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The Dynastic Extended Family: A Sketch of a Specific Type of Business Family
In contrast to the classic type of nuclear family in Western society, business families are different from the patterns of erosion of kinship...
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“Dynastic Democracy” Under the “Battling Begums,” 1991–2021
For several years, the Economist famously used the phrase “Battling Begums” to describe Bangladesh’s two successive female prime ministers because,...
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Governance, Monumentality, and Urbanism in the Northern Maya Lowlands During the Preclassic and Classic Periods
This article synthesizes monumentality, governance, urbanism, and regional statecraft in the Northern Maya Lowlands during the Preclassic and Classic...
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Political turnover, public employment, and local economic development: New empirical evidence on the impact of local political dynasties in the Brazilian “Nordeste”
The present paper assesses the impact of the size of the municipal public sector on local economic growth and the extent to which it is conditioned...
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‘Hustlers versus Dynasties’: contemporary political rhetoric in Kenya
Politicians have always been fascinated by the power of language and rhetoric in their quest to influence voters. For decades, ethnic-based political...
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Creating a New Era
If we look further into space and time, we could recognize more clearly where the position of Erlitou and its significance in the history of Hua-**a...
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Landscapes and Ethnicity: An Historical Archaeology of Khami-Phase Sites in Southwestern Zimbabwe
Although numerous dry-stone-walled Khami-phase sites are scattered throughout southwestern Zimbabwe, their finer archaeological and historical...
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Bei**g City
Today’s center of modern China’s political power was, at various times, also the central place of authority in its imperial past, known by different...
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Liangzhu culture and its challenges to traditional narratives of civilization emergence in China
Since its discovery, the Liangzhu Culture amazed the public with its unprecedentedly levels of development rivaling most of its contemporaneous and...
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Aristocratic Honours
The transformation of a medieval nobility into a landed aristocracy during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is examined. It is shown that...
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1830–1870: Colonial Noontide
This chapter explains the transformative colonisation acts of 1830–1870 that wrought change to this landscape, sought to understand or control it,...
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Ritual and State Making in Precolonial Rwanda
The interlacustrine states and kingdoms were some of the most influential African kingdoms that arose during the Late Iron Age, after AD 1000. As...
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Heilongjiang Province
Cap** China’s furthest northeast, Heilongjiang conjures images of snowy mountains, grasslands, and (seasonally) frozen bodies of water. The now...
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The Changing Behavior Pattern and Moral Ambiguity
Having discussed gang influence on different aspects of rural life from Chaps. 3 to 8...
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The Creation of Stable Dynastic Empires in East and Southeast Asia
The Qin Empire united China but soon fell, being replaced by the Han Empire, which lasted over 400 years to become China’s longest-lived dynasty. Han...
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Genealogy, Chên-Jên and Some Aspects of Kinship
The genealogical chart reproduced in Fig. 13.1 is translated from Tung Tso-pin’s 1952 compilation, with some omissions of attached details.1 It is...
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Et Tu, Brute? Wealth Inequality and the Political Economy of Authoritarian Replacement
What motivates elite factions to seek to replace an authoritarian incumbent? In this article, I provide a political economy theory of authoritarian...
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Shandong Province
Shandong Province, along with Henan, possesses a large share of archeological sites that trace back to the earliest progenitors of Chinese...