The Oxford World History of Empire : Volume One: the Imperial Experience
Volume One is dedicated to synthesis and comparison. Following a comprehensive theoretical survey and bold world history synthesis, fifteen chapters analyze and explore the multifaceted experience of empire across cultures and through the ages.
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO,
2021
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| Schlagworte: | Imperialism Electronic books Reich Geschichte |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (585 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Volume One is dedicated to synthesis and comparison. Following a comprehensive theoretical survey and bold world history synthesis, fifteen chapters analyze and explore the multifaceted experience of empire across cultures and through the ages. Cover -- The Oxford World History of Empire -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures, Tables and Maps -- Prolegomena -- 1. Empire-A World History: Anatomy and Concept, Theory and Synthesis -- Systems of Power: military, economy, elites -- 2. The Scale of Empire: Territory, Population, Distribution -- 3. The Evolution of Geopolitics and Imperialism in Interpolity Systems -- 4. Empire and Military Organization -- 5. The Political Economy of Empire: "Imperial Capital" and the Formation of Central and Regional Elites -- Cultures of Power: Symbolic Display, Knowledge, Belief, Discourse -- 6. Imperial Monumentalism, Ceremony, and Forms of Pageantry: The Inter-Imperial Obelisk in Istanbul -- 7. Law, Bureaucracy, and the Practice of Government and Rule -- 8. Mapping, Registering, and Ordering: Time, Space, and Knowledge -- 9. Empire and Religion -- 10. Literature of Empire: Difference, Creativity, and Cosmopolitanism -- Disparities of Power: Hierarchies, Resistance, Resources -- 11. Empires and the Politics of Difference: Pathways of Incorporation and Exclusion -- 12. Resistance, Rebellion, and the Subaltern -- 13. Imperial Metabolism: Empire as a Process of Ecologically Unequal Exchange -- 14. Ecology: Environments and Empires in World History, 3000 bce-ca. 1900 ce -- Memory and Decline -- 15. Memories of Empire: Literature and Art, Nostalgia and Trauma -- 16. The End of Empires -- Index of Places, Names, and Events. This is the first world history of empire, reaching from the third millennium BCE to the present. By combining synthetic surveys, thematic comparative essays, and numerous chapters on specific empires, its two volumes provide unparalleled coverage of imperialism throughout history and across continents, from Asia to Europe and from Africa to the Americas. Only a few decades ago empire was believed to be a thing of the past; now it is clear that it has been and remains one of the most enduring forms of political organization and power. We cannot understand the dynamics and resilience of empire without moving decisively beyond the study of individual cases or particular periods, such as the relatively short age of European colonialism. The history of empire, as these volumes amply demonstrate, needs to be drawn on the much broader canvas of global history. Volume I: The Imperial Experience is dedicated to synthesis and comparison. Following a comprehensive theoretical survey and bold world history synthesis, fifteen chapters analyze and explore the multifaceted experience of empire across cultures and through the ages. The broad range of perspectives includes: scale, world systems and geopolitics, military organization, political economy and elite formation, monumental display, law, mapping and registering, religion, literature, the politics of difference, resistance, energy transfers, ecology, memories, and the decline of empires. This broad set of topics is united by the central theme of power, examined under four headings: systems of power, cultures of power, disparities of power, and memory and decline. Taken together, these chapters offer a comprehensive and unique view of the imperial experience in world history. Volume II: The History of Empires tracks the protean history of political domination from the very beginnings of state formation in the Bronze Age up to the present. Case studies deal with the full range of the historical experience of empire, from the realms of the Achaemenids and Asoka to the empires of Mali and Songhay, and from ancient Rome and China to the Mughals, American settler colonialism, and the Soviet Union. Forty-five chapters detailing the history of individual empires are tied together by a set of global synthesizing surveys that structure the world history of empire into eight chronological phases |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (585 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780197532744 0197532748 9780199772360 0199772363 |