Comparing Empires

Author : Ulrike von Hirschhausen
Publisher : Ruprecht Gmbh & Company
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3525310404

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Comparing Empires by Ulrike von Hirschhausen Pdf

English summary: European Empires with their multi-ethnic societies have long been considered as failures, and their history was often presented as a narrative of mere disintegration and decay. With the ever dominating subject of nation-state formation receding, a new scope for considering empires as the much longer and pervasive alternative in European history opens up. Against this background, this volume contributes to a more systematic comparison of the ambivalent and changing relationships between centre and periphery, between colonizers and colonized in the British Empire, the Habsburg Monarchy, Russia and the Ottoman Empire. The spectrum of such relationships reaches from infrastructures and political conflicts to the practice of monarchy and religion and war experiences. A mere addition of case-studies is avoided by inter-relating the contributions on the basis of comparative comments by leading specialists in the respective fields. German text. German description: Europas Grossreiche waren gepragt von ethnischer Differenz und raumlicher Vielfalt. Gerade diese Pluralitat galt lange als Ursache fur Scheitern und Zerfall. Empires pragten die Geschichte Europas jedoch viel langer und starker als die jungen Nationalstaaten, die unsere Vorstellung von Europa bis heute bestimmen. Die Beitrage dieses Bandes vergleichen systematisch vier europaische Empires im 19. und fruhen 20. Jahrhundert: das Britische Empire, die Habsburgermonarchie, Russland und das Osmanische Reich. Wie spannungsreich die Beziehungen zwischen Zentrum und Peripherie sowie zwischen Herrschern und Beherrschten waren, wird am Beispiel von Infrastrukturen, Konflikten und Kriegserfahrungen ebenso deutlich wie anhand der Praxis von Monarchie und Religion.

Author : J. Hart
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781403980656

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Comparing Empires by J. Hart Pdf

By consulting rare manuscripts, images, maps, and books, Jonathan Hart explores the relatively neglected empires of Portugal and the Netherlands to draw new conclusions about those of Spain, France, and England (as well as its successor the US). The book ranges from the Portuguese voyages to Africa to the Spanish-American War of 1898 and concentrates on the frictions and shifting rivalries among the empires.

Author : Christelle Fischer-Bovet,Sitta von Reden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108479257

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Comparing the Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires by Christelle Fischer-Bovet,Sitta von Reden Pdf

First comparative analysis of the role of local elites and populations in the formation of the two main Hellenistic empires.

Author : Walter Scheidel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0199714290

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Rome and China by Walter Scheidel Pdf

Transcending ethnic, linguistic, and religious boundaries, early empires shaped thousands of years of world history. Yet despite the global prominence of empire, individual cases are often studied in isolation. This series seeks to change the terms of the debate by promoting cross-cultural, comparative, and transdisciplinary perspectives on imperial state formation prior to the European colonial expansion. Two thousand years ago, up to one-half of the human species was contained within two political systems, the Roman empire in western Eurasia (centered on the Mediterranean Sea) and the Han empire in eastern Eurasia (centered on the great North China Plain). Both empires were broadly comparable in terms of size and population, and even largely coextensive in chronological terms (221 BCE to 220 CE for the Qin/Han empire, c. 200 BCE to 395 CE for the unified Roman empire). At the most basic level of resolution, the circumstances of their creation are not very different. In the East, the Shang and Western Zhou periods created a shared cultural framework for the Warring States, with the gradual consolidation of numerous small polities into a handful of large kingdoms which were finally united by the westernmost marcher state of Qin. In the Mediterranean, we can observe comparable political fragmentation and gradual expansion of a unifying civilization, Greek in this case, followed by the gradual formation of a handful of major warring states (the Hellenistic kingdoms in the east, Rome-Italy, Syracuse and Carthage in the west), and likewise eventual unification by the westernmost marcher state, the Roman-led Italian confederation. Subsequent destabilization occurred again in strikingly similar ways: both empires came to be divided into two halves, one that contained the original core but was more exposed to the main barbarian periphery (the west in the Roman case, the north in China), and a traditionalist half in the east (Rome) and south (China). These processes of initial convergence and subsequent divergence in Eurasian state formation have never been the object of systematic comparative analysis. This volume, which brings together experts in the history of the ancient Mediterranean and early China, makes a first step in this direction, by presenting a series of comparative case studies on clearly defined aspects of state formation in early eastern and western Eurasia, focusing on the process of initial developmental convergence. It includes a general introduction that makes the case for a comparative approach; a broad sketch of the character of state formation in western and eastern Eurasia during the final millennium of antiquity; and six thematically connected case studies of particularly salient aspects of this process.

Author : David Kenneth Fieldhouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Colonies
ISBN : UOM:39015003499350

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The Colonial Empires by David Kenneth Fieldhouse Pdf

Discusses colonies before 1815 including Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, and British colonies in the Americas and the events leading to their disolution. Then discusses colonies of the British, French, Dutch, Russians, Portuguese, Belgians, Germans and Americans in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific

Author : Yuri Pines,Michal Biran,Jörg Rüpke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108488631

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The Limits of Universal Rule by Yuri Pines,Michal Biran,Jörg Rüpke Pdf

The first comparative study to explore the dynamics of expansion and contraction of major continental empires in Eurasia.

Author : Michael Doyle
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501734137

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Empires by Michael Doyle Pdf

Although empires have shaped the political development of virtually all the states of the modern world, "imperialism" has not figured largely in the mainstream of scholarly literature. This book seeks to account for the imperial phenomenon and to establish its importance as a subject in the study of the theory of world politics. Michael Doyle believes that empires can best be defined as relationships of effective political control imposed by some political societies—those called metropoles—on other political societies—called peripheries. To build an explanation of the birth, life, and death of empires, he starts with an overview and critique of the leading theories of imperialism. Supplementing theoretical analysis with historical description, he considers episodes from the life cycles of empires from the classical and modern world, concentrating on the nineteenth-century scramble for Africa. He describes in detail the slow entanglement of the peripheral societies on the Nile and the Niger with metropolitan power, the survival of independent Ethiopia, Bismarck's manipulation of imperial diplomacy for European ends, the race for imperial possession in the 1880s, and the rapid setting of the imperial sun. Combining a sensitivity to historical detail with a judicious search for general patterns, Empires will engage the attention of social scientists in many disciplines.

Author : Peter Fibiger Bang,C. A. Bayly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230307674

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Tributary Empires in Global History by Peter Fibiger Bang,C. A. Bayly Pdf

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.

Author : Eleonora Rohland,Angelika Epple,Antje Flüchter,Kirsten Kramer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000395396

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Contact, Conquest and Colonization by Eleonora Rohland,Angelika Epple,Antje Flüchter,Kirsten Kramer Pdf

Contact, Conquest and Colonization brings together international historians and literary studies scholars in order to explore the force of practices of comparing in shaping empires and colonial relations at different points in time and around the globe. Whenever there was cultural contact in the context of European colonization and empire-building, historical records teem with comparisons among those cultures. This edited volume focuses on what historical agents actually do when they compare, rather than on comparison as an analytic method. Its contributors are thus interested in the ‘doing of comparison’, and explore the force of these practices of comparing in shaping empires and (post-)colonial relations between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. This book will appeal to students and scholars of global history, as well as those interested in cultural history and the history of colonialism.

Author : Alekse? I. Miller,Alfred J. Rieber
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9639241989

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Imperial Rule by Alekse? I. Miller,Alfred J. Rieber Pdf

Renowned academics compare major features of imperial rule in the 19th century, reflecting a significant shift away from nationalism and toward empires in the studies of state building. The book responds to the current interest in multi-unit formations, such as the European Union and the expanded outreach of the United States. National historical narratives have systematically marginalized imperial dimensions, yet empires play an important role. This book examines the methods discerned in the creation of the Habsburg Monarchy, the Ottoman Empire, the Hohenzollern rule and Imperial Russia. It inspects the respective imperial elites in these empires, and it details the role of nations, religions and ideologies in the legitimacy of empire building, bringing the Spanish Empire into the analysis. The final part of the book focuses on modern empires, such as the German "Reich." The essays suggest that empires were more adaptive and resilient to change than is commonly thought.

Author : Karen Barkey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139472883

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Empire of Difference by Karen Barkey Pdf

This book is a comparative study of imperial organization and longevity that assesses Ottoman successes as well as failures against those of other empires with similar characteristics. Barkey examines the Ottoman Empire's social organization and mechanisms of rule at key moments of its history, emergence, imperial institutionalization, remodeling, and transition to nation-state, revealing how the empire managed these moments, adapted, and averted crises and what changes made it transform dramatically. The flexible techniques by which the Ottomans maintained their legitimacy, the cooperation of their diverse elites both at the center and in the provinces, as well as their control over economic and human resources were responsible for the longevity of this particular 'negotiated empire'. Her analysis illuminates topics that include imperial governance, imperial institutions, imperial diversity and multiculturalism, the manner in which dissent is handled and/or internalized, and the nature of state society negotiations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004519916

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Emerging Powers in Eurasian Comparison, 200–1100 by Anonim Pdf

This book looks at the fall and persistence of empires from the perspective of the powers that replaced them, and compares several cases between China and the West in the first millennium CE with surprisingly similar beginnings and different outcomes.

Author : Jane Burbank,Frederick Cooper
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400834709

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Empires in World History by Jane Burbank,Frederick Cooper Pdf

How empires have used diversity to shape the world order for more than two millennia Empires—vast states of territories and peoples united by force and ambition—have dominated the political landscape for more than two millennia. Empires in World History departs from conventional European and nation-centered perspectives to take a remarkable look at how empires relied on diversity to shape the global order. Beginning with ancient Rome and China and continuing across Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Africa, Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper examine empires' conquests, rivalries, and strategies of domination—with an emphasis on how empires accommodated, created, and manipulated differences among populations. Burbank and Cooper examine Rome and China from the third century BCE, empires that sustained state power for centuries. They delve into the militant monotheism of Byzantium, the Islamic Caliphates, and the short-lived Carolingians, as well as the pragmatically tolerant rule of the Mongols and Ottomans, who combined religious protection with the politics of loyalty. Burbank and Cooper discuss the influence of empire on capitalism and popular sovereignty, the limitations and instability of Europe's colonial projects, Russia's repertoire of exploitation and differentiation, as well as the "empire of liberty"—devised by American revolutionaries and later extended across a continent and beyond. With its investigation into the relationship between diversity and imperial states, Empires in World History offers a fresh approach to understanding the impact of empires on the past and present.

Author : Peter Fibiger Bang,Dariusz Kolodziejczyk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107022676

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Universal Empire by Peter Fibiger Bang,Dariusz Kolodziejczyk Pdf

This book explores the aspiration to universal, imperial rule across Eurasian history from antiquity to the eighteenth century.

Author : 宇山智彦
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Autonomy
ISBN : UIUC:30112108977940

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Comparing Modern Empires by 宇山智彦 Pdf