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Power of Scale : a Global History Approach.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Armonk :
Taylor and Francis,
2002.
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| Colección: | Sources and studies in world history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 KingdomsThe 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 PowerCrossing 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, 1600-1900British 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 PhiladelphiaJ. 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; Tribals Against the State; Plato's Republic and Medieval Utopias; The English Revolution: Regicides, Levelers, and Luddites; Thomas Paine and the Rights of Man; Anarchists, Owenites, and Fourerists.