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Imperialism -- History.
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Civilization, Ancient.
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Descript |
xxii, 523 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
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text |
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cartographic image cri |
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still image sti |
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unmediated |
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Contents |
The shadow empires: imperial state formation along the Chinese-Nomad frontier / Thomas J. Barfield -- Written on water: designs and dynamics in the Portuguese Estado da Índia / Sanjay Subrahmanyam -- The Wari empire of Middle Horizon Peru: the epistemological challenge of documenting an empire without documentary evidence / Katharina Schreiber -- The Achaemenid Persian empire (c. 550-c. 330 BCE): continuities, adaptations, transformations / Amélie Kuhrt -- The Aztec Empire and the Mesoamerican world system / Michael E. Smith -- On the edge of empire: form and substance in the Satavahana dynasty / Carla M. Sinopoli -- Dynamics of imperial adjustment in Spanish America: ideology and social integration / Kathleen Deagan -- Politics, resources, and blood in the Inka Empire / Terence N. D'Altroy -- Egypt and Nubia / Robert Morkot -- Coercion, resistance, and hierarchy: local processes and imperial strategies in the Vijayanagara Empire / Kathleen D. Morrison -- Aztec hearts and minds: religion and the state in the Aztec empire / Elizabeth M. Brumfiel -- Inventing empire in ancient Rome / Greg Woolf -- The reconfiguration of memory in the eastern Roman empire / Susan E. Alcock -- Cosmos, central authority, and communities in the early Chinese empire / Robin D.S. Yates -- The fall of the Assyrian empire: ancient and modern interpretations / Mario Liverani -- The Carolingian empire: Rome reborn? / John Moreland -- Cuzco, another Rome? / Sabine MacCormack |
Alt author |
Alcock, Susan E. editor.
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ISBN |
9780521112345 (pbk.) : |
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0521112346 (pbk.) : |
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