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"Imperial administration" as a book category covers the structures, practices, and policies by which empires and large multiethnic states have been governed. Works in this category examine bureaucratic institutions, legal systems, taxation and revenue collection, infrastructure and communications, colonial and provincial governance, the relationship between military and civil authorities, and the personnel and careers of administrators—from ancient satrapies and imperial China to European colonial systems and modern centralized states. It includes comparative and case-study histories, theoretical and institutional analyses, administrative manuals and primary-source documents, as well as biographies of key officials, appealing to historians, political scientists, public-administration scholars, and readers interested in how complex polities were organized and controlled across time and space.

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