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

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While ancient states are often characterized in terms of the powers that they claimed to possess, this book argues that they were in fact fundamentally weak, both in the exercise of force outside of war and in the infrastructural and regulatory powers that such force would, in theory, defend. In Anc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ando, Clifford (Editor ), Richardson, Seth (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2017.
Colección:Empire and after.
Temas:
Power (Social sciences) > Europe > History.
Power (Social sciences) > Asia > History.
Power (Social sciences) > America > History.
Civilisation ancienne.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
HISTORY > Historiography.
Politics and government
Power (Social sciences)
Rome > Politics and government.
Mediterranean Region > Politics and government.
Rome > Politique et gouvernement.
Méditerranée, Région de la > Politique et gouvernement.
Rome (Empire)
Mediterranean Region
America
Asia
Europe
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : states and state power in antiquity / Clifford Ando
  • 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.

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