New PDF release: Universal Empire: A Comparative Approach to Imperial Culture

By Peter Fibiger Bang,Dariusz Kolodziejczyk

ISBN-10: 1107022673

ISBN-13: 9781107022676

ISBN-10: 1107527473

ISBN-13: 9781107527478

The declare via definite rulers to common empire has an extended historical past stretching way back to the Assyrian and Achaemenid Empires. This booklet lines its a number of manifestations in classical antiquity, the Islamic global, Asia and valuable the USA in addition to contemplating 17th- and eighteenth-century eu discussions of overseas order. As such it's an workout in comparative international background combining a multiplicity of techniques, from old heritage, to literary and philosophical reviews, to the heritage of paintings and diplomacy and old sociology. The thought of common, imperial rule is gifted as an elusive and lots more and plenty coveted prize between monarchs in historical past, round which built types of kingship and political tradition. varied aspects of the phenomenon are explored below 3, extensively conceived, headings: symbolism, rite and diplomatic family; common or cosmopolitan literary high-cultures; and, ultimately, the inclination to provide common imperial rule as an expression of cosmic order.

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