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Empires and Bureaucracy in World History Howdidempiresruledifferentpeoplesacrossvastexpansesofspaceandtime? Andhowdidsmallnumbersofimperialbureaucratsgovernlargenumbersof subordinated peoples? Empires and Bureaucracy in World History seeks answers to these fundamental problems in imperial studies by exploring the powerandlimitsofbureaucracy.Thebookispioneeringinbringingtogether historians of antiquity and the Middle Ages with scholars of post-medieval Europeanempires,whileagenuinelyworld-historicalperspectiveisprovided by chapters on China, the Incas and the Ottomans. The editors identify a paradox in how bureaucracy operated on the scale of empires and so help explainwhysomeempiresenduredforcenturies,while,inthecontemporary world,empiresfailalmostbeforetheybegin.Byadoptingacross-chronological andworld-historicalapproach,thebookchallengestheabidingassociationof bureaucraticrationalitywith‘modernity’andtheso-called‘RiseoftheWest’. petercrooksisLecturerinMedievalHistoryatTrinityCollegeDublin.He is editor of Government, War and Society in Medieval Ireland (2008) and (with David Green and W. Mark Ormrod) The Plantagenet Empire, 1259–1453(2016).Heisalsoprincipaleditorof‘CIRCLE’(https://chancery .tcd.ie/),areconstructionoftheIrishchanceryrollsdestroyedinthe1922fire atthePublicRecordOffice,Dublin. timothy h. parsons holds a joint appointment as Professor of African History in the History Department and the African and African American Studies Program at Washington University in St Louis. His publications include The Second British Empire: In the Crucible of the Twentieth Century (2014), The Rule of Empires: Those Who Built Them, Those Who EnduredThem,andWhyTheyAlwaysFall(2010),Race,Resistanceandthe Boy Scout Movement in British Colonial Africa (2004), The 1964 Army Mutinies and the Making of Modern East Africa (2003), and The African Rank-and-File:SocialImplicationsofColonialServiceintheKing’sAfrican Rifles,1902–1964(1999). Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Namik Kemal Universitesi, on 14 Apr 2020 at 19:47:47, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316694312 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Namik Kemal Universitesi, on 14 Apr 2020 at 19:47:47, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316694312 Empires and Bureaucracy in World History From Late Antiquity to the Twentieth Century Editedby Peter Crooks TrinityCollegeDublin,TheUniversityofDublin and Timothy H. Parsons WashingtonUniversityinStLouis Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Namik Kemal Universitesi, on 14 Apr 2020 at 19:47:47, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316694312 UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learningandresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107166035 ©PeterCrooksandTimothyH.Parsons2016 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2016 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyClays,StIvesplc AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloguing-in-Publicationdata Crooks,Peter.|Parsons,Timothy. Empiresandbureaucracyinworldhistory:fromLateAntiquity tothetwentiethcentury/editedbyPeterCrooks(TrinityCollegeDublin,the UniversityofDublin)&TimothyH.Parsons(WashingtonUniversityinStLouis). Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,2016. LCCN2016014773|ISBN9781107166035(hardback)| ISBN9781316617281(paperback) LCSH:Imperialism–History.|Bureaucracy–History.|BISAC: HISTORY/World. LCCJC359.E4332016|DDC325/.3209–dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2016014773 ISBN978-1-107-16603-5Hardback ISBN978-1-316-61728-1Paperback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication, anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Namik Kemal Universitesi, on 14 Apr 2020 at 19:47:47, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316694312 Contents ListofFigures pageviii ListofMaps ix ListofTables x ListofContributors xi Preface xiii ListofAbbreviations xvii PartI Introduction 1 1 Empires,BureaucracyandtheParadoxofPower 3 peter crooks and timothy h. parsons PartII EmpiresandBureaucracyinWorld-HistoricalPerspective 29 2 ChinaasaContrastingCase:BureaucracyandEmpire inSongChina 31 patricia ebrey 3 ConflictandCooperationbetweenArabRulersandPersian AdministratorsintheFormativePeriodofIslamdom, c.600–c.950ce 54 istvań t. kristo´-nagy 4 BureaucracywithoutAlphabeticWriting:GoverningtheInca Empire,c.1438–1532 81 chris given-wilson 5 TheOttomanEmpire(1299–1923):TheBureaucratization ofPatrimonialAuthority 102 karen barkey v Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Namik Kemal Universitesi, on 14 Apr 2020 at 19:47:49, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316694312 vi Contents PartIII FromLateAntiquitytotheMiddleAges 127 6 ‘TheLateRomanEmpireWasbeforeAllThings aBureaucraticState.’ 129 michael whitby 7 Bureaucracies,ElitesandClans:TheCaseofByzantium, c.600–1100 147 john haldon 8 CharlemagneandCarolingianMilitaryAdministration 170 bernard s. bachrach 9 Bureaucracy,theEnglishStateandtheCrisisoftheAngevin Empire,1199–1205 197 john gillingham 10 TheParchmentImperialists:Texts,ScribesandtheMedieval WesternEmpire,c.1250–c.1440 221 len scales 11 BeforeHumptyDumpty:TheFirstEnglishEmpireandthe BrittlenessofBureaucracy,1259–1453 250 peter crooks PartIV FromtheAgeofEuropeanExpansiontotheEnd ofEmpires 289 12 MagistratestoAdministrators,CompositeMonarchyto Fiscal-MilitaryEmpire:EmpireandBureaucracyinthe SpanishMonarchy,c.1492–1825 291 christopher storrs 13 Britain’sOverseasEmpirebefore1780:Overwhelmingly SuccessfulandBureaucraticallyChallenged 318 jack p. greene 14 ‘LesEnfantsduSiècle’:AnEmpireofYoungProfessionals andtheCreationofaBureaucratic,ImperialEthosinNapoleonic Europe 344 michael broers 15 Bureaucracy,PowerandViolenceinColonialIndia:TheRole ofIndianSubalterns 364 deana heath Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Namik Kemal Universitesi, on 14 Apr 2020 at 19:47:49, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316694312 Contents vii 16 FromChieftoTechnocrat:LabourandColonialAuthority inPost–WorldWariiAfrica 391 frederick cooper 17 TheUnintendedConsequencesofBureaucratic‘Modernization’ inPost–WorldWariiBritishAfrica 412 timothy h. parsons PartV Afterword 435 18 EmpiresandBureaucracy:MeansofAppropriation andMediaofCommunication 437 sam whimster Index 457 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Namik Kemal Universitesi, on 14 Apr 2020 at 19:47:49, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316694312 Figures 4.1 ThequipuillustratedinGuamanPoma’sNuevacorónica ybuengobierno(1615).Reproducedbypermissionofthe RoyalLibrary,Copenhagen,GKS22324º,p.337,drawing 132,‘StorehousesoftheInka’. page89 7.1 SchematicofByzantineadministrativearrangements, c.700–1050. 158 9.1 RulersoftheAngevinempireandtheirpredecessors 200 11.1 RulersofEnglandanditsdominions,1199–1460 251 11.2–3 English‘deputed’greatsealforuseinIreland(1395), obverseandreverse,fromthereignofRichardII. ReproducedbypermissionofDublinCityArchives. PhotoAlastairSmeaton. 267 11.4–5 IllustrationsofWelsharcherandIrishaxemanfromLiber A(E36/274,fos.32and435,TNA),late13thcent. ReproducedbypermissionofTheNationalArchives. 272 viii Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Namik Kemal Universitesi, on 14 Apr 2020 at 19:47:48, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316694312 Maps 2.1 ChinaduringtheNorthernSong(960–1126) page38 2.2 ChinaduringtheSouthernSong(1127–1279) 39 3.1 TheworldontheeveoftheIslamicconquests,c.600 57 3.2 TheUmayyadcaliphate,c.750/132 58 3.3 TheMuslimworld,c.900/287 59 4.1 ExpansionoftheIncaempire,c.1438–1525 83 5.1 TheexpansionoftheOttomanempire,c.1300–1566 104 7.1 TheEastRomanempirein565 148 7.2 TheByzantineempireatthebeginningofthereign ofLeoIII(717) 154 7.3 TheByzantineempire,c.750 155 7.4 TheByzantineempire,c.1030 156 8.1 TheCarolingianempire,c.800 179 9.1 TheAngevinempireinthelatetwelfthcentury 201 10.1 TheReichinthetimeofCharlesIV,c.1378 224 11.1 EnglandandthePlantagenetdominionsinthelater MiddleAges 260 12.1 SpanishAmericas,c.1780 292 12.2 IndependentSouthAmerica 316 ix Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. 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