Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVOLUME VI
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1Introduction
- Part OneGlobal matrices
- Part TwoMacro-regions
- Part ThreeLarge-scale political formations
- Part FourCrossroads regions
- Part FiveOverview
- 18Political trajectories compared
- Index
- References
18 - Political trajectories compared
from Part Five - Overview
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2015
Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVOLUME VI
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1Introduction
- Part OneGlobal matrices
- Part TwoMacro-regions
- Part ThreeLarge-scale political formations
- Part FourCrossroads regions
- Part FiveOverview
- 18Political trajectories compared
- Index
- References
Summary
In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, several events had disrupted older states and empires all across Eurasia. Political domains were loosely organized entities with fuzzy boundaries. There was a global crisis of political and religious authorities that undermined states all across Eurasia. One of the imperatives for rulers in the latter half of the seventeenth century was a cultural retrenchment to re-establish their legitimacy and the loyalty of their officials and subjects. Philosophical works on government written in the eighteenth century, a period commonly known as the Enlightenment, are quite diverse. New innovations in government, such as the party-state, provided new options for modern state-building, and twists on older ideas, such as the modernizing military-led regime, provided still others. In the industrial era, wars grew astonishingly more destructive, and international competition more intense. Traditional regimes modernized, embracing and adapting Western modes of finance, military, industrial, scientific, educational and diplomatic organization, or perished.
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- The Cambridge World History , pp. 447 - 489Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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