Planting Parliaments in Eurasia, 1850–1950: Concepts, Practices, and Mythologies (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)

Synopsis

Parliaments are often seen as Western European and North American institutions and their establishment in other parts of the world as a derivative and mostly defective process. This book challenges such Eurocentric visions by retracing the evolution of modern institutions of collective decision-making in Eurasia. Breaching the divide between different area studies, the book provides nine case studies covering the area between the eastern edge of Asia and Eastern Europe, including the former Russian, Ottoman, Qing, and Japanese Empires as well as their successor states. In particular, it explores the appeals to concepts of parliamentarism, deliberative decision-making, and constitutionalism; historical practices related to parliamentarism; and political mythologies across Eurasia. It focuses on the historical and “reestablished” institutions of decision-making, which consciously hark back to indigenous traditions and adapt them to the changing circumstances in imperial and postimperial contexts. Thereby, the book explains how representative institutions were needed for the establishment of modernized empires or postimperial states but at the same time offered a connection to the past.

Copyright:

2021

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Publisher Quality

Book Size:

322 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000393316

Related ISBNs:

9780367691271, 9780367745868, 9781003158608

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

05/31/21

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Ivan Sablin and Egas Moniz Bandeira

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Social Studies

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Ivan Sablin

Edited by:

Egas Moniz Bandeira