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The Limits of Universal Rule - Eurasian Empires Compared (Hardcover)
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The Limits of Universal Rule - Eurasian Empires Compared (Hardcover)
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All major continental empires proclaimed their desire to rule 'the
entire world', investing considerable human and material resources
in expanding their territory. Each, however, eventually had to stop
expansion and come to terms with a shift to defensive strategy.
This volume explores the factors that facilitated Eurasian empires'
expansion and contraction: from ideology to ecology, economic and
military considerations to changing composition of the imperial
elites. Built around a common set of questions, a team of leading
specialists systematically compare a broad set of Eurasian empires
- from Achaemenid Iran, the Romans, Qin and Han China, via the
Caliphate, the Byzantines and the Mongols to the Ottomans,
Safavids, Mughals, Russians, and Ming and Qing China. The result is
a state-of-the art analysis of the major imperial enterprises in
Eurasian history from antiquity to the early modern that discerns
both commonalities and differences in the empires' spatial
trajectories.
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