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The notion of the "Silk Road" that the German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen invented in the 19th century has lost attraction to scholars in light of large amounts of new evidence and new approaches. The handbook suggests new conceptual and methodological tools for researching ancient economic exchange in a global perspective with a strong focus on recent debates on the nature of pre-modern empires.The interdisciplinary team of Chinese, Indian and Graeco-Roman historians, archaeologists and anthropologists that has written this handbook compares different forms of economic development in agrarian and steppe regions in a period of accelerated empire formation during 300 BCE and 300 CE. It investigates inter-imperial zones and networks of exchange which were crucial for ancient Eurasian connections.Volume I provides a comparative history of the most important empires forming in Northern Africa, Europe and Asia between 300 BCE and 300 CE. It surveys a wide range of evidence that can be brought to bear on economic development in the these empires, and takes stock of the ways academic traditions have shaped different understandings of economic and imperial development as well as Silk-Road exchange in Russia, China, India and Western Graeco-Roman history.

Asian history --- Ancient history: to c 500 CE --- Economic history --- ancient economic exchange --- pre-modern empires --- To 500

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El presente libro versa sobre el papel de la Iglesia católica y sus misiones en los Imperios ibéricos del siglo xix y el primer tercio del siglo xx. En concreto, aborda las relaciones entre el poder civil y el eclesiástico en contextos coloniales en un período de intensa modernización de las estructuras imperiales. Con una perspectiva comparada entre los distintos espacios que componían los diferentes imperios, la obra refleja el papel que desempeñan los misioneros como un cuerpo intermedio entre colonizadores y colonizados, siempre en contacto e interacción con las poblaciones locales, así como la compleja relación entre el poder colonial y las misiones religiosas. El indudable apoyo mutuo partía de intereses que eran en parte divergentes, lo cual provocó conflictos en no pocas ocasiones. Todo ello en el marco de una relación Iglesia-Estado que, en las mismas metrópolis, no careció de importantes roces y dificultades. Ce livre traite des relations entre le pouvoir civil et l'Église catholique dans les colonies des empires ibériques pendant une période de modernisation intense des structures impériales. En effet, les puissances coloniales ont été confrontées à l’épineuse question de la place des clergés – missionnaire et séculier – dans des projets coloniaux que les autorités politiques prétendaient désormais contrôler étroitement en monopolisant la gestion du bien commun. Dans des empires où la religion et le clergé ont occupé une place centrale dès la conquête, comme dans le cas ibérique, ce nouveau rapport de force engendre des tensions et des conflits. L'œuvre reflète le rôle des missionnaires en tant que corps intermédiaire entre colonisateurs et colonisés, toujours en contact et en interaction avec les populations locales, ainsi que la relation complexe entre le pouvoir colonial et les missions religieuses.

History --- Public Administration --- Cuba --- Philippines --- Guinée équatoriale --- Empires ibériques --- Mozambique --- ordres religieux --- société coloniale --- Filipinas --- Guinea Ecuatorial --- Imperios ibéricos --- órdenes religiosas --- sociedad colonial --- History.

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Imperialism. --- Colombia --- United States --- Foreign relations --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism

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Imperialism. --- Power (Philosophy) --- Authority --- Ethics --- Philosophy --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism

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Empires of the Sea brings together studies of maritime empires from the Bronze Age to the Eighteenth Century. The volume aims to establish maritime empires as a category for the (comparative) study of premodern empires, and from a partly ‘non-western’ perspective. The book includes contributions on Mycenaean sea power, Classical Athens, the ancient Thebans, Ptolemaic Egypt, The Genoese Empire, power networks of the Vikings, the medieval Danish Empire, the Baltic empire of Ancien Régime Sweden, the early modern Indian Ocean, the Melaka Empire, the (non-European aspects of the) Portuguese Empire and Dutch East India Company, and the Pirates of Caribbean.

Imperialism. --- Sea-power --- History. --- Sea transport. Seaports --- World history --- Naval history --- History --- Imperialism --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- Sea-power - History --- Ancient history --- Classical history / classical civilisation