongols to the Mughals; A.Wink -- The Process of Empire: Frontiers and Borderlands; D.Ludden -- The Emblematic Province: Sicily from the Roman Empire to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies; G.Salmeri
Contents PART III: COMPARATIVE HISTORIES -- Lord of All the World: the State, Heterogeneous Power and Hegemony in the Roman and Mughal Empires; P.F.Bang -- Fiscal Regimes and the 'First Great Divergence' between Eastern and Western Eurasia; W.Scheidel -- Late Rome and the Arab Caliphate; C.Wickham -- Returning the Household to the Tributary Empire Model: Gender, Succession, and Ritual in the Mughal, Safavid, and Ottoman Empires; S.Blake -- Comparisons Across Empires: The Critical Social Structures of the Ottomans, Russians and Habsburgs during the Seventeenth Century; K.Barkey&R.Batzell -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index
Abstract A pioneering volume comparing the great historical empires, such as the Roman, Mughal and Ottoman. Leading interdisciplinary thinkers study tributary empires from diverse perspectives, illuminating the importance of these earlier forms of imperialism to broaden our perspective on modern concerns about empire and the legacy of colonialism.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 263-289) and index.
LCCN 2011011744
ISBN9780230308411 (pbk.)
ISBN0230308414 (pbk.)
ISBN0230294723
ISBN9780230294721 (hardback)

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Joyner General Stacks JC359 .T67 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold