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. PETER FIBIGER BANG is a Comparative Historian of the Roman Empire. On completing his PhD in Cambridge, UK, he took up a teaching position in Copenhagen,Denmark. He is the author of the 'Roman Bazaar' (Cambridge 2008), editor of 5other volumes and a regular contributor to 'Weekendavisen', a weekly Danish newspaper. . C.A. BAYLY has specialised on the History of India, writing 'Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars '(1983) and 'Empire and Information' (1996). He has co-written 'Forgotten Wars and Forgotten Armies' (2004-6) two studies of the Second World War in Southeast Asia with Tim Harper. In addition he has written 'Imperial Meridian: The British Empire and the world, 1780-1830' (1989) and the 'Birth of the Modern World 1780-1924' (2004) a general world history. INDICE: Figures and Maps - Preface - Notes on Contributors - Tributary Empires: Towards a Global and Comparative History; 'P.F.Bang' & 'C.A.Bayly - '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 régime' in the Nineteenth century;'B.Tezcan' - PART II: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON EMPIRE - Empire as a Topic in Comparative Sociology; 'W.G.Runciman' - Early Imperial Formations in Africaand 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 - '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 -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-30841-1
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Fecha Publicación: 12/08/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés