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200 14$aThe power of scale $ea global history approach /$fJohn H. Bodley
205   $a1st ed.
210  1$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""
330   $aDrawing on history, economics, anthropology and sociology, the author argues that individuals, not social classes, have been the agents of social change. He looks at how increases in scale necessarily lead to an increasingly small elite gaining disproportionate power.
410  0$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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