Universal Empire

Herausgeber: Bang, Peter Fibiger; Ko¿odziejczyk, Dariusz

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the aspiration to universal, imperial rule across Eurasian history from antiquity to the eighteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 728g
• ISBN-13: 9781107022676
• ISBN-10: 1107022673
• Artikelnr.: 35502022

Inhaltsangabe

1. 'Elephant of India' - universal empire through time and across cultures
Peter Fibiger Bang with Dariusz Köodziejczyk; Part I. Eurasia - Antiquity
till Early Modernity: 2. Propaganda and practice in Assyrian and Persian
imperial culture Gojko Barjamovic; 3. Between A¿oka and Antiochos - an
essay in world history on universal kingship and cosmopolitan culture in
the Hellenistic ecumene Peter Fibiger Bang; 4. The making of Oriental Rome:
shaping the Trojan legend Rolf Michael Schneider; 5. Pseudo-Aristotelian
politics and theology in universal Islam Garth Fowden; 6. The Christian
imperial tradition, Greek and Latin Judith Herrin and Dimiter Angelov; 7.
Khan, Caliph, Tsar and Imperator: the multiple identities of the Ottoman
Sultan Dariusz Köodziejczyk; 8. How the Mughal Padshahs referenced Iran in
their visual construction of universal rule Ebba Koch; 9. Ideologies of
state building in Vijayanagara and Post-Vijayanagara South India: some
reflections Velcheru Narayana Rao and Sanjay Subrahmanyam; 10. Sons of
Heaven: the Qing appropriation of the Chinese model of universal empire
Evelyn S. Rawski; Part II. Contrasting Universalisms - Old and New World:
11. Aztec universalism: ideology and status symbols in the service of
empire-building Justyna Olko; 12. From empire to Commonwealth(s) - orders
in Europe, 1300-1800 Peter Haldén; 13. Imperial universalism - further
thoughts John A. Hall.