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"The claim by certain rulers to universal empire has a long history stretching as far back as the Assyrian and Achaemenid empires. This book traces its various manifestations in Near Eastern and classical antiquity, the Islamic world, Asia and Central America as well as considering seventeenth-...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, England ; New York : |
| Publication Dates: |
2015. ©2012 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First paperback edition. |
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| Summary: |
"The claim by certain rulers to universal empire has a long history stretching as far back as the Assyrian and Achaemenid empires. This book traces its various manifestations in Near Eastern and classical antiquity, the Islamic world, Asia and Central America as well as considering seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European discussions of international order. As such it is an exercise in comparative world history combining a multiplicity of approaches, from ancient history, to literary and philosophical studies, to the history of art and international relations, and historical sociology. T |
| Carrier Form: | xx, 378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-363) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781107527478 1107527473 9781107022676 1107022673 |
| Index Number: | JV61 |
| CLC: | D033.3-09 |
| Call Number: | D033.3-09/U588 |
| Contents: | 1. 'Elephant of India': universal empire through time and across cultures / Peter Fibiger Bang with Dariusz Kołodziejczyk -- Part I. Eurasia : Antiquity till Early Modernity: 2. Propaganda and practice in Assyrian and Persian imperial culture / Gojko Barjamovic -- 3. Between Ásoka and Antiochos: an essay in world history on universal kingship and cosmopolitan culture in the Hellenistic ecumene / Peter Fibiger Bang -- 4. The making of Oriental Rome: shaping the Trojan legend / Rolf Michael Schneider -- 5. Pseudo-Aristotelian politics and theology in universal Islam / Garth Fowden -- 6. The |