This study provides evidence that culture understood as values and beliefs moves very slowly. Despite massive institutional change, values and beliefs in transition countries have not changed much over the last 20 years. Evidence suggests that culture is affected by the long run historical past, in particular the participation in empires for over 100 years. Current institutional evolutions in t...

^ 200 Road systems in the service of empires have long inspired archaeologists and ancient historians alike. Using etymology, textual analysis and archaeology the author deconstructs the road system of the Khmer, empire builders of early historic Cambodia. Far from being the creation of one king, the road system evolved organically to serve expeditions, pilgrimages and embedded exchange routes ...

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This study provides evidence that culture understood as values and beliefs moves very slowly. Despite massive institutional change, values and beliefs in transition countries have not changed much over the last 20 years. Evidence suggests that culture is affected by the long run historical past, in particular the participation in empires for over 100 years. Current institutional evolutions in t...

Recensé : Foliard Daniel, Combattre, punir, photographier. Empires coloniaux, 1890-1914, Paris, La Découverte, 2020, 454 p.

since the advent of islam in central asia, several types of empires ruled on the region; the arabs empire (umayyads and abbasids), the ghaznavid, the seljuks, the mongols, the tatars, and the russians. the abbasids actual power did not last more than a century and a half and gradually independent states emerged at the eastern parts of the empire. the role of caliphate system was then limited an...