The Limits of Universal Rule: Eurasian Empires Compared - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1108488633 ISBN 13 : 9781108488631

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2021

Synopsis

All major continental empires proclaimed their desire to rule 'the entire world', investing considerable human and material resources in expanding their territory. Each, however, eventually had to stop expansion and come to terms with a shift to defensive strategy. This volume explores the factors that facilitated Eurasian empires' expansion and contraction: from ideology to ecology, economic and military considerations to changing composition of the imperial elites. Built around a common set of questions, a team of leading specialists systematically compare a broad set of Eurasian empires - from Achaemenid Iran, the Romans, Qin and Han China, via the Caliphate, the Byzantines and the Mongols to the Ottomans, Safavids, Mughals, Russians, and Ming and Qing China. The result is a state-of-the art analysis of the major imperial enterprises in Eurasian history from antiquity to the early modern that discerns both commonalities and differences in the empires' spatial trajectories.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Yuri Pines is Michael W. Lipson Professor in Chinese Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Michal Biran is Max and Sophie Maydans Foundation Professor in the Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Jörg Rüpke is Fellow in Religious Studies and Vice-Director of the Max Weber Centre at Erfurt, Germany.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108488633
• ISBN 13: 9781108488631
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 350
• Éditeur: Pines Yuri, Biran Michal, Rüpke Jörg
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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