ISBN:
9781107022676
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (400 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Universal Empire
DDC:
306.2
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Explores the aspiration to universal, imperial rule across Eurasian history from antiquity to the eighteenth century
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover ; UNIVERSAL EMPIRE; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Maps; Notes on the contributors; Preface; CHAPTER 1 'Elephant of India': universal empire through time and across cultures; UNIVERSAL EMPIRE: THE DYNAMICS OF HEGEMONIC PRE-EMINENCE; A WORLD HISTORICAL SKETCH; THREE THEMATIC KEYS; PART I: Eurasis - antiquity till early modernity; CHAPTER 2 Propaganda and practice in Assyrian and Persian imperial culture; SOURCES; UNIVERSAL POWER; DIPLOMACY; THE GRAND IMPERIAL SPECTACLES
Description / Table of Contents:
CHAPTER 3 Between A´soka and Antiochos: an essay in world history on universal kingship and cosmopolitan culture in the Hellenistic ecumeneALEXANDER'S AXIAL MOMENT; UNIVERSAL KINGSHIP, AXIS OF THE WORLD; THE FABRIC OF EMPIRE: COMPOSITE AND COSMOPOLITAN; CHAPTER 4 The Making of Oriental Rome: shaping the Trojan legend; THE BEARDED PARTHIAN: PORTRAYING THE ENEMY; THE HANDSOME ASIAN: PORTRAYING FRIEND AND FOE; HANDSOME TROJANS AT SPERLONGA; HANDSOME TROJANS IN ROME; ROMANISM - ORIENTALISM - UNIVERSALISM; CHAPTER 5 Pseudo-Aristotelian politics and theology in universal Islam
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CHAPTER 6 The Christian imperial tradition - Greek and Latin1 CHRISTIAN EMPERORS AND THE ROMAN IMAGERY OF POWER; 2 CHRISTIAN INAUGURATION CEREMONIES; 3 EMPIRE BUILDING AND CHRISTIAN INSTITUTIONS; 4 IMPERIAL ESCHATOLOGY; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 7 Khan, caliph, tsar and imperator: the multiple identities of the Ottoman sultan; SULTAN, KHAN, SHAH AND CALIPH; CAESAR, TSAR, BASILEUS AND IMPERATOR; THE OTTOMAN SULTAN AS KING SOLOMON; TYRANT OR EMPEROR? THE OTTOMAN SULTAN IN EUROPEAN EYES; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 8 How the Mughal pādshāhs referenced Iran in their visual construction of universal rule
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CONCLUSIONCHAPTER 9 Ideologies of state building in Vijayanagara and post-Vijayanagara south India: some reflections; I; II; III; IV; CHAPTER 10 Sons of Heaven: the Qing appropriation of the Chinese model of universal empire; MANDATE OF HEAVEN; THE TRIBUTARY SYSTEM; EMERGENCE OF A NORTH-EAST ASIAN POWER; UNIVERSAL EMPIRE: DIPLOMATIC EXCHANGES WITH CHOSŎN; DIPLOMATIC EXCHANGES WITH JAPAN; CONCLUSION; PRIMARY SOURCES; PART II: Contrasting universalisms - old and new world; CHAPTER 11 Aztec universalism: ideology and status symbols in the service of empire-building
Description / Table of Contents:
THE AZTEC EMPIRE: ORGANIZATION AND INTEGRATION MECHANISMSRELIGION AND RITUAL; IMPERIAL EXPANSION: THE AZTEC CONCEPT OF A 'JUST WAR'; STATUS SYMBOLS AND UNIVERSALIZING ELITE CULTURE; IMPERIAL IDEOLOGY IN THE PROVINCES; CHAPTER 12 From empire to commonwealth(s): orders in Europe 1300-1800; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 ORDER IN EUROPE PRIOR TO THE WARS OF RELIGION; The medieval order - realms within society; The Reformation - separating the spheres of power and society; 3 RESTORING AND RECREATING ORDER; 4 ORDERS IN EUROPE 1648-1800; Establishing societies within realms
Description / Table of Contents:
The classical European states-system and its society
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; UNIVERSAL EMPIRE; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Maps; Notes on the contributors; Preface; CHAPTER 1 'Elephant of India': universal empire through time and across cultures; UNIVERSAL EMPIRE: THE DYNAMICS OF HEGEMONIC PRE-EMINENCE; A WORLD HISTORICAL SKETCH; THREE THEMATIC KEYS; PART I: Eurasis - antiquity till early modernity; CHAPTER 2 Propaganda and practice in Assyrian and Persian imperial culture; SOURCES; UNIVERSAL POWER; DIPLOMACY; THE GRAND IMPERIAL SPECTACLES; CHAPTER 3 Between A´soka and Antiochos: an essay in world history on universal kingship and cosmopolitan culture in the Hellenistic ecumeneALEXANDER'S AXIAL MOMENT; UNIVERSAL KINGSHIP, AXIS OF THE WORLD; THE FABRIC OF EMPIRE: COMPOSITE AND COSMOPOLITAN; CHAPTER 4 The Making of Oriental Rome: shaping the Trojan legend; THE BEARDED PARTHIAN: PORTRAYING THE ENEMY; THE HANDSOME ASIAN: PORTRAYING FRIEND AND FOE; HANDSOME TROJANS AT SPERLONGA; HANDSOME TROJANS IN ROME; ROMANISM - ORIENTALISM - UNIVERSALISM; CHAPTER 5 Pseudo-Aristotelian politics and theology in universal Islam; CHAPTER 6 The Christian imperial tradition - Greek and Latin1 CHRISTIAN EMPERORS AND THE ROMAN IMAGERY OF POWER; 2 CHRISTIAN INAUGURATION CEREMONIES; 3 EMPIRE BUILDING AND CHRISTIAN INSTITUTIONS; 4 IMPERIAL ESCHATOLOGY; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 7 Khan, caliph, tsar and imperator: the multiple identities of the Ottoman sultan; SULTAN, KHAN, SHAH AND CALIPH; CAESAR, TSAR, BASILEUS AND IMPERATOR; THE OTTOMAN SULTAN AS KING SOLOMON; TYRANT OR EMPEROR? THE OTTOMAN SULTAN IN EUROPEAN EYES; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 8 How the Mughal pādshāhs referenced Iran in their visual construction of universal rule ...
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