... that infused relations between peoples of different faiths and cultures in an age of extraordinary religious divisiveness and imperial ambitions. As the book demonstrates, however, tales of Christian captives among Muslims, Amerindians, and hostile European nations were not only exploited in order to emphasize...

..., and the importance of state-owned companies for managing strategic trade roots and imperial ambitions. The chapter explains how the key trends engender all the forms of modern innovation bureaucracies. It points out how innovation bureaucracies resemble the Weber thesis formalised in the 1980s by scholars trying...

...How does religion stimulate and feed imperial ambitions and violence? Recently this question has acquired new urgency, and this book approaches the problem via a classic but little-studied case: Achaemenian Persia. The book identifies three core components of an imperial theology that have...