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200 14$aThe power of scale $ea global history approach /$fJohn H. Bodley
210  1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2015.
215   $a1 online resource (318 p.)
225 1 $aSources and Studies in World History
300   $aFirst published 2003 by M.E. Sharpe.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $a""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Tables and Figures""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Introduction: Imperia and the Power of Scale""; ""Imperia, Social Power, and Scale""; ""Three Cultural Worlds: Tribal, Imperial, and Commercial""; ""Great Cultural Transformations""; ""Quality of Life in the Tribal World""; ""The Irreducible Minimum in the Tribal World""; ""Political Imperia and Conditional Rights in the Imperial World""; ""The Commercial World and Capitalism""; ""2. Imperia in Three Worlds""
327   $a""Domestic Imperia in the Amazon Rain Forest: The Ashaninka""""Circles of Kings: Political Imperia in Southeast Asian Kingdoms""; ""The Thai Kingdom, 1782-1932""; ""Modern Thai and Balinese Imperia""; ""Commercial Imperia: The United States, 1998""; ""3. Why Scale Matters""; ""Power Laws, Energy, and the Disproportions of Scale""; ""The Illusion of Evolutionary Progress""; ""Culture, Biology, and the Problem of Size""; ""Human Community, Society, and Scale""; ""Scale Limits in the Tribal World: Australian Bands""; ""Scale Limits to Power in the Tribal World: The Ashaninka""
327   $a""The Power of Scale in the Urbanization Process""""Bureaucracy and Domination""; ""Scale, Imperia, and Growth Trajectories""; ""4. The Political Elite Take Power""; ""Crossing the Great Divide from Tribal to Imperial Worlds""; ""Village Headman to Divine King in Southeast Asia""; ""Beyond 500: Scalar Stress and Urban Growth""; ""Elite Payoff: Mates, Servants, and Palaces""; ""Strategies of Domination in the Ancient Imperial World""; ""The Romans: Conquerors and Slaves in a Legionary Economy""; ""5. The Rise of European Commercial Elites""
327   $a""Urban Growth and the Origins of Capitalism, 1100-1600""""Medieval City-States and the Medici Imperium""; ""Crisis as Opportunity: England, 1500-1688""; ""Landed and Monied Interests in the London Financial Revolution, 1600-1900""; ""British Colonialism: Merchant Capitalists Transform the World""; ""The Business of Government in the Fiscal-Military State""; ""Capitalist Manufacturers: Canals, Pots, Guns, and Lobbies""; ""The Power of Scale in Britain, A.D. 1066-2000""; ""A Tale of Three Families: Grosvenors, Rothschilds, and Bonapartes""
327   $a""Commercial Elites in Control: Summary and Assessment""""6. The Power Elite in Action: America's Commercial Revolution, 1787-1945""; ""Founding Fathers and the Constitution""; ""The Rise of Big Business""; ""Urban Elites and American Inequality: Boston, New York, and Philadelphia""; ""J.J. Astor, Real Estate, and the Fur Empire""; ""The Rail Empires, 1840-1870""; ""American Financial Imperia""; ""Rockefeller Imperium and the Fossil Fuel Revolution""; ""Factory Farms and the American Food System""; ""The Triumph of Cars over Rails""; ""The Millionaire Imperia: Super-Elite Lifestyles""
327   $a""7. Counter-Imperia: Imagining Alternative Worlds""
410  0$aSources and studies in world history.
606   $aWorld history
606   $aHistory, Modern
606   $aCivilization, Modern
606   $aImperialism$xHistory
606   $aCapitalism$xHistory
606   $aGeopolitics$xHistory
615  0$aWorld history.
615  0$aHistory, Modern.
615  0$aCivilization, Modern.
615  0$aImperialism$xHistory.
615  0$aCapitalism$xHistory.
615  0$aGeopolitics$xHistory.
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