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Autore: | Bodley John H (John Harry), <1942-> |
Titolo: | The power of scale : a global history approach / / John H. Bodley |
Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (318 p.) |
Disciplina: | 909 |
Soggetto topico: | World history |
History, Modern | |
Civilization, Modern | |
Imperialism - History | |
Capitalism - History | |
Geopolitics - History | |
Note generali: | First published 2003 by M.E. Sharpe. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | ""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"" |
""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"" | |
""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"" | |
""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"" | |
""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"" | |
""7. Counter-Imperia: Imagining Alternative Worlds"" | |
Titolo autorizzato: | The power of scale |
ISBN: | 1-315-69923-0 |
1-317-45523-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910797133603321 |
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