The power of scale : a global history approach / / John H. Bodley

• Autore: Bodley John H (John Harry), <1942->
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Sources and studies in world history.