Empires and bureaucracy in world history : from late antiquity to the twentieth century / edited by...
Empires and bureaucracy in world history : from late antiquity to the twentieth century / edited by...
Empires and bureaucracy in world history : from late antiquity to the twentieth century / edited by Peter Crooks, Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin and Timothy Parsons , Washington University in St Louis.
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Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Call Numbers
G 2016/4201
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Language
English
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Physical content
xxii, 474 pages : maps ; 23 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Empires, bureaucracy and the paradox of power / Peter Crooks and Timothy H. Parsons -- China as a contrasting case: bureaucracy and empire in Song China / Patricia Ebrey -- Conflict and cooperation between Arab rulers and Persian administrators in the formative period of Islamdom, c.600-950 CE / Ist...
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Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2016.
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Summary
"The book is pioneering in bringing together historians of antiquity and the Middle Ages with scholars of post-medieval European empires, while a genuinely world-historical perspective is provided by chapters on China, the Incas and the Ottomans. The editors identify a paradox in how bureaucracy operated on the scale of empires and so help explain...
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Full title
Empires and bureaucracy in world history : from late antiquity to the twentieth century / edited by Peter Crooks, Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin and Timothy Parsons , Washington University in St Louis.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2016/4201
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74VKVm5Qdygl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVm5Qdygl
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ISBN
1316617289 (paperback)
9781107166035 (hardback)
1107166039 (hardback)
9781316617281 (paperback)
DDC
325.3209
MMS ID
991024018961802626
