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Empires and Bureaucracy in World History: From Late Antiquity to the Twentieth Century
Empires and Bureaucracy in World History: From Late Antiquity to the Twentieth Century
This book provides a global history of the power and limits of imperial rule from antiquity to the present. Written by a team of leading scholars, it sheds new light on the rise and fall of empires, and questions the association of bureaucratic rationality with 'modernity' and the 'Rise of the West'.
494 pages, 8 b/w illus. 17 maps 4 tables
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | August 11, 2016 |
| ISBN13 | 9781107166035 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 498 |
| Dimensions | 270 × 162 × 26 mm · 844 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Crooks, Peter (Trinity College, Dublin) |
| Editor | Parsons, Timothy H. (Washington University, St Louis) |