Format:
1 online resource (400 pages)
ISBN:
9781139554756
Content:
This book explores the aspiration to universal, imperial rule across Eurasian history from antiquity to the eighteenth century.
Content:
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 ecumene -- ALEXANDER'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 Latin -- 1 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 -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 9 Ideologies of state building in Vijayanagara and post-Vijayanagara south India: some reflections -- I.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107022676
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107022676
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=989087
