The Oxford World History Of Empire Volume One: The Imperial Experience 1st Edition Edition Peter Fibiger Bang

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0199772363
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0199772360
• Author(s): Peter Fibiger Bang, C. A. Bayly, Walter Scheidel

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.

Table contents:

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

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