Empires and Bureaucracy in World History: From Late Antiquity to the Twentieth Century

ISBN-13: 9781107166035 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 494 str.

Peter Crooks; Timothy Parsons

Opis

A comparative study of the power and limits of bureaucracy in historical empires from ancient Rome to the twentieth century.

Recenzje

'In this rich collection of essays edited by Peter Crooks and Timothy H. Parsons, historians working on diverse regions and eras examine the relationship between the establishment and running of empires and bureaucracy.' Prachi Deshpande, H-Asia

Spis treści

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.