Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction
  • Preface
  • Studying the state / Walter Scheidel
  • Egypt / Joseph G. Manning
  • Fertile crescent city-states / Steven Garfinkle
  • Mesopotamian empires / Gojko Barjamovic
  • Anatolian states / Trevor Bryce
  • Jewish states / Seth Schwartz
  • Iranian empires / Josef Wiesehofer
  • Bronze age Greece / John Bennet
  • Greek city-states / Mogens H. Hansen
  • Greek multi-city states / Ian Morris
  • The Greek koinon / Emily Mackil
  • Hellenistic empires / John Ma
  • Carthage / Walter Ameling
  • The Roman Empire I: the republic / Henrik Mouritsen
  • The Roman Empire ii: the monarchy / Peter F. Bang
  • The Byzantine successor state / John Haldon
  • The Germanic successor states / Ian Wood
  • The first Islamic empire / Chase Robinson.