Oxford Studies in Early Empires – serie
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The Dynamics of Ancient Empires
State Power from Assyria to Byzantium
Av Ian Morris, Walter Scheidel
Häftad, 2010
854 kr
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Transcending ethnic, linguistic, and religious boundaries, early empires shaped thousands of years of world history. Yet despite the global prominence of empire, individual cases are often studied in isolation. This series seeks to change the terms of the debate by promoting cross-cultural, …
Empires and Communities in the Post-Roman and Islamic World, C. 400-1000 CE
Inbunden, 2021
1446 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.This book deals with the ways empires affect smaller communities like ethnic …
Xiongnu
The World's First Nomadic Empire
Inbunden, 2024
1451 kr
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This book raises the case of the world's first nomadic empire, the Xiongnu, as a prime example of the sophisticated developments and powerful influence of nomadic regimes. Launching from a reconceptualization of the social and economic institutions of mobile pastoralists, the collective chapters …
State Power in Ancient China and Rome
Av Walter Scheidel, Walter Scheidel
Inbunden, 2015
2092 kr
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The Chinese and the Romans created the largest empires of the ancient world. Separated by thousands of miles of steppe, mountains and sea, these powerful states developed independently and with very limited awareness of each other's existence. This parallel process of state formation served as a …
Cosmopolitanism and Empire
Universal Rulers, Local Elites, and Cultural Integration in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean
Av Myles Lavan, Richard E. Payne m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
2186 kr
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The empires of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean invented cosmopolitan politics. In the first millennia BCE and CE, a succession of territorially extensive states incorporated populations of unprecedented cultural diversity. Cosmopolitanism and Empire traces the development of cultural …
Power and Public Finance at Rome, 264-49 BCE
Av James Tan
Inbunden, 2017
2186 kr
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Rome's wars delivered great wealth to the conquerors, but how did this affect politics and society on the home front? In Power and Public Finance at Rome, James Tan offers the first examination of the Roman Republic from the perspective of fiscal sociology and makes the case that no understanding …
The Confucian-Legalist State: A New Theory of Chinese History
Av Dingxin Zhao
Häftad, 2018
859 kr
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In The Confucian-Legalist State, Dingxin Zhao offers a radically new analysis of Chinese imperial history from the eleventh century BCE to the fall of the Qing dynasty. This study first uncovers the factors that explain how, and why, China developed into a bureaucratic empire under the Qin dynasty …
Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors
Häftad, 2018
1013 kr
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Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors challenges readers to reconsider China's relations with the rest of Eurasia. Investigating interstate competition and cooperation between the successive Sui and Tang dynasties and Turkic states of Mongolia from 580 to 800, Jonathan Skaff upends the …
Reign of Arrows
The Rise of the Parthian Empire in the Hellenistic Middle East
Inbunden, 2020
1461 kr
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From its origins as a minor nomadic tribe to its status as a major world empire, the rise of the Parthian state in the ancient world is nothing short of remarkable. In their early history, the Parthians benefitted from strong leadership, a flexible and accommodating cultural identity, and …
The Jiankang Empire in Chinese and World History
Inbunden, 2020
2092 kr
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This work offers a sweeping re-assessment of the Jiankang Empire (3rd-6th centuries CE), known as the Chinese "Southern Dynasties." It shows how, although one of the medieval world's largest empires, Jiankang has been rendered politically invisible by the standard narrative of Chinese nationalist …
Rome and China
Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires
Av Walter Scheidel, Walter Scheidel
Inbunden, 2009
2093 kr
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Two thousand years ago, up to one-half of the human species was contained within two political systems, the Roman empire in western Eurasia (centered on the Mediterranean Sea) and the Han empire in eastern Eurasia (centered on the great North China Plain). Both empires were broadly comparable in …
State Power in Ancient China and Rome
Av Walter Scheidel, Walter Scheidel
Häftad, 2021
803 kr
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Two thousand years ago, the Qin/Han and Roman empires were the largest political entities of the ancient world, developing simultaneously yet independently at opposite ends of Eurasia. Although their territories constituted only a small percentage of the global land mass, these two Eurasian …
Roman and Local Citizenship in the Long Second Century CE
Av Myles Lavan, Myles Lavan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1909 kr
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Imperial and Local Citizenship in the Long Second Century CE offers a radical new history of Roman citizenship in the long century before Caracalla's universal grant of citizenship in 212 CE. Earlier work portrayed the privileges of citizen status in this period as eroded by its wide diffusion. …
Northern Wei (386-534)
A New Form of Empire in East Asia
Av Scott Pearce
Inbunden, 2023
1167 kr
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Emerging from collapse of the Han empire, the founders of Northern Wei had come south from the grasslands of Inner Asia to conquer the rich farmlands of the Yellow River plains. Northern Wei was, in fact, the first of the so-called "conquest dynasties" complex states seen repeatedly in East Asian …
King of Kings
The Struggles of the Parthians and Romans to Dominate Western Asia
Inbunden, 2027
1315 kr
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This book draws on a wide variety of evidence to reevaluate the rapidly changing international environment of Western Asia from the 110s to the 50s BCE, challenging traditional Rome-centric perspectives of the geopolitical developments of this period to emphasize the agency and actions of the …
Founding the City
Statecraft and Urbanism in Northeast Africa and Southwest Asia, c. 200–100 BCE
Inbunden, 2026
1006 kr
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The founding, or re-founding, of cities was a powerful engine of local change in the empires created by Alexander the Great and his successors. However, in Founding the City, François Gerardin argues that a "new wave" of city foundations in the second century BCE played an equally decisive role in …
The Confucian-Legalist State
A New Theory of Chinese History
Av Dingxin Zhao
Inbunden, 2015
2422 kr
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The Confucian-Legalist State analyzes the history of China between the 11th century BCE and 1911 under the guidance of a new theory of social change. It centers on two questions. First, how and why China was unified and developed into a bureaucratic empire under the state of Qin in 221 BCE? Second, …
State Correspondence in the Ancient World
From New Kingdom Egypt to the Roman Empire
Av Karen Radner
Inbunden, 2014
2045 kr
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This book introduces the reader to the state correspondences of centralized states and empires of the Mediterranean and the Middle East from the 15th century BC to the 6th century AD, and analyses their role in ensuring the success and stability of these geographically extensive state systems. …
Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors
Culture, Power, and Connections, 580-800
Inbunden, 2012
2422 kr
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Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors challenges readers to reconsider China's relations with the rest of Eurasia. Investigating interstate competition and cooperation between the successive Sui and Tang dynasties and Turkic states of Mongolia from 580 to 800, Jonathan Skaff upends the …
Rome and China
Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires
Av Walter Scheidel, Walter Scheidel
Häftad, 2011
804 kr
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Transcending ethnic, linguistic, and religious boundaries, early empires shaped thousands of years of world history. Yet despite the global prominence of empire, individual cases are often studied in isolation. This series seeks to change the terms of the debate by promoting cross-cultural, …
Trouble in the West
Egypt and the Persian Empire, 525-332 BC
Inbunden, 2012
2234 kr
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Trouble in the West provides the first full and continuous account of the Persian-Egyptian War, a conflict that continued for nearly the two-hundred-year duration of the Persian Empire. Despite its status as the largest of all ancient Persian military enterprises- including any aimed at Greece- …
