Research Catalog

Title

The limits of universal rule : Eurasian empires compared / edited by Yuri Pines, Michal Biran, Jörg Rüpke.

Publication

• Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Pines, Yuri
• Biran, Michal
• Rüpke, Jörg

Description

xiii, 397 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

"This is a book about Eurasian empires and their spatial dimensions. Which factors prompted the empires' expansion causing some of their leaders to embark on ever more costly wars at the remote frontiers? Which factors, conversely, put limits to this expansion? How did the builders and custodians of major empires conceive of their space? And what measures did they take to integrate this vast space into a coherent political entity? To what extent were the empires' expansion and contraction influenced by common factors - from ecology to ideology, from military and economic considerations to the nature of the ruling elite? How did these distinct factors influence the trajectories of individual empires?"--

Subject

• Imperialism > History
• Space > Political aspects > Eurasia
• Imperialism
• Territorial expansion
• Eurasia > Territorial expansion
• Eurasia

Genre/Form

• History.
• Essays.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Empires and their space / Yuri Pines, with Michal Biran and Jörg Rüpke -- From the Mediterranean to the Indus Valley : modalities and limitations of the Achaemenid imperial space / Pierre Briant -- Limits of all-under-heaven : ideology and praxis of "great unity" in early Chinese empire / Yuri Pines -- The Roman Empire / Wolfgang Spickermann -- The medieval Roman Empire of the East as spatial phenomenon (300-1204 CE) / Johannes Preiser-Kapeller -- Early Islamic imperial space / A.C.S. Peacock -- The Mongol imperial space : from universalism to glocalization / Michal Biran -- The territories and boundaries of empires : Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal / Stephen F. Dale -- Delimiting the realm under the Ming Dynasty / David M. Robinson -- The expansion of the Qing Empire before 1800 / Matthew M. Mosca -- All under the tsar : Russia's Eurasian trajectory / Jane Burbank.

Call Number

JFE 21-2328

ISBN

• 9781108488631
• 1108488633

LCCN

2020029457

OCLC

1178869195

Title

The limits of universal rule : Eurasian empires compared / edited by Yuri Pines, Michal Biran, Jörg Rüpke.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Pines, Yuri, editor.

Biran, Michal, editor.

Rüpke, Jörg, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Limits of universal rule Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 9781108771061 (DLC) 2020029458

Research Call Number

JFE 21-2328