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State power in ancient China and Rome /

Two thousand years ago, the Qin/Han and Roman empires were the largest political entities of the ancient world, developing simultaneously yet independently at opposite ends of Eurasia. Although their territories constituted only a small percentage of the global land mass, these two Eurasian polities...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Scheidel, Walter, 1966- (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Collection:Oxford studies in early empires.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction / Walter Scheidel
  • Kingship and elite formation / Peter Fibiger Bang and Karen Turner
  • Toward a comparative understanding of the executive decision-making process in China and Rome / Corey Brennan
  • The Han bureaucracy: its origin, structure and development / Dingxin Zhao
  • The common denominator: late Roman imperial bureaucracy from a comparative perspective / Peter Eich
  • State revenue and expenditure in the Han and Roman empires / Walter Scheidel
  • Urban systems in the Han and Roman empires: state power and social control / Carlos Noreña
  • Public spaces in cities in the Roman and Han empires / Mark Lewis
  • Ghosts, gods, and the coming apocalypse: empire and religion in early China and ancient Rome / Michael Puett.