The Limits of Universal Rule

ISBN-13: 9781108726825 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 411 str.

Opis

The first comparative study to explore the dynamics of expansion and contraction of major continental empires in Eurasia.

Recenzje

'A captivating collection of essays about empires of the past and the factors that determined their territorial extent. Alongside a few familiar examples, such as Rome and the Mongols, are many little-studied empires in the Islamic world, Russia, and China. Consistently compelling reading.' Valerie Hansen, author of The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the Globe—and Globalization Began

Spis treści

Foreword; Introduction. Empires and their Space Yuri Pines, with Michal Biran and Jörg Rüpke; 1. From the Mediterranean to the Indus Valley: Modalities and Limitations of the Achaemenid Imperial Space Pierre Briant; 2. Limits of All-under-Heaven: Ideology and Praxis of 'Great Unity' in Early Chinese Empire Yuri Pines; 3. The Roman Empire Wolfgang Spickermann; 4. The Medieval Roman Empire of the East as Spatial Phenomenon (300-1204 CE) Johannes Preiser-Kapeller; 5. Early Islamic Imperial Space A. C. S. Peacock; 6. The Mongol Imperial Space: From Universalism to Glocalization Michal Biran; 7. The Territories and Boundaries of Empires: Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal Stephen F. Dale; 8. Delimiting the Realm under the Ming Dynasty David M. Robinson; 9. The Expansion of the Qing Empire Before 1800 Matthew W. Mosca; 10. All under the Tsar: Russia's Eurasian Trajectory Jane Burbank.