Ancient States and Infrastructural Power : : Europe, Asia, and America /

Ancient States and Infrastructural Power : : Europe, Asia, and America / / Seth Richardson, Clifford Ando.

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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
HerausgeberIn:
Ando, Clifford,
Richardson, Seth,
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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Table of Contents:
  • 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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