Ancient states and infrastructural power : Europe, Asia, and America

La jaquette indique :"While ancient states are often characterized in terms of the powers that they claimed to possess, this book argues 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...

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Autres auteurs : Ando Clifford (Éditeur scientifique), Richardson Seth (Éditeur scientifique)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : Ancient states and infrastructural power : Europe, Asia, and America / edited by Clifford Ando and Seth Richardson
Publié : Philadelphia, Penn. : University of Pennsylvania Press , copyright 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VI-309 p.)
Collection : Empire and after Clifford Ando
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