State Power in Ancient China and Rome, Scheidel Walter
Автор: Dr Philip Matyszak Название: 24 Hours in Ancient Rome ISBN: 1789291275 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781789291278 Издательство: Michael O'Mara Рейтинг: Цена: 1305.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание: Get to know the real Rome during a compelling 24 hours in the lives of the people who lived there.
Описание: This volume brings together experts in the history of the ancient Mediterranean and early China and presents a series of comparative case studies on clearly defined aspects of state formation in early eastern and western Eurasia, focusing on the process of initial developmental convergence.
Автор: Josiah Osgood Название: Rome and the Making of a World State, 150 BCE–20 CE ISBN: 1108413196 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108413190 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4118.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Surveying the fall of the Roman Republic and the establishment of imperial government, this volume can be used as the main textbook in courses on Roman history and Latin literature. Engagingly written, it includes forty-five maps and illustrations and extensive suggestions for further reading.
Автор: Ford, Randolph B. (state University Of New York, Albany) Название: Rome, china, and the barbarians ISBN: 1108463010 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108463010 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4434.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Examines how ancient Greeks, Romans, and Chinese constructed a civilized sense of Self and a `barbarian` Other, and how these notions held up in critical periods of barbarian invasion and conquest. Gives original insights into the `fall` of the Western Roman Empire and the sixth-century reunification of China.
Автор: Wu Название: Material Culture, Power, and Identity in Ancient China ISBN: 1107134021 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107134027 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 17266.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This comprehensive study of a mysterious state in ancient China offers fresh new perspectives for interpreting the history, archaeology, and art of China`s late Bronze Age. The careful scrutiny of the splendid bronze artefacts and their inscriptions reveal fascinating messages related to power and identity.
Автор: Karlsson Mattias Название: Relations of Power in Early Neo-Assyrian State Ideology ISBN: 1501516191 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501516191 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Рейтинг: Цена: 5569.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This volume examines the state ideology of Assyria in the Early Neo-Assyrian period (934-745 BCE) focusing on how power relations between the Mesopotamian deities, the Assyrian king, and foreign lands are described and depicted. It undertakes a close reading of delimited royal inscriptions and iconography making use of postcolonial and gender theory, and addresses such topics as royal deification, "religious imperialism," ethnicity and empire, and gendered imagery. The important contribution of this study lies especially in its identification of patterns of ideological continuity and variation within the reigns of individual rulers, between various localities, and between the different rulers of this period, and in its discussion of the place of Early Neo-Assyrian state ideology in the overall development of Assyrian propaganda. It includes several indexed appendices, which list all primary sources, present all divine and royal epithets, and provide all of the "royal visual representations," and incorporates numerous illustrations, such as maps, plans, and royal iconography.
Автор: Barbieri-Low Anthony J. Название: Ancient Egypt and Early China: State, Society, and Culture ISBN: 0295748893 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295748894 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 6270.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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Although they existed more than a millennium apart, the great civilizations of New Kingdom Egypt (ca. 1548–1086 BCE) and Han dynasty China (206 BCE–220 CE) shared intriguing similarities. Both were centered around major, flood-prone rivers—the Nile and the Yellow River—and established complex hydraulic systems to manage their power. Both spread their territories across vast empires that were controlled through warfare and diplomacy and underwent periods of radical reform led by charismatic rulers—the “heretic king” Akhenaten and the vilified reformer Wang Mang. Universal justice was dispensed through courts, and each empire was administered by bureaucracies staffed by highly trained scribes who held special status. Egypt and China each developed elaborate conceptions of an afterlife world and created games of fate that facilitated access to these realms.
This groundbreaking volume offers an innovative comparison of these two civilizations. Through a combination of textual, art historical, and archaeological analyses, Ancient Egypt and Early China reveals shared structural traits of each civilization as well as distinctive features.
Описание: Reveals how the iconoclastic Attalid dynasty of the ancient city of Pergamon ruled the Anatolian peninsula - and influenced our entire imagination of the Classical world - with only budgets, coins, and clever bureaucratic maneuvers, casting a single empire around Greek cities on the Aegean coast and indigenous villages on the steppe.
Описание: Presents a multi-disciplinary research method to study Chinese civilisation, extensively using theories of archaeology, history, and anthropology, to analyse archaeological discoveries and the various histories over time.
Описание: Presents a multi-disciplinary research method to study Chinese civilisation, extensively using theories of archaeology, history, and anthropology, to analyse archaeological discoveries and the various histories over time.
Автор: Watson Alan Название: The State, Law and Religion: Pagan Rome ISBN: 0820341185 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820341187 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3049.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: <p>Written by one of our most respected legal historians, this book analyzes the interaction of law and religion in ancient Rome. As such, it offers a major new perspective on the nature and development of Roman law in the early republic and empire before Christianity was recognized and encouraged by Constantine.</p><p>At the heart of the book is the apparent paradox that Roman private law is remarkably secular even though, until the late second century B.C., the Romans were regarded (and regarded themselves) as the most religious people in the world. Adding to the paradox was the fact that the interpretation of private law, which dealt with relations between private citizens, lay in the hands of the College of Pontiffs, an advisory body of priests.</p><p>Alan Watson traces the roots of the paradox—and the way in which Roman law ultimately developed—to the conflict between patricians and plebeians that occurred in the mid-fifth century B.C. When the plebeians demanded equality of all citizens before the law, the patricians prepared in response the Twelve Tables, a law code that included only matters considered appropriate for plebeians. Public law, which dealt with public officials and the governance of the state, was totally excluded form the code, thus preserving gross inequalities between the classes of Roman citizens. Religious law, deemed to be the preserve of patrician priests, was also excluded. As Watson notes, giving a monopoly of legal interpretation to the College of Pontiffs was a shrewd move to maintain patrician advantages; however, a fundamental consequence was that modes of legal reasoning appropriate for judgments in sacred law were carried over to private law, where they were often less appropriate. Such reasoning, Watson contends, persists even in modern legal systems.</p><p>After sketching the tenets of Roman religion and the content of the Twelve Tables, Watson proceeds to such matters as formalism in religion and law, religion and property, and state religion versus alien religion. In his concluding chapter, he compares the law that emerged after the adoption of the Twelve Tables with the law that reportedly existed under the early Roman kings.</p>
Описание: This stimulating, uniquely organized, and wonderfully readable comparison of ancient Rome and China offers provocative insights to students and general readers of world history. The book's narrative is clear, completely jargon-free, strikingly independent, and addresses the complete cycles of two world empires. The topics explored include nation formation, state building, empire building, arts of government, strategies of superpowers, and decline and fall.
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