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The Growth of Non-Western Cities - Primary and Secondary Urban Networking, c. 900-1900 (Paperback)
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The Growth of Non-Western Cities - Primary and Secondary Urban Networking, c. 900-1900 (Paperback)
Series: Comparative Urban Studies
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These interdisciplinary studies address pre-1900 non-Western urban
growth in the African Sudan, Mexico, the Ottoman Middle East, and
South, Southeast, and East Asia. Therein, primary and secondary
cities served as functional societal agents that were viable and
potentially powerful alternatives to the diversity of kinship-based
local or regional networks, the societal delegated spaces in which
local and external agencies met and interacted in a wide variety of
political, economic, spiritual, and military forms. They were
variously transportation centers, sites of a central temples, court
and secular administration centers, fortified military compounds,
intellectual (literary) activity cores, and marketplace and/or
craft production sites. One element of these urban centers'
existence might have been more important than others, as a
political capital, a cultural capital, or an economic capital. In
the post-1500 era of increasing globalization, especially with the
introduction of new technologies of transport, communication, and
warfare, non-Western cities even more became the hubs of knowledge,
societal, and cultural formation and exchange because of the
location of both markets and political centers in urban areas. New
forms of professionalism, militarization, and secular
bureaucratization were foundational to centralizing state
hierarchies that could exert more control over their networked
segments. This book's authors consciously attempt to balance the
histories of functional urban agency between the local and the
exogenous, giving weight to local activities, events, beliefs,
institutions, communities, individuals, and historical narratives.
In several studies, both external and internal societal prejudices
and the inability of key decision makers to understand indigenous
reality led to negative consequences both in the local environment
and in the global arena.
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