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020			_a9781316617281
028			_aVedi Books Pvt.Ltd _b;Unit-3,Rahul Apartments 24/24 Ansari Road Daryaganj,New Delhi-2 _c;INV/288/17-18 _d;19/07/2018
082			_a325.3209 CRO
100			_aPeter Crooks _a; Timothy Parsons
245			_aEmpires and bureaucracy in world history _b : from late antiquity to the twentieth century _c/Peter Crooks; Timothy Parsons
260			_aCambridge _b: Cambridge University Press _c, 2016.
300			_axxii, 474 pages _b: maps _c; 23 cm
505			_a Introduction. Empires, bureaucracy and the paradox of power / Peter Crooks and Timothy H. Parsons -- Empires and Bureaucracy in World-Historical Perspectie. China as a contrasting case: bureaucracy and empire in Song China / Patricia Ebrey -- Conflict and cooperation between Arab rulers and Persian administrators in the formative period of Islamdom, c.600-950 CE / István T. Kristó-Nagy -- Bureaucracy without alphabetic writing: governing the Inca empire, c.1438-1532 / Chris Given-Wilson -- The Ottoman empire (1299-1923): the bureaucratization of patrimonial authority / Karen Barkey -- From Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages. 'The late Roman empire was before all things a bureaucratic state.' / Michael Whitby -- Bureaucracies, elites and clans: the case of Byzantium, c.600-1100 / John Haldon -- Charlemagne and Carolingian military administration / Bernard S. Bachrach -- Bureaucracy, the English state and the crisis of the Angevin empire, 1199-1205 / John Gillingham -- The parchment imperialists: texts, scribes, and the medieval western Empire, c.1250-c.1440 / Len Scales -- Before Humpty Dumpty: the first English empire and the brittleness of bureaucracy, 1259-1453 / Peter Crooks -- From the Age of European Expansion to the End of Empires. Magistrates to administrators, composite monarchy to fiscal-military empire: empire and bureaucracy in the Spanish monarchy, c.1492-1825 / Christopher Storrs -- Britain's overseas empire before 1780: overwhelmingly successful and bureaucratically challenged / Jack P. Greene -- 'Les enfants du siècle': an empire of young professionals and the creation of bureaucratic, imperial ethos in Napoleonic Europe / Michael Broers -- Bureaucracy, power and violence in colonial India: the role of Indian subalterns / Deana Heath -- From chief to technocrat: labour and colonial authority in post-world ward Africa / Frederick Cooper -- The unintended consequences of bureaucratic 'modernization' in post-World War II British Africa / Timothy H. Parsons -- Afterward. Empires and bureaucracy: means of appropriation and media of communication / Sam Whimster.
520			_aHow did empires rule different peoples across vast expanses of space and time? And how did small numbers of imperial bureaucrats govern large numbers of subordinated peoples? Empires and Bureaucracy in World History seeks answers to these fundamental problems in imperial studies by exploring the power and limits of bureaucracy. The book is pioneering in bringing together historians of antiquity and the Middle Ages
650			_aSocial Sciences
655			_aBureaucracy _bImperialism
700			_aPeter Crooks; Timothy Parsons
942			_cBOOK
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