The World Imagined: Collective Beliefs and Political Order in the Sinocentric, Islamic and Southeast Asian International Societies

by Hendrik Spruyt

Book Overview

Taking an inter-disciplinary approach, Spruyt explains the political organization of three non-European international societies from early modernity to the late nineteenth century. The Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires; the Sinocentric tributary system; and the Southeast Asian galactic empires, all which differed in key respects from the modern Westphalian state system. In each of these societies, collective beliefs were critical in structuring...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108811744
• ISBN13: 9781108811743
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"