The Mughal empire was one of the largest centralized states in the premodern world and this volume traces the history of this magnificent empire from its creation in 1526 to its breakup in 1720.  Richards stresses the dynamic quality of Mughal territorial expansion, their institutional innovations in land revenue, coinage and military organization, ideological change and the relationship between the emperors and Islam.  He also analyzes institutions particular to the Mughal empire, such as the jagir system, and explores Mughal India's links with the early modern world.

The Mughal Empire (The New Cambridge History of India)

History

Richards, John F.

Asia

Cambridge University Press

It was the age of exploration, the age of empire and conquest, and human beings were extending their reach—and their numbers—as never before. In the process, they were intervening in the world's natural environment in equally unprecedented and dramatic ways. A sweeping work of environmental history, The Unending Frontier offers a truly global perspective on the profound impact of humanity on the natural world in the early modern period.John F. Richards identifies four broadly shared historical processes that speeded environmental change from roughly 1500 to 1800 c.e.: intensified human land use along settlement frontiers; biological invasions; commercial hunting of wildlife; and problems of energy scarcity. The Unending Frontier considers each of these trends in a series of case studies, sometimes of a particular place, such as Tokugawa Japan and early modern England and China, sometimes of a particular activity, such as the fur trade in North America and Russia, cod fishing in the North Atlantic, and whaling in the Arctic. Throughout, Richards shows how humans—whether clearing forests or draining wetlands, transporting bacteria, insects, and livestock; hunting species to extinction, or reshaping landscapes—altered the material well-being of the natural world along with their own.

The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World

University of California Press

Presented here is the final and most coherent section of a sweeping classic work in environmental history, The Unending Frontier. The World Hunt focuses on the commercial hunting of wildlife and its profound global impact on the environment and the early modern world economy. Tracing the massive expansion of the European quest for animal products, The World Hunt explores the fur trade in North America and Russia, cod fishing in the North Atlantic, and whaling and sealing on the world’s oceans and coastlands.

World Hunt: An Environmental History of the Commodification of Animals (California World History Library)

Americas

The Mughal empire was one of the largest centralized states in the premodern world and this volume traces the history of this magnificent empire from its creation in 1526 to its breakup in 1720. Richards stresses the dynamic quality of Mughal territorial expansion, their institutional innovations in land revenue, coinage and military organization, ideological change and the relationship between the emperors and Islam. He also analyzes institutions particular to the Mughal empire, such as the jagir system, and explores Mughal India's links with the early modern world.

The Mughal Empire: The New Cambridge History of India

World Deforestation in the Twentieth Century (Duke Press Policy Studies)

Business & Money

Duke Univ Pr

From the mid-16th to the early 18th centuries the Mughal empire was the dominant power in the Indian subcontinent.  Contrary to what is sometimes suggested, John Richards argues that this centralised state was dynamic and skillfully run.  The studies here consider its links with the wider early modern world, and focus on three related aspects of its history.  The first concerns the nature of imperial authority, in terms both of the dynastic ideology created by Akbar and his successors, and the extent to which this authority could be enforced in the countryside.  The second aspect is that of fiscal and monetary policy and administration: how did the Mughals collect, track and expend their vast revenues, and what effects did this have?  Finally, the author asks why the system could not cope with the changes it had helped engender, and what were the weaknesses and pressures that led to the breakup of the empire in the first decades of the 18th century.  De la moitié du 16e siècle au début du 18e, l’empire moghol était le pouvoir dominant du sous-continent indien.  Contrairement Ã  ce qui peut parfois Ãªtre suggéré, John Richards soutient que cet état centralisé était dynamique et adroitement mené.  Les études examinent ses liens avec le reste du monde moderne et se concentrent sur trois aspects de son histoire.  Le premier concerne la nature de l’autorité impériale, en termes d’idéologie dynastique, telle qu’elle avait été créée par Akbar et ses successeurs et du point jusqu’auquel cette autorité pouvait Ãªtre imposée dans les milieux ruraux.  Le second aspect est celui de l’administration et de la politique fiscale et monétaire: comment les Moghols faisaient-ils pour collecter, retrouver et dépenser leurs vastes revenus et quel était l’effet d’une telle politique?  Enfin, l’auteur cherche Ã  savoir pourquoi ce système n’arrivait pas Ã  faire face aux changements qu’il avait contribué Ã  engendrer et quelles avaient été

Power, Administration and Finance in Mughal India (Variorum Collected Studies)

Routledge

This work dates from about AD 1725; it was composed a few years  after the damage and deaths caused by the Afghan conquest had  effectively destroyed the system by which Persia had been  administered since the 16th century. Persian text with  translation.

Tadhkirat al-Muluk: A Manual of Safavid Administration (Gibb Memorial Trust)

Literature & Fiction

Minorsky, V.

History & Criticism

Edinburgh University Press

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The Mughal Empire (The New Cambridge History of India)

The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World

World Hunt: An Environmental History of the Commodification of Animals (California World History Library)

The Mughal Empire: The New Cambridge History of India

The Mughal Empire (The New Cambridge History of India)

World Deforestation in the Twentieth Century (Duke Press Policy Studies)

Power, Administration and Finance in Mughal India (Variorum Collected Studies)

Tadhkirat al-Muluk: A Manual of Safavid Administration (Gibb Memorial Trust)