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Patrimonial capitalism and empire

There is today a new interest in empires past and present. Scholars seek fresh ways of understanding a form of power far older than the modern nation state. Others see empire, not long ago assumed to be a mode of governance on the way out, as having a surprising new lease on life, and want to better...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Charrad, M. (Mounira), Adams, Julia
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2015.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Political power and social theory, v. 28.
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Online Access:Full-text access
Table of Contents:
  • Patrimonialism in America : The public domain in the making of modernity from colonial times to the late nineteenth century / John Hall
  • Explaining the great continuity : ethnic institutions, colonialism, and social development in Spanish America / James Mahoney
  • Limits of empire : the French colonial state and local patrimonialism in North Africa / Mounira Charrad, Daniel Jaster
  • Patrimonialism, imperialism, and colonialism at the Cape of Good Hope under Dutch East India Company rule, c.1652-1795 / Kerry Ward
  • Grandpa State instead of Bourgeois State : patrimonial politics in chinas Age of Commerce, 1644-1839 / Ho-Fung Hung
  • Antipodean patrimonialism? Squattocracy, democracy and land rights in Australia / Pavla Miller
  • Colonialism, neopatrimonialism and hybrid state formation / Daniel Goh
  • Patrimonialism, bureaucratization, and fiscal systems of British Bengal, 1765-1819 / Malik Martin
  • Innovations in trust : patrimonial and bureaucratic authority in the Asante Empire of West Africa / Nicolette Manglos-Weber
  • Locating the family-state : the forgotten legacy of Javanese Theories of the public domain (17th -20th c.) / Romain Bertrand
  • Sovereignty and sociology : from state theory to theories of empire / Julia Adams, George Steinmetz.