The Passing of Patrimonialism

The Passing of Patrimonialism
Author: Margrit Pernau
Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN:

This Book Takes A Closer Look At The Changes Which Took Place In The Twentieth Century, In The State Of Hyderabad During The Time Of Its Last Ruler, Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan. The Book Will Be Of Interest Not Only To Scholars Of Islam, Modern Indian History And Sociology But Also To A More General Public Looking For Information On The Princely States.

Hyderabad, British India, and the World

Hyderabad, British India, and the World
Author: Eric Lewis Beverley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2015-06-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1316300293

This examination of the formally autonomous state of Hyderabad in a global comparative framework challenges the idea of the dominant British Raj as the sole sovereign power in the late colonial period. Beverley argues that Hyderabad's position as a subordinate yet sovereign 'minor state' was not just a legal formality, but that in exercising the right to internal self-government and acting as a conduit for the regeneration of transnational Muslim intellectual and political networks, Hyderabad was indicative of the fragmentation of sovereignty between multiple political entities amidst empires. By exploring connections with the Muslim world beyond South Asia, law and policy administration along frontiers with the colonial state, and urban planning in expanding Hyderabad City, Beverley presents Hyderabad as a locus for experimentation in global and regional forms of political modernity. This book recasts the political geography of late imperialism and historicises Muslim political modernity in South Asia and beyond.

The Oxford Handbook of Max Weber

The Oxford Handbook of Max Weber
Author: Dr. Edith Hanke
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 674
Release: 2019-12-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0190679557

Active at the time when the social sciences were founded, Max Weber's social theory contributed significantly to a wide range of fields and disciplines. Considering his prominence, it makes sense to take stock of the Weberian heritage and to explore the ways in which Weber's work and ideas have contributed to our understanding of the modern world. Using his work as a point of departure, The Oxford Handbook of Max Weber investigates the Weberian legacy today, identifying the enduring problems and themes associated with his thought that have contemporary significance: the nature of modern capitalism, neo-liberal global economic policy, nationalism, religion and secularization, threats to legality, the culture of modernity, bureaucratic rule and leadership, politics and ethics, the value of science, power and inequality. These problems are global in scope, and the Weberian approach has been used to address them in very different societies. Thus, the Handbook also features chapters on Europe, Turkey, Islam, Judaism, China, India, and international politics. The Handbook emphasizes the use and application of Weber's ideas. It offers a journey through the intellectual terrain that scholars continue to explore using the tools and perspectives of Weberian analysis. The essays explore how Weber's concepts, hypotheses, and perspectives have been applied in practice, and how they can be applied in the future in social inquiry, not only in Europe and North America, but globally. The volume is divided into six parts exploring, in turn: Capitalism in a Globalized World, Society and Social Structure, Politics and the State, Religion, Culture, and Science and Knowledge.

PATRIMONIAL POWER in the MODERN WORLD

PATRIMONIAL POWER in the MODERN WORLD
Author: Julia Adams
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2011-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1452205671

During the 2011 uprisings in the Arab world, protesters demanded the ouster of authoritarian forms of rule and an end to the influence of ruling families on politics, society, and the economy. These upheavals revealed that patrimonial power in its diverse forms is still a dynamic force in global politics, able to shape world events. This volume brings the study of patrimonialism back to center stage and presents the concept as a useful tool to analyze how nations, global developments, and international relations are influenced and transformed. Leading scholars show that patrimonial practices, present throughout history, are important features of global capitalist modernity. The authors analyze patrimonial politics in regions throughout the world, including in the United States, Tunisia, Chile, France, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, Poland, and Russia. This volume will appeal to students of politics and policy and to a multidisciplinary scholarly audience in political sociology, historical social science, history, and social theory.

Provincial Democracy

Provincial Democracy
Author: Rama Sundari Mantena
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2023-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1009339540

Argues for a nuanced understanding of regionalism in India shaped by debates over representation, rights, political reforms and federalism.

Rethinking Place in South Asian and Islamic Art, 1500-Present

Rethinking Place in South Asian and Islamic Art, 1500-Present
Author: Deborah S. Hutton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1315456036

Place plays a fundamental role in the structuring of the discipline of Art History. And yet, place also limits the questions art historians can ask and impairs analysis of objects and locations in the interstices of established, ossified categories. The chapters in this interdisciplinary volume investigate place in all of its dynamism and complexity: several call into question traditional constructions regarding place in Art History, while others explore the fundamental role that place plays in lived experience. The particular nexus for this collection lies at the intersection and overlap of two major subfields in the history of art: South Asia and the Islamic world, both of which are seemingly geographically determined, yet at the same time uncategorizable as place with their ever-shifting and contested borders. The eleven chapters brought together here move from the early modern through to the contemporary, and span particular monuments and locations ranging from Asia and Europe to Africa and the Americas. The chapters take on the question of place as it operates in more obvious settings, such as architectural monuments and exhibitionary contexts, while also probing the way place operates when objects move or when the very place they exist in transforms dramatically. This volume engages place through the movement of objects, the evocation of senses, desires, and memories and the on-going project of articulating the parameters of place and location.

Max Weber's Comparative-Historical Sociology Today

Max Weber's Comparative-Historical Sociology Today
Author: Stephen Kalberg
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2017-03-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351919091

Bringing together the author's major scholarly work on Weber over the last thirty years, Max Weber's Comparative-Historical Sociology Today addresses major themes in Weber's thought, whilst also examining the mode of analysis practised in his comparative-historical writings. By exploring Weber's concepts and procedures, the individual chapters seek to convey the rigor of his research strategies, demonstrating their uniqueness. In this light, this study proceeds to identify as incomplete and then reconstruct the analyses undertaken by Weber of the rise of Confucianism in China, the caste system in India, and monotheism in ancient Israel. The analysis then advances to the modern era, utilising Weber's research procedures to explain the origins of four independent phenomena: the singularity of the American political culture, the cultural foundations of modern citizenship, cultural pessimism (Kulturpessimismus) in nineteenth century Germany, and the 'location' of work in contemporary German society. A dialogue with a variety of recent major schools is pursued throughout this volume. Offering a rich examination of the major themes in Weber's sociology, alongside a reconstruction of his mode of analysis and application of his approach, this book will appeal to scholars around the world with interests in social theory, German and American societies, cultural sociology, political sociology, the sociology of knowledge, comparative-historical sociology, and the sociology of civilizations.

The House of the Father As Fact and Symbol

The House of the Father As Fact and Symbol
Author: J. David Schloen
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2018-07-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004369848

The first two volumes on patrimonialism in Ugarit and the ancient Near East, this book opens with a lengthy introduction on the interpretation of social action and households in the ancient world. Following this foundation, Schloen embarks on a societal and domestic study of the Late Bronze Age kingdom of Ugarit in its wider Near Eastern context.

Cooperation and Empire

Cooperation and Empire
Author: Tanja Bührer
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2017-08-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 178533610X

While the study of “indigenous intermediaries” is today the focus of some of the most interesting research in the historiography of colonialism, its roots extend back to at least the 1970s. The contributions to this volume revisit Ronald E. Robinson’s theory of collaboration in a range of historical contexts by melding it with theoretical perspectives derived from postcolonial studies and transnational history. In case studies ranging globally over the course of four centuries, these essays offer nuanced explorations of the varied, complex interactions between imperial and local actors, with particular attention to those shifting and ambivalent roles that transcend simple binaries of colonizer and colonized.