Dividing the realm in order to govern : : the spatial organization of the Song state (960-1276 CE) / / Ruth Mostern.
States are inherently and fundamentally geographical. Sovereignty is based on control of territory. This book uses Song China to explain how a pre-industrial regime organized itself spatially in order to exercise authority. On more than a thousand occasions, the Song court founded, abolished, promot...
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| Superior document: | Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series ; 73 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, Massachusetts ;, London : : Harvard University Asia Center,, [2011] 2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ;
73. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- pt. 1. The meaning of territory
- The political economy of spatial change in imperial China
- The spatial organization of state power in Song China
- Following the tracks of Yu : depictions of imperial territory
- pt. 2. The history of territory
- "Strengthen the trunk and weaken the branches" : the fall and rise of the territorial state (750-1005)
- "Enrich the state and let the people prosper" : spatial organization in China's long eleventh century (1005-1127)
- The end of the middle-period spatial cycle (1127-1368)
- Appendix: The digital gazetteer of Song China / Ruth Mostern with Elijah Meeks.