Oxford World History of Empire

Volume One: The Imperial Experience
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-0-19-977236-0
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 584 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1275 g

This is the first world history of empire, reaching from the third millennium BCE to the present. By combining synthetic surveys, thematic comparative essays, and numerous chapters on specific empires, its two volumes provide unparalleled coverage of imperialism throughout history and across continents, from Asia to Europe and from Africa to the Americas. Only a few decades ago empire was believed to be a thing of the past; now it is clear that it has been and remains one of the most enduring forms of political organization and power. We cannot understand the dynamics and resilience of empire without moving decisively beyond the study of individual cases or particular periods, such as the relatively short age of European colonialism. The history of empire, as these volumes amply demonstrate, needs to be drawn on the much broader canvas of global history.

Volume I: The Imperial Experience is dedicated to synthesis and comparison. Following a comprehensive theoretical survey and bold world history synthesis, fifteen chapters analyze and explore the multifaceted experience of empire across cultures and through the ages. The broad range of perspectives includes: scale, world systems and geopolitics, military organization, political economy and elite formation, monumental display, law, mapping and registering, religion, literature, the politics of difference, resistance, energy transfers, ecology, memories, and the decline of empires. This broad set of topics is united by the central theme of power, examined under four headings: systems of power, cultures of power, disparities of power, and memory and decline. Taken together, these chapters offer a comprehensive and unique view of the imperial experience in world history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bang, Peter Fibiger

Bayly, C. A.

Scheidel, Walter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Vol. I - The Imperial Experience

- List of Contributors

- Prolegomena

- PETER FIBIGER BANG

- 1. Empire - a World History: Anatomy and Concept, Theory and Synthesis

- PETER FIBIGER BANG

- 2. The Scale of Empire: Territory, Population, Distribution

- WALTER SCHEIDEL

- 3. The Evolution of Geopolitics and Imperialism in Interpolity Systems

- CHRISTOPHER CHASE-DUNN AND DMYTRO KHUTKYY

- 4. Military Organization

- IAN MORRIS

- 5. The Political Economy of Empire: "Imperial Capital" and the Formation of Central and Regional Elites

- JOHN HALDON

- 6. Imperial Monumentalism, Pageantry, Styles of Comportment and Forms of Consumption: The Inter-Imperial Obelisk in Istanbul

- CECILY J. HILSDALE

- 7. Law, Bureaucracy and the Practice of Government and Rule

- CAROLINE HUMFRESS

- 8. Mapping, Registering, and Ordering: Time, Space, and Knowledge

- LAURA HOSTETLER

- 9. Empire and Religion

- AMIRA K. BENNISON

- 10. Literature of Empire: Difference, Creativity, and Cosmopolitanism

- JAVED MAJEED

- 11. Empires and the Politics of Difference: Social Hierarchies and Cultural Identities

- JANE BURBANK AND FREDERICK COOPER

- 12. Resistance, Rebellion and the Subaltern

- KIM A. WAGNER

- 13. Imperial Metabolism: Empire as a Process of Energy Transfers

- ALF HORNBORG

- 14. Ecology: Environments and Empires in World History, 3000 BCE - c.1900 CE

- EUGENE ANDERSON AND JAMES BEATTIE

- 15. Memories of Empire: Literature and Art, Nostalgia and Trauma

- PHIROZE VASUNIA

- 16. The End of Empires

- JOHN. A. HALL

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Fibiger Bang is Associate Professor of History at the University of Copenhagen.

C. A. Bayly was the Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge.

Walter Scheidel is the Dickason Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Classics and History, and a Kennedy-Grossman Fellow in Human Biology at Stanford University.