Ancient States and Infrastructural Power (Ebook) von Clifford Ando

Ancient States and Infrastructural Power
Der Artikel wird am Ende des Bestellprozesses zum Download zur Verfügung gestellt.
Europe, Asia, and America
 Ebook
Sofort lieferbar | Lieferzeit: Sofort lieferbar

84,99 €* Ebook

ISBN-13:
9780812294170
Veröffentl:
2017
Einband:
Ebook
Seiten:
320
Autor:
Clifford Ando
eBook Format:
PDF
eBook-Typ:
Reflowable Web PDF
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Kurzbeschreibung

Ancient States and Infrastructural Power examines how early states built their territorial, legal, and political powers before they had the capacity to enforce them. Contributors trace how state power first developed from the Andes to China, from Babylon to Rome.

Beschreibung
While ancient states are often characterized in terms of the powers that they claimed to possess, the contributors to this book argue 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 Ancient States and Infrastructural Power a distinguished group of scholars examines the ways in which early states built their territorial, legal, and political powers before they had the capabilities to enforce them.The volume brings Greek and Roman historians together with specialists on early Mesopotamia, late antique Persia, ancient China, Visigothic Iberia, and the Inca empire to compare various models of state power across regional and disciplinary divisions. How did the polis become the body that regulates property rights? Why did Chinese and Persian states maintain aristocracies that sometimes challenged their autocracies? How did Babylon and Rome promote the state as the custodian of moral goods? In worlds without clear borders, how did societies from Rome to Byzantium come to share legal and social identities rooted in concepts of territory? From the Inca empire to Visigothic Iberia, why did tributary practices reinforce territorial ideas about membership?Contributors address how states first claimed and developed the ability to delineate territory, promote laws, and establish political identity; and they investigate how the powers that states appropriated came to be seen as their natural and normal domain.Contributors: Clifford Ando, R. Alan Covey, Damin Fernndez, Anthony Kaldellis, Emily Mackil, Richard Payne, Seth Richardson, Wang Haicheng, John Weisweiler.

 

Schlagwörter zu:

Ancient States and Infrastructural Power von Clifford Ando - mit der ISBN: 9780812294170

HISTORY / Historiography; Ancient Studies; Cultural Studies; History, Online-Buchhandlung


 

Kunden Rezensionen: Ancient States and Infrastructural Power | Buch oder eBook | Clifford Ando

Zu diesem Artikel ist noch keine Rezension vorhanden.
Helfen sie anderen Besuchern und verfassen Sie selbst eine Rezension.


 

Kunden, die sich für: "Ancient States and Infrastructural Power" von Clifford Ando als Buch oder eBook

interessiert haben, schauten sich auch die folgenden Bücher & eBooks an: