Structures on the move: technologies of governance in transcultural encounter
This book presents a new conceptual framework for comparative and entangled research on transcultural state formation. It examines concepts of statehood to provide conceptual tools to analyze the transcultural appropriation of governmental technologies
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| Format: | Conference Paper |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2012
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| Series: | Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context
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| Volumes / Articles: | Show Volumes / Articles. |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-642-19288-3 |
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| Online Access: | Verlag, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19288-3 Resolving-System, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19288-3 Cover: https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz367687658cov.jpg Rezension: http://www.sehepunkte.de/2017/05/30502.html Verlag, Inhaltsverzeichnis: http://d-nb.info/1009744275/04 Verlag, Inhaltstext: http://deposit.dnb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=3658623&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm 
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| Author Notes: | ed. by Antje Flüchter; Susan Richter |
Table of Contents:
- 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