Tributary Empires in Global History

1. Front Matter

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2. Tributary Empires — Towards a Global and Comparative History

   1. Tributary Empires — Towards a Global and Comparative History

      • Peter Fibiger Bang, C. A. Bayly

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3. Historiographies of Empire

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Religion, Liberalism and Empires: British Historians and Their Indian Critics in the Nineteenth Century

      • C. A. Bayly

      Pages 21-47

   3. Orientalism and Classicism: The British-Roman Empire of Lord Bryce and His Italian Critics

      • Fabrizio De Donno

      Pages 48-73

   4. The New Order and the Fate of the Old — The Historiographical Construction of an Ottoman Ancien Régime in the Nineteenth Century

      • Baki Tezcan

      Pages 74-95

4. Theoretical Perspectives on Empire

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

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   2. Empire as a Topic in Comparative Sociology

      • W. G. Runciman

      Pages 99-107

   3. Early Imperial Formations in Africa and the Segmentation of Power

      • Michał Tymowski

      Pages 108-119

   4. Post-Nomadic Empires: From the Mongols to the Mughals

      • André Wink

      Pages 120-131

   5. The Process of Empire: Frontiers and Borderlands

      • David Ludden

      Pages 132-150

   6. The Emblematic Province — Sicily from the Roman Empire to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

      • Giovanni Salmeri

      Pages 151-168

5. Comparative Histories

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169

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   2. Lord of All the World — The State, Heterogeneous Power and Hegemony in the Roman and Mughal Empires

      • Peter Fibiger Bang

      Pages 171-192

   3. Fiscal Regimes and the ‘First Great Divergence’ between Eastern and Western Eurasia

      • Walter Scheidel

      Pages 193-204

   4. Tributary Empires: Late Rome and the Arab Caliphate

      • Chris Wickham

      Pages 205-213

   5. Returning the Household to the Patrimonial-Bureaucratic Empire: Gender, Succession, and Ritual in the Mughal, Safavid and Ottoman Empires

      • Stephen P. Blake

      Pages 214-226

   6. Comparisons Across Empires: The Critical Social Structures of the Ottomans, Russians and Habsburgs during the Seventeenth Century

      • Karen Barkey, Rudi Batzell

      Pages 227-261

6. Back Matter

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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.

• colonialism
• global history
• history
• imperialism
• media
• seventeenth century
• world history

'this is an important volume that scholars will mine productively for the information most useful to their own lines of inquiry.' (Laura Hostetler, Journal of World History 2013

'This superb collection is to be warmly welcomed for taking a different approach. Most obviously, it provides a clear sense of the basic character of pre-industrial empires The contributors, justly celebrated as experts in their respective fields, write at the top of their form. Anyone wanting to understand the mechanisms of rule in premodern empires, and much more, would do well to start with this volume.' - John Hall, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

• The Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

  Peter Fibiger Bang

• University of Cambridge, UK

  C. A. Bayly

PETER FIBIGER BANG Associate Professor in the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark KAREN BARKEY Professor of Sociology and History, Columbia University, USA RUDI BATZELL Kellett Fellowship holder, Columbia University, USA, pursuing Mphils in Modern European History and Economic and Social History, Cambridge University, UK C.A. BAYLY Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, University of Cambridge, UK STEPHEN BLAKE Center for Early Modern History, University of Minnesota, USA FABRIZIO DE DONNO Lecturer in Italian Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK DAVID LUDDEN Professor of Political Economy and Globalization, New York University, USA W.G.(GARRY)RUNCIMAN Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, UK GIOVANNI SALMERI Professor of Roman History, the University of Pisa, Italy WALTER SCHEIDEL Professor of Classics and, by courtesy, History, Stanford University, USA BAKI TEZCAN Assistant Professor of History and Religious Studies, the University of California, Davis, USA MICHAL TYMOWSKI Professor of History, the University of Warsaw, Poland CHRIS WICKHAM Chichele Professor of Medieval History, All Souls College, Oxford, UK ANDRÉ WINK Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

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