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DOI | 10.1017/S174002280900312X |
A theory for formation of large empires | |
Turchin, Peter | |
通讯作者 | Turchin, Peter |
来源期刊 | JOURNAL OF GLOBAL HISTORY
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ISSN | 1740-0228 |
EISSN | 1740-0236 |
出版年 | 2009 |
卷号 | 4期号:2页码:191-217 |
英文摘要 | Between 3000 BCE and 1800 CE there were more than sixty ’mega-empires’ that, at the peak, controlled an area of at least one million square kilometres. What were the forces that kept together such huge pre-industrial states? I propose a model for one route to mega-empire, motivated by imperial dynamics in eastern Asia, the world region with the highest concentration of mega-empires. This ’mirror-empires’ model proposes that antagonistic interactions between nomadic pastoralists and settled agriculturalists result in an autocatalytic process, which pressures both nomadic and farming polities to scale up polity size, and thus military power. The model suggests that location near a steppe frontier should correlate with the frequency of imperiogenesis. A worldwide survey supports this prediction: over 90% of mega-empires arose within or next to the Old World’s arid belt, running from the Sahara desert to the Gobi desert. Specific case studies are also plausibly explained by this model. There are, however, other possible mechanisms for generating empires, of which a few are discussed at the end of the article. |
类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA |
收录类别 | SSCI ; AHCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000278090800001 |
WOS关键词 | STATE ; EVOLUTION ; SETTLEMENT ; PATTERNS ; ORIGIN |
WOS类目 | History |
WOS研究方向 | History |
资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/161602 |
作者单位 | (1)Univ Connecticut, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Storrs, CT 06235 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Turchin, Peter. A theory for formation of large empires[J],2009,4(2):191-217. |
APA | Turchin, Peter.(2009).A theory for formation of large empires.JOURNAL OF GLOBAL HISTORY,4(2),191-217. |
MLA | Turchin, Peter."A theory for formation of large empires".JOURNAL OF GLOBAL HISTORY 4.2(2009):191-217. |
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