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"Dividing the realm in order to govern" : the spatial organization of the Song state (960-1276 CE) /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mostern, Ruth, 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Harvard University Asia Center, ©2011.
Colección:Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 73.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.