The Early State / / ed. by Henri J. M. Claessen, Peter Skalnik.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
©1978
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Reprint 2011
Language:English
Series:New Babylon : Studies in the Social Sciences , 32
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Physical Description:1 online resource (689 p.) :; 3 maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • I-IV
  • Preface
  • List of Contributors
  • Contents
  • PART ONE: Thesis
  • 1 The Early State: Theories and Hypotheses
  • 2 State Origins: A Reappraisal
  • 3 Some Theoretical Problems of the Study of the Early State
  • 4 The Origin of the State Among the Nomads of Asia
  • PART TWO: Antithesis
  • 5 Angkor: Society and State
  • 6 Ankole: Pastoral Hegemony
  • 7 Axum
  • 8 The Legitimation of the Aztec State
  • 9 China
  • 10 The Early State in Ancient Egypt
  • 11 The Early State in France
  • 12 Early States in Ancient Georgia
  • 13 The Early State in Hawaii
  • 14 Early State of the Incas
  • 15 The Galla State of Jimma Abba Jifar
  • 16 The Kachari State: The Character of Early State-like Formations in the Hill Districts of Northeast India
  • 17 The Kuba State
  • 18 The Mauryan State
  • 19 The Early State in Norway
  • 20 The Early State Among the Scythians
  • 21 Early State in Tahiti
  • 22 Early States in the Voltaic Basin
  • 23 Yoruba City-States (at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century)
  • 24 Zande
  • PART THREE: Synthesis
  • 25 The Early State: A Structural Approach
  • 26 The Early State as a Process
  • 27 Limits: Beginning and End of the Early State
  • 28 The Early State: Models and Reality
  • Biographical Notes
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects