War And State Formation In Ancient China And Early Modern Europe

Author : Victoria Tin-bor Hui
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139443569

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War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe by Victoria Tin-bor Hui Pdf

The Eurocentric conventional wisdom holds that the West is unique in having a multi-state system in international relations and liberal democracy in state-society relations. At the same time, the Sinocentric perspective believes that China is destined to have authoritarian rule under a unified empire. In fact, China in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods (656–221 BC) was once a system of sovereign territorial states similar to Europe in the early modern period. Both cases witnessed the prevalence of war, formation of alliances, development of the centralized bureaucracy, emergence of citizenship rights, and expansion of international trade. This book, first published in 2005, examines why China and Europe shared similar processes but experienced opposite outcomes. This historical comparison of China and Europe challenges the presumption that Europe was destined to enjoy checks and balances while China was preordained to suffer under a coercive universal status.

Author : Victoria Tin-bor Hui
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : China
ISBN : 0511161379

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War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe by Victoria Tin-bor Hui Pdf

This book, first published in 2005, explores why China and Europe's development of state systems began similarly but experienced opposite outcomes.

Author : Victoria Tin-bor Hui
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : China
ISBN : 0511191219

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War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe by Victoria Tin-bor Hui Pdf

The Eurocentric conventional wisdom holds that the West is unique in having a multi-state system in international relations and liberal democracy in state-society relations. At the same time, the Sinocentric perspective believes that China is destined to have authoritarian rule under a unified empire. In fact, China in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods (656-221 BC) was once a system of sovereign territorial states similar to Europe in the early modern period. Both cases witnessed the prevalence of war, formation of alliances, development of the centralized bureaucracy, emergence of citizenship rights, and expansion of international trade. This book examines why China and Europe shared similar processes but experienced opposite outcomes. This historical comparison of China and Europe challenges the presumption that Europe was destined to enjoy checks and balances while China was preordained to suffer under a coercive universal status.

Author : Tin-bor Hui
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:46356637

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Rethinking War, State Formation, and System Formation by Tin-bor Hui Pdf

Author : Daniel H. Nexon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : Lars Bo Kaspersen,Jeppe Strandsbjerg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107141506

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Does War Make States? by Lars Bo Kaspersen,Jeppe Strandsbjerg Pdf

This engaging volume scrutinises the causal relationship between warfare and state formation, using Charles Tilly's work as a foundation.

Author : Dingxin Zhao
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190463618

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The Confucian-Legalist State: A New Theory of Chinese History by Dingxin Zhao Pdf

In The Confucian-Legalist State, Dingxin Zhao offers a radically new analysis of Chinese imperial history from the eleventh century BCE to the fall of the Qing dynasty. This study first uncovers the factors that explain how, and why, China developed into a bureaucratic empire under the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE. It then examines the political system that crystallized during the Western Han dynasty, a system that drew on China's philosophical traditions of Confucianism and Legalism. Despite great changes in China's demography, religion, technology, and socioeconomic structures, this Confucian-Legalist political system survived for over two millennia. Yet, it was precisely because of the system's resilience that China, for better or worse, did not develop industrial capitalism as Western Europe did, notwithstanding China's economic prosperity and technological sophistication beginning with the Northern Song dynasty. In examining the nature of this political system, Zhao offers a new way of viewing Chinese history, one that emphasizes the importance of structural forces and social mechanisms in shaping historical dynamics. As a work of historical sociology, The Confucian-Legalist State aims to show how the patterns of Chinese history were not shaped by any single force, but instead by meaningful activities of social actors which were greatly constrained by, and at the same time reproduced and modified, the constellations of political, economic, military, and ideological forces. This book thus offers a startling new understanding of long-term patterns of Chinese history, one that should trigger debates for years to come among historians, political scientists, and sociologists.

Author : Lynn Struve
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684173983

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The Qing Formation in World-Historical Time by Lynn Struve Pdf

For many years, the Ming and Qing dynasties have been grouped as “late imperial China,” a temporal framework that allows scholars to identify and evaluate indigenous patterns of social, economic, and cultural change initiated in the last century of Ming rule that imparted a particular character to state and society throughout the Qing and into the twentieth century. This paradigm asserts the autonomous character of social change in China and has allowed historians to create a “China-centered history.” Recently, however, many scholars have begun emphasizing the singular qualities of the Qing. Among the eight contributors to this volume on the formation of the Qing, those who emphasize the Manchu ethos of the Qing tend to see it as part of an early modernity and stress parallel and sometimes mutually reinforcing patterns of political consolidation and cultural integration across Eurasia. Other contributors who examine the Qing formation from the perspective of those who lived through the dynastic transition see the advent of Qing rule as prompting attempts by the Chinese subjects of the new empire to make sense of what they perceived as a historical disjuncture and to rework these understandings into an accommodation to foreign rule. In contrast to the late imperial paradigm, the new ways of configuring the Qing in historical time in both groups of essays assert the singular qualities of the Qing formation.

Author : Jørgen Møller
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134827008

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State Formation, Regime Change, and Economic Development by Jørgen Møller Pdf

Failed or weak states, miscarried democratizations, and economic underdevelopment characterize a large part of the world we live in. Much work has been done on these subjects over the latest decades but most of this research ignores the deep historical processes that produced the modern state, modern democracy and the modern market economy in the first place. This book elucidates the roots of these developments. The book discusses why China was surpassed by Europeans in spite of its early development of advanced economic markets and a meritocratic state. It also hones in on the relationship between geopolitical pressure and state formation and on the European conditions that – from the Middle Ages onwards – facilitated the development of the modern state, modern democracy, and the modern market economy. Finally, the book discusses why some countries have been able to follow the European lead in the latest generations whereas other countries have not. State Formation, Regime Change and Economic Development will be of key interest to students and researchers within political science and history as well as to Comparative Politics, Political Economy and the Politics of Developing Areas.

Author : David Parrott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521514835

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The Business of War by David Parrott Pdf

This book offers a substantial reconsideration of early modern warfare and its relationship to the power of the state.

Author : Sheldon Pollack
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801457906

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War, Revenue, and State Building by Sheldon Pollack Pdf

In a relatively short time, the American state developed from a weak, highly decentralized confederation composed of thirteen former English colonies into the foremost global superpower. This remarkable institutional transformation would not have been possible without the revenue raised by a particularly efficient system of public finance, first crafted during the Civil War and then resurrected and perfected in the early twentieth century. That revenue financed America's participation in two global wars as well as the building of a modern system of social welfare programs.Sheldon D. Pollack shows how war, revenue, and institutional development are inextricably linked, no less in the United States than in Europe and in the developing states of the Third World. He delineates the mechanisms of political development and reveals to us the ways in which the United States, too, once was and still may be a "developing nation." Without revenue, states cannot maintain political institutions, undergo development, or exert sovereignty over their territory. Rulers and their functionaries wield the coercive powers of the state to extract that revenue from the population under their control. From this perspective, the state is seen as a highly efficient machine for extracting societal revenue that is used by the state to sustain itself.War, Revenue, and State Building traces the sources of public revenue available to the American state at specific junctures of its history (in particular, during times of war), the revenue strategies pursued by its political leaders in response to these factors, and the consequential impact of those strategies on the development of the American state.

Author : Jan Glete
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415226449

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War and the State in Early Modern Europe by Jan Glete Pdf

The 16th and 17th centuries saw many ambitious European rulers develop permanent armies and navies. Jan Glete examines this military change as a central part of the political, social and economic transformation of early modern Europe.

Author : Mayfair Mei-hui Yang
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520098640

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Chinese Religiosities by Mayfair Mei-hui Yang Pdf

"Extraordinarily timely and useful. As China emerges as an economic and political world power that seems to have done away with religion, in fact it is witnessing a religious revival. The thoughtful essays in this book show both the historical conflicts between state authorities and religious movements and the contemporary encounters that are shaping China's future. I am aware of no other book that covers so much ground and can be used so well as an introduction to this important field." —Peter van der Veer, University of Utrecht

Author : Brian Sandberg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781509503025

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War and Conflict in the Early Modern World by Brian Sandberg Pdf

In this latest addition to the War & Conflict Through the Ages series, Brian Sandberg offers a truly global examination of the intersections between war, culture, and society in the early modern period. He traces the innovative military technologies and practices that emerged around 1500, exploring the different forms of warfare including dynastic war, religious warfare, raiding warfare, and peasant revolt that shaped conflicts during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He explains how significant social, economic, and political developments transformed warfare on land and at sea at a time of global imperialism and growing mercantilism, forcing states and military systems to respond to rapidly changing situations. Engaging and insightful, War and Conflict in the Early Modern World will appeal to scholars and students of world history, the early modern period, and those interested in the broader relationship between war and society.

Author : Kimberly J. Morgan,Ann Shola Orloff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-27
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9781107135291

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The Many Hands of the State by Kimberly J. Morgan,Ann Shola Orloff Pdf

This book offers a sampling of cutting-edge research on the state, pointing to future directions for research and providing innovative ways of theorizing states.