William Reger

The Limits of Empire: European Imperial Formations in Early Modern World History (eBook, ePUB)

Essays in Honor of Geoffrey Parker
Redaktion: Andrade, Tonio

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Published in honor of historian Geoffrey Parker, this volume explores the working of European empires in a global perspective, focusing on one of the most important themes of Parker's work: the limits of empire, which is to say, the centrifugal forces - sacral, dynastic, military, diplomatic, geographical, informational - that plagued imperial formations in the early modern period (1500-1800). Whilst the thirteen chapters in this book focus on a number of geographic regions and adopt different approaches, each shares a focus on, and interest in, the working of empires and the ways that imperial formations dealt with - or failed to deal with - the challenges that beset them. Taken together, they reflect a new phase in the evolving historiography of empire.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 414
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317025320
• Artikelnr.: 44864325

Autorenporträt

William Reger, Tonio Andrade

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Geoffrey Parker and early modern history
Tonio Andrade and William Reger; The limits of empire: an introduction
Tonio Andrade and William Reger; 'Por Dios
por patria': the sacral limits of empire as seen in Catalan political sermons
1630-1641
Andrew Mitchell; Enlightened absolutism and new frontiers for political authority: building towards a state religion in 18th-century Spain
Andrea J. Smidt; The limits of faith in a maritime empire: Mennonites
trade and politics in the Dutch Golden Age
Mary S. Sprunger; Information
gossip and rumor: the limits of intelligence at the early modern court
1558-1585
Denice Fett; Philip II
information overload
and the early modern moment
Paul M. Dover; Italy and the limits of the Spanish empire
Michael J. Levin; The limits of dynastic power: Poland-Lithuania
Sweden and the problem of composite monarchy in the age of the Vasas
1562-1668
Robert I. Frost; The artillery fortress was an engine of European expansion: evidence from East Asia
Tonio Andrade; The limits of empire: the case of Britain
Jeremy Black; The façade of order: claiming imperial space in early modern Russia
Matthew P. Romaniello; Renaissance diplomacy and the limits of empire: Eustace Chapuys
Habsburg imperialisms
and dissimulation as method
Richard Lundell; Distance and misinformation in the conquest of America
Bethany Aram; Brawling behaviors in the Dutch colonial empire: changing norms of fairness?
Pamela McVay; Isabel Clara Eugenia: daughter of the Spanish empire
Cristina Borreguero Beltrán; Messianic imperialism or traditional dynasticism? The grand strategy of Philip II and the Spanish failure in the wars of the 1590s
Edward Shannon Tenace; 'A man's gotta know his limitations': reflections on a misspent past
Geoffrey Parker; Index.