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Ancient States and Infrastructural Power : Europe, Asia, and America / Seth Richardson, Clifford Ando. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017] ©2017 1 online resource (320 p.) : 20 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Empire and After Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: States and State Power in Antiquity -- Chapter 1. Before Things Worked: A "Low-Power" Model of Early Mesopotamia -- Chapter 2. Property Claims and State Formation in the Archaic Greek World -- Chapter 3. Western Zhou Despotism -- Chapter 4. The Ambitions of Government: Territoriality and Infrastructural Power in Ancient Rome -- Chapter 5. Populist Despotism and Infrastructural Power in the Later Roman Empire -- Chapter 6. Territorializing Iran in Late Antiquity: Autocracy, Aristocracy, and the Infrastructure of Empire -- Chapter 7. Kinship and the Performance of Inca Despotic and Infrastructural Power -- Chapter 8. Statehood, Taxation, and State Infrastructural Power in Visigothic Iberia -- Chapter 9. Did the Byzantine Empire Have "Ecumenical" or "Universal" Aspirations? -- Contributors -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Citations restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 theory, defend. In Ancient States and Infrastructural Power a distinguished group of scholars examines the ways in which early states built their territorial, legal, and political powers before they had the capabilities to enforce them.The volume brings Greek and Roman historians together with specialists on early Mesopotamia, late antique Persia, ancient China, Visigothic Iberia, and the Inca empire to compare various models of state power across regional and disciplinary divisions. How did the polis become the body that regulates property rights? Why did Chinese and Persian states maintain aristocracies that sometimes challenged their autocracies? How did Babylon and Rome promote the state as the custodian of moral goods? In worlds without clear borders, how did societies from Rome to Byzantium come to share legal and social identities rooted in concepts of territory? From the Inca empire to Visigothic Iberia, why did tributary practices reinforce territorial ideas about membership?Contributors address how states first claimed and developed the ability to delineate territory, promote laws, and establish political identity; and they investigate how the powers that states appropriated came to be seen as their natural and normal domain.Contributors: Clifford Ando, R. Alan Covey, Damián Fernández, Anthony Kaldellis, Emily Mackil, Richard Payne, Seth Richardson, Wang Haicheng, John Weisweiler. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2020) Civilization, Ancient. Comparative government. Political science History To 1500. Power (Social sciences) History To 1500. State, The History To 1500. Ancient Studies. Cultural Studies. History. HISTORY / Ancient / General. bisacsh Ando, Clifford, editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt Richardson, Seth, editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package 9783110649826 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2017 9783110540550 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE ENGLISH 2017 9783110625264 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Classical Studies 2017 9783110547733 ZDB-23-DGD Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package 2017 9783110550306 print 9780812249316 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812294170 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812294170 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780812294170.jpg |
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Ancient States and Infrastructural Power : Europe, Asia, and America / Empire and After Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: States and State Power in Antiquity -- Chapter 1. Before Things Worked: A "Low-Power" Model of Early Mesopotamia -- Chapter 2. Property Claims and State Formation in the Archaic Greek World -- Chapter 3. Western Zhou Despotism -- Chapter 4. The Ambitions of Government: Territoriality and Infrastructural Power in Ancient Rome -- Chapter 5. Populist Despotism and Infrastructural Power in the Later Roman Empire -- Chapter 6. Territorializing Iran in Late Antiquity: Autocracy, Aristocracy, and the Infrastructure of Empire -- Chapter 7. Kinship and the Performance of Inca Despotic and Infrastructural Power -- Chapter 8. Statehood, Taxation, and State Infrastructural Power in Visigothic Iberia -- Chapter 9. Did the Byzantine Empire Have "Ecumenical" or "Universal" Aspirations? -- Contributors -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Citations |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: States and State Power in Antiquity -- Chapter 1. Before Things Worked: A "Low-Power" Model of Early Mesopotamia -- Chapter 2. Property Claims and State Formation in the Archaic Greek World -- Chapter 3. Western Zhou Despotism -- Chapter 4. The Ambitions of Government: Territoriality and Infrastructural Power in Ancient Rome -- Chapter 5. Populist Despotism and Infrastructural Power in the Later Roman Empire -- Chapter 6. Territorializing Iran in Late Antiquity: Autocracy, Aristocracy, and the Infrastructure of Empire -- Chapter 7. Kinship and the Performance of Inca Despotic and Infrastructural Power -- Chapter 8. Statehood, Taxation, and State Infrastructural Power in Visigothic Iberia -- Chapter 9. Did the Byzantine Empire Have "Ecumenical" or "Universal" Aspirations? -- Contributors -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Citations |
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