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Tributary empires in global history
A pioneering volume comparing the great historical empires, such as the Roman, Mughal and Ottoman. Leading interdisciplinary thinkers study tributary empires from diverse perspectives, illuminating the importance of these earlier forms of imperialism to broaden our perspective on modern concerns about empire and the legacy of colonialism.
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Trade and Empire — In Search of Organizing Concepts for the Roman Economy
The Roman empire differed from their emerging capitalist world in central aspects of state formation and social institutions. Here, Bang scrutinizes the Roman empire's history of economic performance. He tries to sketch a simple, global model of the imperial economy, arguing that this economy doesn't reflect a system which depended on realizing the gains of trade.
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Universal Empire
The claim by certain rulers to universal empire has a long history stretching as far back as the Assyrian and Achaemenid Empires. This book traces its various manifestations in classical antiquity, the Islamic world, Asia and Central America as well as considering seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European discussions of international order. As such it is an exercise in comparative world history combining a multiplicity of approaches, from ancient history, to literary and philosophical studies, to the history of art and international relations and historical sociology. The notion of universal, imperial rule is presented as an elusive and much coveted prize among monarchs in history, around which developed forms of kingship and political culture. Different facets of the phenomenon are explored under three, broadly conceived, headings: symbolism, ceremony and diplomatic relations; universal or cosmopolitan literary high-cultures; and, finally, the inclination to present universal imperial rule as an expression of cosmic order.
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Die Verwaltung der Stadt Rom in der Hohen Kaiserzeit : Formen der Kommunikation, Interaktion und Vernetzung
Das kaiserzeitliche Rom, die Hauptstadt des Imperium Romanum, war die erste Weltstadt des Okzidents. Diese Megalopolis als Herrschaftsraum, Ort der Konsensfindung und des Zusammenlebens von vielleicht einer Million Menschen zu strukturieren, war eine für die Zeit einmalige Herausforderung.
Der Band untersucht die von oben gelenkten Reaktionen auf die „Herausforderung Rom“ in ihren jeweiligen Wechselwirkungen. Um eine Gesamtschau der sozialen, rechtlichen und räumlichen Dimensionen des hauptstädtischen Lebens zu erreichen, versuchen die Beiträge zu klären, wie viel Administration unter den Bedingungen der Zeit notwendig und möglich war, nach welchen Prinzipien Aufgaben verteilt wurden, wie sich Administration innerhalb der Stadt konkretisierte und wie sich die Kaiserrolle und die republikanischen Traditionen zueinander verhielten.
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TRADE AND INDUSTRY
Rather than persevering in a sterile rejection of Finley's ideas, \"Economies Beyond Agriculture in the Classical World\", edited by D. J. Mattingly and J. Salmon, attempts to engage constructively with a basic agrarian perception of the economy. Its aim is to find ways of accommodating our understanding of trade and urban manufacture within the narrow range set in the ancient world by the dominance of agricultural production, often subsistence oriented. Hence the focus is on exploring historical and geographical variations within Greco-Roman civilisation in qualitative and quantitative terms. (Quotes from original text)
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