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Title Structures on the move : technologies of governance in transcultural encounter / edited by Antje Fluchter, Susan Richter
Published Berlin ; London : Springer, 2012

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Series Transcultural research -- Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a global context, 2191-656X
Transcultural research-- Heidelberg studies on Asia and Europe in a global context.
Contents Structures on the Move: Appropriating Technologies of Governance in a Transcultural Encounter / Antje Flüchter -- Part 1. Statehood: Conceptual Approaches -- New Perspectives on State-Building and the Implementation of Rulership in Early Modern European Monarchies / Stefan Brakensiek -- State and Political History in a Culturalist Perspective / Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger -- Part 2. Case studies: Knowledge -- Pater patriae sinensis. The Discovery of Patriarchal Rule in China and Its Significance for German Theories of State in the Eighteenth Century / Susan Richter -- Survey the People: The Emergence of Population Statistics as Technology of Government in Early Twentieth-Century China / Nicolas Schillinger -- China and Constitutional Monarchy: Four Short Encounters Around 1900 / Guido Mühlemann -- Europe-Mughal India-Muslim Asia: Circulation of Political Ideas and Instruments in Early Modern Times / Corinne Lefèvre -- Weighing the Mughal: German Perception of Governmental Structures and the Staging of Power in the Early Modern Indian Mughal Empire / Antje Flüchter -- Part 3. Case Studies: Interaction -- Technology, Tactics and Military Transfer in the Nineteenth Century: Qing Armies in Tonkin, 1884-1885 / Barend Noordam -- Exporting Military Revolutions and the Changing Clausewitzian Triad between People, Armed Forces and Ruler at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century / Peter I. Trummer -- Approaches to State-Building in Eighteenth Century British Bengal / Sebastian Meurer -- State-Building in a Transcultural Context: The Case of the French in India during the Early Eighteenth Century / Gauri Parasher -- Visualising "State-Building" in European-Ottoman Diplomatic Relations: Visual Ceremonial Descriptions and Conflicting Concepts of Early Modern Governance in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries / Dorothee Linnemann -- The Consequences of Early Modern Diplomacy: Entanglement, Discrimination, Mutual Ignorance--and State Building / Christian Wieland
Summary Annotation This text presents a new conceptual framework for comparative and entangled research on transcultural state formation. It examines concepts of statehood to provide conceptual tools to analyze the transcultural appropriation of governmental technologies
Analysis sociologie
sociology
cultureel onderzoek
cultural research
kunst
arts
geschiedenis
history
Arts (General)
Kunst (algemeen)
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Politics and culture.
Politics and culture -- Case studies
International relations and culture.
International relations and culture -- Case studies
State succession.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
International relations and culture
Politics and culture
State succession
Genre/Form Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
Author Flüchter, Antje
Richter, Susan, 1971-
ISBN 9783642192883
3642192882