Ancient states and infrastructural power : Europe, Asia, and America

Weitere Verfasser: Ando, Clifford 1969- , [HerausgeberIn]
Richardson, Seth Francis Corning, 1968- , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017].
Ausgabe: First edition.
Umfang/Format: vi, 309 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Empire and after
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Parallelausgabe: Ancient states and infrastructural power (Online version)
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Before things worked : a "low-power" model of early Mesopotamia / Seth Richardson
  • Property claims and state formation in the archaic Greek world / Emily Mackil
  • Western Zhou despotism / Wang Haicheng
  • The ambitions of government : territoriality and infrastructural power in ancient Rome / Clifford Ando
  • Populist despotism and infrastructural power in the later Roman Empire / John Weisweiler
  • Territorializing Iran in late antiquity : autocracy, aristocracy, and the infrastructure of empire / Richard Payne
  • Kinship and the performance of Inca despotic and infrastructural power / R. Alan Covey
  • Statehood, taxation, and state infrastructural power in Visigothic Iberia / Damián Fernández
  • Did the Byzantine Empire have "ecumenical" or "universal" aspirations? / Anthony Kaldellis.