Dynastic Change

Author : Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues,Manuela Santos Silva,Jonathan W. Spangler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351035125

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Dynastic Change by Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues,Manuela Santos Silva,Jonathan W. Spangler Pdf

Dynastic Change: Legitimacy and Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Monarchy examines the strategies for change and legitimacy in monarchies in the medieval and early modern eras. Taking a broadly comparative approach, Dynastic Change explores the mechanisms employed as well as theoretical and practical approaches to monarchical legitimisation. The book answers the question of how monarchical families reacted, adjusted or strategised when faced with dynastic crises of various kinds, such as a lack of a male heir or unfitness of a reigning monarch for rule, through the consideration of such themes as the role of royal women, the uses of the arts for representational and propaganda purposes and the impact of religion or popular will. Broad in both chronological and geographical scope, chapters discuss examples from the 9th to the 18th centuries across such places as Morocco, Byzantium, Portugal, Russia and Western Europe, showing readers how cultural, religious and political differences across countries and time periods affected dynastic relations. Bringing together gender, monarchy and dynasticism, the book highlights parallels across time and place, encouraging a new approach to monarchy studies. It is the perfect collection for students and researchers of medieval and early modern monarchy and gender.

Author : Xiuqi Fang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819702022

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The Social Impacts of Climate Change in China over the Past 2000 Years by Xiuqi Fang Pdf

Author : Eugene N. Anderson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3030168727

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The East Asian World-System by Eugene N. Anderson Pdf

This book studies the East Asian world-system and its dynastic cycles as they were influenced by climate and demographic change, diseases, the expansion of trade, and the rise of science and technology. By studying the history of East Asia until the beginning of the 20th century and offering a comparative perspective on East Asian countries, including China, Japan and Korea, it describes the historical evolution of the East Asian world-system as being the result of good or poor management of the respective populations and environments. Lastly, the book discusses how the East Asian regions have become integrated into a single world-system by a combination of trade, commerce, and military action. Given its scope, the book will appeal to scholars of history, sociology, political science and environmental studies, and to anyone interested in learning about the effects of climate change on the dynamic development of societies.

Author : Eugene N. Anderson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030168704

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The East Asian World-System by Eugene N. Anderson Pdf

This book studies the East Asian world-system and its dynastic cycles as they were influenced by climate and demographic change, diseases, the expansion of trade, and the rise of science and technology. By studying the history of East Asia until the beginning of the 20th century and offering a comparative perspective on East Asian countries, including China, Japan and Korea, it describes the historical evolution of the East Asian world-system as being the result of good or poor management of the respective populations and environments. Lastly, the book discusses how the East Asian regions have become integrated into a single world-system by a combination of trade, commerce, and military action. Given its scope, the book will appeal to scholars of history, sociology, political science and environmental studies, and to anyone interested in learning about the effects of climate change on the dynamic development of societies.

Author : Tan Koon San
Publisher : The Other Press
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789839541885

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Dynastic China by Tan Koon San Pdf

Dynastic China: An Elementary History surveys four millennia of China’s history. It traced commentaries from the mythological period of Pangu, creator of the Chinese universe, and the Goddess Nuwa, creator of the Chinese people, through to the legendary periods of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties to subsequent succeeding dynasties from the Qin Dynasty (221 BC) to the end of the Qing Dynasty (1912 AD). It weaved through brutal political intrigues and conspiracies of China’s imperial existence. The persistent enthronement of child emperors for the benefits of power-hungry eunuchs, dowagers, members of the imperial clans, generals and warlords formed a large part of the narrative. Encrypted within are salient elements of Chinese philosophical precepts, civilisation values, and political ideals. The core concepts that mould the idea of tian xia 天 下 (all under heaven) and tian ming 天 命 (Mandate of Heaven), and how these guided Chinese perception of their world are painstakingly explained. The profound influence of Confucianism and the functional adoption of the Legalist framework in statecraft are imparted in the context of practicality and idealism. So too is the complementary notion of natural dualities, the Yin-Yang (阴 阳) harmony of contradictions. How these filtered through from philosophy to cultural values are deftly introduced. Imperial obsessions with frontier threats are also incisively presented. So are the diplomatic statecraft of matrimonial kinship, tributary exchanges and military engagements adopted to conduct relations. China’s perception of people in the frontier region are insightfully described. The application of the Chinese character yi 夷 to refer to them, it seems, carries a more gracious nuance to mean “of a distinct or different nature” and not the offensive attribution of ‘barbarian’ as made out in western notion. This and many more distinctions in discernment of the Chinese mindset are perceptively elucidated in the book.

Author : Caroline Dunn,Elizabeth Carney
Publisher : Springer
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319758770

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Royal Women and Dynastic Loyalty by Caroline Dunn,Elizabeth Carney Pdf

Royal women did much more to wield power besides marrying the king and producing the heir. Subverting the dichotomies of public/private and formal/informal that gender public authority as male and informal authority as female, this book examines royal women as agents of influence. With an expansive chronological and geographic scope—from ancient to early modern and covering Egypt, Great Britain, the Ottoman Empire, and Asia Minor—these essays trace patterns of influence often disguised by narrower studies of government studies and officials. Contributors highlight the theme of dynastic loyalty by focusing on the roles and actions of individual royal women, examining patterns within dynasties, and considering what factors generated loyalty and disloyalty to a dynasty or individual ruler. Contributors show that whether serving as the font of dynastic authority or playing informal roles of child-bearer, patron, or religious promoter, royal women have been central to the issue of dynastic loyalty throughout the ancient, medieval, and modern eras.

Author : Lipo Wang,Ke Chen,Yew Soon Ong
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1326 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540318637

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Advances in Natural Computation by Lipo Wang,Ke Chen,Yew Soon Ong Pdf

This book and its sister volumes, i.e., LNCS vols. 3610, 3611, and 3612, are the proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC 2005), jointly held with the 2nd International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD 2005, LNAI vols. 3613 and 3614) from 27 to 29 August 2005 in Changsha, Hunan, China.

Author : Daniel H. Nexon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400830800

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The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe by Daniel H. Nexon Pdf

Scholars have long argued over whether the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, which ended more than a century of religious conflict arising from the Protestant Reformations, inaugurated the modern sovereign-state system. But they largely ignore a more fundamental question: why did the emergence of new forms of religious heterodoxy during the Reformations spark such violent upheaval and nearly topple the old political order? In this book, Daniel Nexon demonstrates that the answer lies in understanding how the mobilization of transnational religious movements intersects with--and can destabilize--imperial forms of rule. Taking a fresh look at the pivotal events of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries--including the Schmalkaldic War, the Dutch Revolt, and the Thirty Years' War--Nexon argues that early modern "composite" political communities had more in common with empires than with modern states, and introduces a theory of imperial dynamics that explains how religious movements altered Europe's balance of power. He shows how the Reformations gave rise to crosscutting religious networks that undermined the ability of early modern European rulers to divide and contain local resistance to their authority. In doing so, the Reformations produced a series of crises in the European order and crippled the Habsburg bid for hegemony. Nexon's account of these processes provides a theoretical and analytic framework that not only challenges the way international relations scholars think about state formation and international change, but enables us to better understand global politics today.

Author : Jeroen Duindam,Tülay Artan,Metin Kunt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004206229

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Royal Courts in Dynastic States and Empires by Jeroen Duindam,Tülay Artan,Metin Kunt Pdf

This volume presents new research on royal courts from antiquity to the modern world, from Asia to Europe. It addresses the interactions of rulers and and elites at court, as well as the multiple connections between court, capital, and realm.

Author : Mehran Kamrava
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009224642

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A Dynastic History of Iran by Mehran Kamrava Pdf

Explores the political history of modern Iran, considering the myriad factors that facilitated the rise and fall of the last two dynasties.

Author : John B. Duncan
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295805337

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The Origins of the Choson Dynasty by John B. Duncan Pdf

The Origins of the Choson Dynasty provides an exhaustive analysis of the structure and composition of Korea's central officialdom during the transition from the Koryo dynasty (918-1392) to the Choson dynasty (1392-1910) and offers a new interpretation of the history of traditional Korea.

Author : Wiebke Denecke,Wai-yee Li,Xiaofei Tian
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199356591

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The Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature (1000 BCE-900 CE) by Wiebke Denecke,Wai-yee Li,Xiaofei Tian Pdf

This handbook of Classical Chinese literature from 1000 bce through 900 ce aims to provide a solid introduction to the field, inspire scholars in Chinese Studies to explore innovative conceptual frameworks and pedagogical approaches in the studying and teaching of classical Chinese literature, and facilitate a comparative dialogue with scholars of premodern East Asia and other classical and medieval literary traditions around the world. The handbook integrates issue-oriented, thematic, topical, and cross-cultural approaches to the classical Chinese literary heritage with historical perspectives. It introduces both literature and institutions of literary culture, in particular court culture and manuscript culture, which shaped early and medieval Chinese literary production.

Author : David Der-wei Wang,Shang Wei
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684174140

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Dynastic Crisis and Cultural Innovation by David Der-wei Wang,Shang Wei Pdf

"This volume addresses cultural and literary transformation in the late Ming (1550–1644) and late Qing (1851–1911) eras. Although conventionally associated with a devastating sociopolitical crisis, each of these periods was also a time when Chinese culture was rejuvenated. Focusing on the twin themes of crisis and innovation, the seventeen chapters in this book aim to illuminate the late Ming and late Qing as eras of literary-cultural innovation during periods of imperial disintegration; to analyze linkages between the two periods and the radical heritage they bequeathed to the modern imagination; and to rethink the “premodernity” of the late Ming and late Qing in the context of the end of the age of modernism. The chapters touch on a remarkably wide spectrum of works, some never before discussed in English, such as poetry, drama, full-length novels, short stories, tanci narratives, newspaper articles, miscellanies, sketches, familiar essays, and public and private historical accounts. More important, they intersect on issues ranging from testimony about dynastic decline to the negotiation of authorial subjectivity, from the introduction of cultural technology to the renewal of literary convention."

Author : Weiming Tu
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0674117549

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China in Transformation by Weiming Tu Pdf

10 of the 11 articles first published in Vol 22 no. 2, 1993 issue of Daedalus.

Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Chinese University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9622012124

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Science in Traditional China by Joseph Needham Pdf