Description: Dividing the Realm in Order to Govern : The Spatial Organization of the Song State ( CE), Hardcover by Mostern, Ruth, ISBN 0674056027, ISBN-13 9780674056022, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US States are inherently and fundamentally geographical. Sovereignty is based on control of territory. This book uses Song China to explain how a pre-industrial regime organized itself spatially in order to exercise authority. On more than a thousand occasions, the Song court founded, abolished, promoted, demoted, and reordered jurisdictions in an attempt to maximize the effectiveness of limited resources in a climate of shifting priorities, to placate competing constituencies, and to address military and economic crises. Spatial transformations in the Song field administration changed the geography of commerce, taxation, revenue accumulation, warfare, foreign relations, and social organization, and even determined the terms of debates about imperial power. The chronology of tenth-century imperial consolidation, eleventh-century political reform, and twelfth-century localism traced in this book is a familiar one. But by detailing the relationship between the court and local administration, this book complicates the received paradigm of Song centralization and decentralization. Song frontier policies formed a coherent imperial approach to administering peripheral regions with inaccessible resources and limited infrastructure. And the well-known events of the Songùwars and reformsùwere often responses to long-term spatial and demographic change.
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Book Title: Dividing the Realm in Order to Govern : The Spatial Organization
Number of Pages: 396 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: 'dividing The Realm in Order to Govern' : the Spatial Organization of the Song State (960-1276 CE)
Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
Publication Year: 2011
Item Height: 1.2 in
Subject: Human Geography, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Asia / China, World / Asian
Item Weight: 24.9 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, History
Author: Ruth Mostern
Item Length: 9 in
Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
