The Limits of Universal Rule

Herausgeber: Pines, Yuri; Rüpke, Jörg; Biran, Michal

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores the dynamics of expansion and contraction of major continental empires in Eurasia. It is the first comparative study that systematically addresses the factors - ideological, ecological, military, economical, and other - that shaped the empires' space.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 411
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 606g
• ISBN-13: 9781108726825
• ISBN-10: 1108726828
• Artikelnr.: 66125142

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword; Introduction. Empires and their Space Yuri Pines, with Michal
Biran and Jörg Rüpke; 1. From the Mediterranean to the Indus Valley:
Modalities and Limitations of the Achaemenid Imperial Space Pierre Briant;
2. Limits of All-under-Heaven: Ideology and Praxis of 'Great Unity' in
Early Chinese Empire Yuri Pines; 3. The Roman Empire Wolfgang Spickermann;
4. The Medieval Roman Empire of the East as Spatial Phenomenon (300-1204
CE) Johannes Preiser-Kapeller; 5. Early Islamic Imperial Space A. C. S.
Peacock; 6. The Mongol Imperial Space: From Universalism to Glocalization
Michal Biran; 7. The Territories and Boundaries of Empires: Ottoman,
Safavid and Mughal Stephen F. Dale; 8. Delimiting the Realm under the Ming
Dynasty David M. Robinson; 9. The Expansion of the Qing Empire Before 1800
Matthew W. Mosca; 10. All under the Tsar: Russia's Eurasian Trajectory Jane
Burbank.