The Oxford World History of Empire

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
World History ◽  
World Systems ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Military Organization ◽  
Politics Of Difference ◽  
Energy Transfers ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Empire ◽  
Elite Formation

The Oxford World History of Empire, Vol.1: The Imperial Experience is dedicated to synthesis and comparison. Following a comprehensive theoretical survey and world-historical synthesis, fifteen chapters analyze and explore the multifaceted experience of empire across cultures and through five millennia. The broad range of perspectives includes: scale, world systems and geopolitics, military organization, political economy and elite formation, monumental display, law, mapping and registering, religion, literature, the politics of difference, resistance, energy transfers, ecology, memories, and the decline of empires. This broad set of topics is united by the central theme of power, examined under four headings: systems of power, cultures of power, disparities of power, and memory and decline. Taken together, these chapters offer a comprehensive view of the imperial experience in world history

scholarly journals The European present as World history

2007 ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Göran Therborn
Keyword(s):  
European Society ◽  
World History ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
World Systems ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
Society Today

The task of analyzing European society may be approached from many angles. The one chosen here is a global comparative perspective, an effort to step outside the tempting but myopic and often misleading familiarity of inside experience. Let us look at European society today as part of world history. What does it mean to grasp the present as history? It means to look out for how the current situation is related to the past, and, above all, to the future. We shall here try to locate Europe in the history of modernity, and, secondly, in the dynamics of the world systems, systems in plural, as I shall explain later.

The Oxford World History of Empire

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
World History ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Ancient Rome ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Empire ◽  
European Colonialism

The Oxford World History of Empire, Vol. 2: The History of Empires tracks the protean history of political domination from the very beginnings of state formation in the Bronze Age up to the present. Case studies deal with the full range of the historical experience of empire, from the realms of the Achaemenids and Ašoka to the empires of Mali and Songhay, and from ancient Rome and China to the Mughals, American settler colonialism, and the Soviet Union. Forty-five chapters detailing the history of individual empires are tied together by a set of global synthesizing surveys that structure the world history of empire into eight chronological phases. Only a few decades ago empire was believed to be a thing of the past; now it is clear that it has been and remains one of the most enduring forms of political organization and power. We cannot understand the dynamics and resilience of empire without moving decisively beyond the study of individual cases or particular periods, such as the relatively short age of European colonialism. The history of empire, as this volume amply demonstrate, needs to be drawn on the much broader canvas of global history.

scholarly journals Transportation, Deportation and Exile: Perspectives from the Colonies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (S26) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian G. De Vito ◽  
Clare Anderson ◽  
Ulbe Bosma
Keyword(s):  
Critical Period ◽  
World History ◽  
Political Repression ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Penal Colonies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Gender Space ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
History Of Empire

AbstractThe essays in this volume provide a new perspective on the history of convicts and penal colonies. They demonstrate that the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were a critical period in the reconfiguration of empires, imperial governmentality, and punishment, including through extensive punitive relocation and associated extractive labour. Ranging across the global contexts of Africa, Asia, Australasia, Japan, the Americas, the Pacific, Russia, and Europe, and exploring issues of criminalization, political repression, and convict management alongside those of race, gender, space, and circulation, this collection offers a perspective from the colonies that radically transforms accepted narratives of the history of empire and the history of punishment. In this introduction, we argue that a colony-centred perspective reveals that, during a critical period in world history, convicts and penal colonies created new spatial hierarchies, enabled the incorporation of territories into spheres of imperial influence, and forged new connections and distinctions between “metropoles” and “colonies”. Convicts and penal colonies enabled the formation of expansive and networked global configurations and processes, a factor hitherto unappreciated in the literature.

The Origins of Hegel's Knowledge of English

1983 ◽  
Vol 4 (01) ◽  
pp. 8-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norbert Waszek
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Present Article ◽  
World History ◽  
Indirect Evidence ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Political Life ◽  
History Of

A detailed and full-scale study of “Hegel and the ‘Gelstesleben’ of Great Britain” is still lacking. What we have, Instead, are either rough sketches for a later painting, or individual pieces for a mosaic, of which plenty of stones have not yet been produced. It has become clear, however, that any full-scale study would Involve at least five major areas: a) Hegel's interest in and reaction to the political life of Great Britain, from the allusion to Pitt's politics of the 1790s to the Reform Bill article of 1831; b) Hegel's indebtedness to Scottish political economy and theory of civil society (Ferguson, Hume, Steuart, Smith); c) Hegel's assessment of British works of art (e.g. Shakespeare, Milton, Scott) and aesthetic theories (Shaftesbury, Kames); d) Hegel's discussion of British philosophers in the History of Philosophy (Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Berkely, Hume, Scottish School); e) Hegel's study of British historians (Gibbon, Hume) and his description of England's role in world history. For the extent and dates of Hegel's contacts with these British sources, and to compare and identify them with certain passages from Hegel's writings, ths question of his knowledge of English is of considerable importance, rather than being a matter of mere biographical curiosity. However, before raising expectations too high, it must be emphasized that the present article does not provide, nor indeed pretend to provide, an ultimate answer to this question: a watertight proof has not yet come to light. What is hoped to be achieved is, firstly, to bring together the available direct and indirect evidence on the issue. Secondly, to draw some conclusions from the admittedly inconclusive material. These conclusions should be seen as first hypotheses which any scholar can scrutinize on the basis of the evidenoe presented. The greatest reward for the present attempt would be to spark off further research which eventually might result in finding further evidence.

Empire and Military Organization

2021 ◽  
pp. 155-178
Author(s):  
Ian Morris
Keyword(s):  
Military Organization ◽  
Military Organizations ◽  
Organized Violence ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Empire

The history of empire is the history of organized violence. The ability to impose and manage violence is the most basic demand and highest priority for the survival of any empire. This chapter outlines the various forms of military organizations different empires have employed throughout history. It describes the internal and external functions of these military organizations in protecting and expanding the empire, as well as the problems faced by imperial regimes of financing and controlling military organizations that might otherwise turn against the very same regimes they were created to protect. Lastly, the chapter gives a historical walk-through of the “Revolutions in Military Affairs” (RMAs) that have propelled the advancement in military affairs through history, which has allowed empires to grow in scale and size.

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