The Dynamics of Ancient Empires State Power from Assyria to Byzantium

Zusatztext its parts are varied and interesting, the unexceeded sum makes an absorbing (at times provocative) volume. Informationen zum Autor Ian Morris is Professor of Classics and History, Stanford University. Walter Scheidel is Professor of Classics, Stanford University. Klappentext The Dynamics of Ancient Empires is designed to address the deficit in the comparative study of ancient empires in the western Old World, and to encourage dialogue across disciplinary boundaries by examining the fundamental features of the successive and partly overlapping imperial states that dominated much of the Near East and the Mediterranean in the first millennia BCE and CE. Zusammenfassung The Dynamics of Ancient Empires is designed to address the deficit in the comparative study of ancient empires in the western Old World, and to encourage dialogue across disciplinary boundaries by examining the fundamental features of the successive and partly overlapping imperial states that dominated much of the Near East and the Mediterranean in the first millennia BCE and CE.

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• Authors: Ian Morris, Ian/ Scheidel Morris, Walter Scheidel
• Assisted by: Ian Morris (Editor), Walter Scheidel (Editor), Scheidel Walter (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.12.2008
• EAN: 9780195371581
• ISBN: 978-0-19-537158-1
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Oxford Studies in Early Empire; Oxford Studies in Early Empire
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; HISTORY / Ancient / General, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Empires & historical states, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Historical states, empires, territories and regions