Universal empire : a comparative approach to imperial culture and representation in Eurasian history

Universal empire : a comparative approach to imperial culture and representation in Eurasian history /

"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 Near Eastern and classical antiquity, the Islamic world, Asia and Central America as well as considering seventeenth-...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Bang, Peter F. (Peter Fibiger), Kołodziejczyk, Dariusz
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012
Subjects:
Imperialism > History.
Kings and rulers > History.
Imperialism > Social aspects > History.
Imperialism > Philosophy.
Political culture > History.
Civilization > History.
World history.
World politics > To 1900.
Eurasia > History.
Eurasia > Politics and government.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 1. 'Elephant of India': universal empire through time and across cultures / Peter Fibiger Bang with Dariusz Kołodziejczyk
  • Part I. Eurasia : Antiquity till Early Modernity: 2. Propaganda and practice in Assyrian and Persian imperial culture / Gojko Barjamovic
  • 3. Between Aśoka and Antiochos: an essay in world history on universal kingship and cosmopolitan culture in the Hellenistic ecumene / Peter Fibiger Bang
  • 4. The making of Oriental Rome: shaping the Trojan legend / Rolf Michael Schneider
  • 5. Pseudo-Aristotelian politics and theology in universal Islam / Garth Fowden
  • 6. The Christian imperial tradition, Greek and Latin / Judith Herrin and Dimiter Angelov
  • 7. Khan, Caliph, Tsar and Imperator: the multiple identities of the Ottoman Sultan / Dariusz Kołodziejczyk
  • 8. How the Mughal Padshahs referenced Iran in their visual construction of universal rule / Ebba Koch
  • 9. Ideologies of state building in Vijayanagara and Post-Vijayanagara South India: some reflections / Velcheru Narayana Rao and Sanjay Subrahmanyam
  • 10. Sons of Heaven: the Qing appropriation of the Chinese model of universal empire / Evelyn S. Rawski
  • Part II. Contrasting Universalisms : Old and New World; 11. Aztec universalism: ideology and status symbols in the service of empire-building / Justyna Olko
  • 12. From empire to Commonwealth(s): orders in Europe, 1300-1800 / Peter Haldén
  • 13. Imperial universalism: further thoughts / John A. Hall.

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