How 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 with scholars of post-medieval
European empires, while a genuinely world-historical perspective is
provided by chapters on China, the Incas and the Ottomans. The
editors identify a paradox in how bureaucracy operated on the scale
of empires and so help explain why some empires endured for
centuries while, in the contemporary world, empires fail almost
before they begin. By adopting a cross-chronological and
world-historical approach, the book challenges the abiding
association of bureaucratic rationality with 'modernity' and the
so-called 'Rise of the West'.
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