Tributary Empires in Global History

1. Tributary Empires — Towards a Global and Comparative History

1. Tributary Empires — Towards a Global and Comparative History
Peter Fibiger Bang, C. A. Bayly

Part I. Historiographies of Empire

2. Religion, Liberalism and Empires: British Historians and Their Indian Critics in the Nineteenth Century
C. A. Bayly

3. Orientalism and Classicism: The British-Roman Empire of Lord Bryce and His Italian Critics
Fabrizio De Donno

4. The New Order and the Fate of the Old — The Historiographical Construction of an Ottoman Ancien Régime in the Nineteenth Century
Baki Tezcan

Part II. Theoretical Perspectives on Empire

5. Empire as a Topic in Comparative Sociology
W. G. Runciman

6. Early Imperial Formations in Africa and the Segmentation of Power
Michał Tymowski

7. Post-Nomadic Empires: From the Mongols to the Mughals
André Wink

8. The Process of Empire: Frontiers and Borderlands
David Ludden

9. The Emblematic Province — Sicily from the Roman Empire to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Giovanni Salmeri

Part III. Comparative Histories

10. Lord of All the World — The State, Heterogeneous Power and Hegemony in the Roman and Mughal Empires
Peter Fibiger Bang

11. Fiscal Regimes and the ‘First Great Divergence’ between Eastern and Western Eurasia
Walter Scheidel

12. Tributary Empires: Late Rome and the Arab Caliphate
Chris Wickham

13. Returning the Household to the Patrimonial-Bureaucratic Empire: Gender, Succession, and Ritual in the Mughal, Safavid and Ottoman Empires
Stephen P. Blake

14. Comparisons Across Empires: The Critical Social Structures of the Ottomans, Russians and Habsburgs during the Seventeenth Century
Karen Barkey, Rudi Batzell

Keywords: History, Imperialism and Colonialism, Social History, Modern History, Cultural History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Anthropology