Ilhan Niaz

New World Empires

Cultures of Power and Governance in the Americas

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is a sweeping reexamination of the evolution of the state, covering the indigenous orders of pre-Columbian America, the Spanish, Portuguese, and British Empires in the Americas, and their major successor states of Mexico, Brazil, and the United States.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• Gewicht: 840g
• ISBN-13: 9781032059815
• ISBN-10: 1032059818
• Artikelnr.: 71186438

Autorenporträt

Ilhan Niaz is Professor of History at the Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan. His previous books include Downfall: Lessons for Our Final Century (2022), The State during the British Raj: Imperial Governance in South Asia, 1700-1947 (2019), and Old World Empires: Cultures of Power and Governance in Eurasia (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Indigenous Orders: Maya Virtue, Aztec Honor, and Inca Royal
Authority in the Americas Prior to the European Advent 2. Occidental
Despotism: The Spanish Empire in the Americas 3. The Portuguese Variant of
Occidental Despotism 4. The Colonial Origins of the American State of Laws
and Constitutional Plutocracy, 1600-1776 5. The Mexican National Empire 6.
"This Will Be a Great Kingdom": Brazil's Path to Legal Democracy and
Arbitrary Rule 7. The Constitutional Plutocratic Empire: The Culture of
Power and Governance of the United States of America. Conclusion