Research Catalog

Title

Polities : authority, identities, and change / Yale H. Ferguson and Richard W. Mansbach.

Author

Ferguson, Yale H.

Publication

Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

Mansbach, Richard W., 1943-

Description

xiv, 495 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in international relations

Uniform Title

Studies in international relations (Columbia, S.C.)

Subjects

• State, The > History
• Nation-state > History
• International relations > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-451) and indexes.

Contents

Introduction : new paths to theory -- The subject is politics -- Mesopotamia : fission-fusion of the first city polities and empires -- The sources and limits of central authority in mesopotamia -- Greece : structural features of a watershed civilization -- The Polis : triumph and challenge of citizenship -- Ancient China : overlapping polities in an imperial framework -- The mandate of heaven : authority in ancient China -- Mesoamerica : a multitude of polities -- Mesoamerica and the Spanish conquest : the collision of civilizations -- Islam : the evolution of a messianic movement -- The caliphate : the limits of dynastic power -- Italy after Rome : complexity at the nexus of the ancient and modern worlds -- Medieval Italy : competing visions of unity and authority -- The past as prelude.

Call Number

JFE 96-13952

ISBN

• 1570031282 (cloth)
• 1570030774 (paper)

LCCN

95050229

OCLC

33983891

Author

Ferguson, Yale H.

Title

Polities : authority, identities, and change / Yale H. Ferguson and Richard W. Mansbach.

Imprint

Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c1996.

Series

Studies in international relations

Studies in international relations (Columbia, S.C.)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-451) and indexes.

Added Author

Mansbach, Richard W., 1943-

Research Call Number

JFE 96-13952