State power in ancient China and Rome
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書誌事項
State power in ancient China and Rome
(Oxford studies in early empires / Nicola Di Cosmo, Mark Edward Lewis, and Walter Scheidel, series editiors)
Oxford University Press, c2015
大学図書館所蔵 全3件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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 massive natural experiment in social evolution that provides unique insight into the complexities of historical causation. Comparisons between the two empires shed new light
on the factors that led to particular outcomes and help us understand similarities and differences in ancient state formation. The explicitly comparative perspective adopted in this volume opens up a dialogue between scholars from different areas of specialization, encouraging them to address big
questions about the nature of imperial rule. In a series of interlocking case studies, leading experts of early China and the ancient Mediterranean explore the relationship between rulers and elite groups, the organization and funding of government, and the ways in which urban development reflected the interplay between state power and communal civic institutions. Bureaucratization, famously associated with Qin and Han China but long less prominent in the Roman world, receives special attention
as an index of the ambitions and capabilities of kings and emperors. The volume concludes with a look at the preconditions for the emergence of divine rulership. Taken together, these pioneering contributions lay the foundations for a systematic comparative history of early empires.
目次
- Contributors
- Chronology
- Maps
- Introduction
- Walter Scheidel
- 1 Kingship and elite formation
- Peter Fibiger Bang and Karen Turner
- 2 Toward a comparative understanding of the executive decision-making process in China and Rome
- Corey Brennan
- 3 The Han bureaucracy: its origin, structure and development
- Dingxin Zhao
- 4 The common denominator: late Roman imperial bureaucracy from a comparative perspective
- Peter Eich
- 5 State revenue and expenditure in the Han and Roman empires
- Walter Scheidel
- 6 Urban systems in the Han and Roman empires: state power and social control
- Carlos Norena
- 7 Public spaces in cities in the Roman and Han empires
- Mark Lewis
- 8 Ghosts, gods, and the coming apocalypse: empire and religion in early China and ancient Rome
- Michael Puett
- Bibliography
- Index
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