Empires and Bureaucracy in World History (eBook, ePUB)

From Late Antiquity to the Twentieth Century
Redaktion: Crooks, Peter

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How did empires rule different peoples across vast expanses of space and time? And how did small numbers of imperial bureaucrats govern large numbers of subordinated peoples? Empires and Bureaucracy in World History seeks answers to these fundamental problems in imperial studies by exploring the power and limits of bureaucracy. The book is pioneering in bringing together historians of antiquity and the Middle Ages with scholars of post-medieval European empires, while a genuinely world-historical perspective is provided by chapters on China, the Incas and the Ottomans. The editors identify a paradox in how bureaucracy operated on the scale of empires and so help explain why some empires endured for centuries while, in the contemporary world, empires fail almost before they begin. By adopting a cross-chronological and world-historical approach, the book challenges the abiding association of bureaucratic rationality with 'modernity' and the so-called 'Rise of the West'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316719268
• Artikelnr.: 52850350

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: 1. Empires, bureaucracy and the paradox of power
Peter Crooks and Timothy H. Parsons; Part II. Empires and Bureaucracy in
World-Historical Perspective: 2. China as a contrasting case: bureaucracy
and empire in Song China Patricia Ebrey; 3. Conflict and cooperation
between Arab rulers and Persian administrators in the formative period of
Islamdom, c.600-950 CE I. T. Kristó-Nagy; 4. Bureaucracy without alphabetic
writing: governing the Inca empire, c.1438-1532 Chris Given-Wilson; 5. The
Ottoman empire (1299-1923): the bureaucratization of patrimonial authority
Karen Barkey; Part III. From Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages: 6. 'The
late Roman empire was before all things a bureaucratic state.' Michael
Whitby; 7. Bureaucracies, elites and clans: the case of Byzantium,
c.600-1100 John Haldon; 8. Charlemagne and Carolingian military
administration Bernard S. Bachrach; 9. Bureaucracy, the English state and
the crisis of the Angevin empire, 1199-1205 John Gillingham; 10. The
parchment imperialists: texts, scribes, and the medieval western Empire,
c.1250-c.1440 Len Scales; 11. Before Humpty Dumpty: the first English
empire and the brittleness of bureaucracy, 1259-1453 Peter Crooks; Part
IV. From the Age of European Expansion to the End of Empires: 12.
Magistrates to administrators, composite monarchy to fiscal-military
empire: empire and bureaucracy in the Spanish monarchy, c.1492-1825
Christopher Storrs; 13. Britain's overseas empire before 1780:
overwhelmingly successful and bureaucratically challenged Jack P. Greene;
14. 'Les enfants du siècle': an empire of young professionals and the
creation of bureaucratic, imperial ethos in Napoleonic Europe Michael
Broers; 15. Bureaucracy, power and violence in colonial India: the role of
Indian subalterns Deana Heath; 16. From chief to technocrat: labour and
colonial authority in post-World War II Africa Frederick Cooper; 17. The
unintended consequences of bureaucratic 'modernization' in post-World War
II British Africa Timothy H. Parsons; Part V. Afterword: 18. Empires and
bureaucracy: means of appropriation and media of communication Sam
Whimster.