Tributary Empires in Global History

Figures and Maps Preface Notes on Contributors Tributary Empires: Towards a Global and Comparative History; P.F.Bang & C.A.Bayly PART I: HISTORIOGRAPHIES OF EMPIRE Religion, Liberalism and Empires: British Historians and their Indian Critics in the Nineteenth Century; C.A.Bayly Orientalism and Classicism: the British-Roman Empire of Lord Bryce and his Italian Critics; F.De Donno The New Order and the Fate of the Old: The Historiographical Construction of an Ottoman ancien régime in the Nineteenth century; B.Tezcan PART II: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON EMPIRE Empire as a Topic in Comparative Sociology; W.G.Runciman Early Imperial Formations in Africa and the Segmentation of Power; M.Tymowski Post-Nomadic Empires: From the Mongols to the Mughals; A.Wink The Process of Empire: Frontiers and Borderlands; D.Ludden The Emblematic Province: Sicily from the Roman Empire to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies; G.Salmeri PART III: COMPARATIVE HISTORIES Lord of All the World: the State, Heterogeneous Power and Hegemony in the Roman and Mughal Empires; P.F.Bang Fiscal Regimes and the 'First Great Divergence' between Eastern and Western Eurasia; W.Scheidel Late Rome and the Arab Caliphate; C.Wickham Returning the Household to the Tributary Empire Model: Gender, Succession, and Ritual in the Mughal, Safavid, and Ottoman Empires; S.Blake Comparisons Across Empires: The Critical Social Structures of the Ottomans, Russians and Habsburgs during the Seventeenth Century; K.Barkey & R.Batzell Endnotes Bibliography Index