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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2015]
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Colección: | Oxford studies in early empires.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.