Structures on the Move [electronic resource] : Technologies of Governance in Transcultural Encounter /
Flüchter, Antje.editor.
Richter, Susan.editor.
This book enters new territory by moving toward a new conceptual framework for comparative and interdisciplinary research on transcultural state formation. Once more, statehood and governance are highly discussed topics, whereby modern state building is often considered to be a genuinely European characteristic, despite the fact that early modern Europeans knew of, experienced and grappled with highly developed states in Asia. The articles collected in this book discuss how strategies of governance were part of transcultural transfers between the two continents. The first part presents and discusses concepts of statehood in order to provide a set of conceptual tools for analyzing the transcultural appropriation of governmental strategies. The second part is concerned with case studies that examine the transcultural perception of governance, and the third and final part gathers perspectives on political practice in transcultural encounters (e.g. military, administration, and diplomacy).
Structures on the Move; Technologies of Governance in Transcultural Encounter; Editors Note; Contents; Structures on the Move; 1 Introduction; 2 State as a Transcultural Concept; 3 State as an Object of Transcultural Research; 3.1 Conceptual Approaches to State as an Object of a Culturalist History; 3.2 State as a Topic of a Transcultural History of Knowledge; 3.3 State as a Result of Interaction; 4 Conclusion; Bibliography; Part I: Statehood: Conceptual Approaches; New Perspectives on State-Building and the Implementation of Rulership in Early Modern European Monarchies; Bibliography
State and Political History in a Culturalist Perspective1 The Cultural Turn and Political History; 2 Cultural History of Politics-Some Common Misunderstandings; 2.1 First Misunderstanding: Cultural History is not Interested in Power; 2.2 Second Misunderstanding: Cultural History is not Interested in Material Reality; 2.3 Third Misunderstanding: Cultural History Deals with ``Cultures ́ ́ (or ``Civilisations ́ ́) As If They were Closed Boxes.; 3 The Symbolic Construction of Sovereignty; References; Part II: Case Studies: Knowledge
Pater patriae sinensis. The Discovery of Patriarchal Rule in China and Its Significance for German Theories of State in the Eighteenth Century1 Introduction; 2 Legal Prerequisites of Rank for Drawing on China as a Model; 3 Categories for Describing Rule; 4 Similarities in the Functions of Rule; 5 Approaches to Epistemological Theory and Model Theory in the Eighteenth Century; 6 Conclusion; References; Survey the People; 1 Population Statistics in Europe and America Since the Early Modern Era; 2 Population Control in the Late Imperial Period
3 The Adaptation of Statistics and the Emergence of ``Population ́ ́ in Twentieth-Century China4 Statistics and ``Population ́ ́ in Guomindang China; 5 Conclusion; Bibliography; China and Constitutional Monarchy: Four Short Encounters Around 1900; 1 Introduction; 2 The Concept of Constitutional Monarchy; 3 Excursus: Japan and the Elaboration of its 1889 Constitution; 4 China ́s Experiments with Constitutional Monarchy; 4.1 Constitutional-Like Elements in Imperial China; 4.2 Chinese Attempts to Introduce a Constitutional Monarchy; 4.2.1 The 1898 Reform Movement and its Aftermath
4.2.2 The Qing Government ́s Reforms (1901-1912)4.2.3 Yuan Shikai ́s Attempt to Reinstate a Monarchy in 1915/16; 4.2.4 Zhang Xun ́s Brief Restoration of Monarchy in July 1917; 5 Conclusion; Bibliography; Legal Documents; Europe-Mughal India-Muslim Asia: Circulation of Political Ideas and Instruments in Early Modern Times; 1 Introduction; 2 European Political Culture and History in Mughal India; 3 Mughal India and Safavid Iran: Political Transfers in Muslim Asia; Bibliography; Weighing the Mughal; 1 Introduction; 2 The Well-Ordered Indian State: The Central Administrative System
3 The Well-Ordered Indian State: The Customs Administration
The present volume is the proceedings of a conference.
This book enters new territory by moving toward a new conceptual framework for comparative and interdisciplinary research on transcultural state formation. Once more, statehood and governance are highly discussed topics, whereby modern state building is often considered to be a genuinely European characteristic, despite the fact that early modern Europeans knew of, experienced and grappled with highly developed states in Asia. The articles collected in this book discuss how strategies of governance were part of transcultural transfers between the two continents. The first part presents and discusses concepts of statehood in order to provide a set of conceptual tools for analyzing the transcultural appropriation of governmental strategies. The second part is concerned with case studies that examine the transcultural perception of governance, and the third and final part gathers perspectives on political practice in transcultural encounters (e.g. military, administration, and diplomacy).
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