7. Military Patronage and Hodgson’s Genealogy of State Centralization in Early Modern Eurasia

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. 1. The Ventures of Marshall G. S. Hodgson 1
4. 2. Islamic History and World History: The Double Enterprise of Marshall G. S. Hodgson 16
5. Hodgson’s Ghosts
6. 3. From Gibbon to Hodgson and Back 25
7. 4. Hodgson, Islam, and World History in the Modern Age 38
8. Hodgson and the New World History
9. 5. The Invention of World History from the Spirit of Nonviolent Resistance 55
10. 6. Decentering World History: Marshall Hodgson and the UNESCO Project 82
11. 7. Military Patronage and Hodgson’s Genealogy of State Centralization in Early Modern Eurasia 102
12. Hodgson and the New Islamic Studies
13. 8. Harems and Cathedrals: The Question of Gender and Sexuality in the Work of Marshall Hodgson 117
14. 9. The Problem of Muslim Universality 145
15. List of Contributors 163