Ancient States and Infrastructural Power : : Europe, Asia, and America / / Seth Richardson, Clifford Ando.
While ancient states are often characterized in terms of the powers that they claimed to possess, the contributors to this book argue that they were in fact fundamentally weak, both in the exercise of force outside of war and in the infrastructural and regulatory powers that such force would, in the...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package |
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Empire and After
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 20 illus. |
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