Tributary Empires in Global History

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Tributary Empires — Towards a Global and Comparative History....Pages 1-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Religion, Liberalism and Empires: British Historians and Their Indian Critics in the Nineteenth Century....Pages 21-47
Orientalism and Classicism: The British-Roman Empire of Lord Bryce and His Italian Critics....Pages 48-73
The New Order and the Fate of the Old — The Historiographical Construction of an Ottoman Ancien Régime in the Nineteenth Century....Pages 74-95
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
Empire as a Topic in Comparative Sociology....Pages 99-107
Early Imperial Formations in Africa and the Segmentation of Power....Pages 108-119
Post-Nomadic Empires: From the Mongols to the Mughals....Pages 120-131
The Process of Empire: Frontiers and Borderlands....Pages 132-150
The Emblematic Province — Sicily from the Roman Empire to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies....Pages 151-168
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
Lord of All the World — The State, Heterogeneous Power and Hegemony in the Roman and Mughal Empires....Pages 171-192
Fiscal Regimes and the ‘First Great Divergence’ between Eastern and Western Eurasia....Pages 193-204
Tributary Empires: Late Rome and the Arab Caliphate....Pages 205-213
Returning the Household to the Patrimonial-Bureaucratic Empire: Gender, Succession, and Ritual in the Mughal, Safavid and Ottoman Empires....Pages 214-226
Comparisons Across Empires: The Critical Social Structures of the Ottomans, Russians and Habsburgs during the Seventeenth Century....Pages 227-261
Back Matter....Pages 263-294