作者:
Jane Burbank
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Frederick Cooper 出版社: Princeton University Press 副标题: Power and the Politics of Difference 出版年: 2010-5-16 页数: 528 定价: USD 57.50 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9780691127088
Empires - vast states of territories and peoples united by force and ambition - have dominated the political landscape for more than two millennia. "Empires in World History" departs from conventional European and nation-centered perspectives to take a remarkable look at how empires relied on diversity to shape the global order. Beginning with ancient Rome and China and continu...
Empires - vast states of territories and peoples united by force and ambition - have dominated the political landscape for more than two millennia. "Empires in World History" departs from conventional European and nation-centered perspectives to take a remarkable look at how empires relied on diversity to shape the global order. Beginning with ancient Rome and China and continuing across Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Africa, Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper examine empires' conquests, rivalries, and strategies of domination - with an emphasis on how empires accommodated, created, and manipulated differences among populations. Burbank and Cooper examine Rome and China from the third century BCE, empires that sustained state power for centuries. They delve into the militant monotheism of Byzantium, the Islamic Caliphates, and the short-lived Carolingians, as well as the pragmatically tolerant rule of the Mongols and Ottomans, who combined religious protection with the politics of loyalty. Burbank and Cooper discuss the influence of empire on capitalism and popular sovereignty, the limitations and instability of Europe's colonial projects, Russia's repertoire of exploitation and differentiation, as well as the 'empire of liberty' - devised by American revolutionaries and later extended across a continent and beyond. With its investigation into the relationship between diversity and imperial states, "Empires in World History" offers a fresh approach to understanding the impact of empires on the past and present.
作者简介
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Jane Burbank is professor of history and Russian and Slavic studies at New York University. Her books include Intelligentsia and Revolution and Russian Peasants Go to Court.
Frederick Cooper is professor of history at New York University. His books include Decolonization and African Society and Colonialism in Question.
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Sustaining and expanding control depended not just on violence but on the ongoing linkage of human and economic resources to central power.
Roman's political and cultural innovations drew old and new elites into government and army.
The source of the magistrates' authority was election by Rome's soldier-citizens. By creating a body of citizens whose decisions were the source of law, Romans took sovereignty out of royal or celestial hands and located it in themselves.This radical move from kingship to republic was accompanied by measures designed to prevent a return to one-man rule.
Throughout the republic in practice adn in principle during later Roman history, the source of law was the Roman people....the approval of assemblies of citizens was essential to making a magistrate's proposal i... (查看原文)
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