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Title:

The great empires of Asia / edited by Jim Masselos.

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

240 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Subject:

Asia--History.
Imperialism--History.

Other Authors:

Masselos, Jim.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Memory of empire. Jim Masselos: Elements of empire ; Emperors and empires ; Maintaining empire ; Advancing empire -- Central Asia : the Mongols 1206-1405 / Timothy May: The rise of Chinggis Khan ; The empire after Chinggis Khan ; The army of the Empire ; Civil government ; The rule of law ; Decline and dissolution ; The greatness of the Mongol Empire -- China : the Ming 1368-1644 / J.A.G. Roberts: The establishment of the Ming Dynasty ; The reign of Hongwu, 1368-98 ; The reign of Yongle, 1403-24 ; Military defeat and the Great Wall ; Ming absolutism ; The economy under the Ming ; Ming society ; Philosophy, art and literature in the Ming period ; Contacts with the West ; The decline and fall of the Ming Dynasty -- South-East Asia : the Khmer 802-1566 / Helen Ibbitson Jessup: Womb of empire : the early centuries ; Religion and Indian cultural influences ; Chakravartin, the universal monarch ; Hariharalaya : the consolidation of power ; The roots of Angkor ; The grandeur of Koh Ker ; Return to the heartland ; Imperial longings : the ascent of Suryavarman ; Power in the North ; Suryavarman II and the age of Angkor Wat ; Buddhism as state religion ; The waning years? -- Asia Minor and beyond : the Ottomans 1281-1922 / Gábor Ágoston: The significance of the Ottomans in world history ; From frontier principality to empire ; Empire and its challenges ; Military might ; Ruling the empire ; Core zones, frontier provinces and vassals ; The long 19th century and the Ottomans' staying power ; The Ottoman achievement -- Persia : the Safavids 1501-1722 / Sussan Babie: The boy becomes king ; Architecture and art under Shah Ismail I ; The fall of Ismail and reign of Shah Tahmasb ; Architecture and art under Shah Tahmasb ; Civil war and the ascension of Shah Abbas I ; Isfahan, the Safavid capital 1598-1722 ; Cosmopolitanism and Kingship ; The later Safavids ; The significance of the Safavids -- India : the Mughals 1526-1858 / Catherine Asher: The beginning of Mughal rule ; Akbar (r.1556-1605) : conquest and consolidation ; Akbar's concept of state ; Akbar's patronage of the arts ; Jahangir (r. 1605-27) and Shah Jahan (r. 1628-58) ; The arts under Jahangir and Shah Jahan ; Aurangzeb (r. 1658-1707) and the later Mughals (1707-1858) -- Japan : the Meiji Restoration 1868-1945 / Elise Kurashige Tipton: A rich country, strong army ; Building the nation through war ; The Russo-Japanese War : the start of Japanese Imperialism ; Japan's colonial project in Taiwan and Korea ; The informal empire in China and the road to war ; Total war and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere ; Defeat in war and the end of empire -- The end of empire / Jim Masselos: The Occidental's Orient ; The end of empires ; New empires and rulers ; Memory of empire.

ISBN:

0520268598 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520268593 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)606760514

LCCN:

2010924329

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

ETPD745 -- Emmetsburg Public Library (Emmetsburg)

KIPB845 -- Hospers Public Library (Hospers)