Research Catalog

Title

The early state, its alternatives and analogues / edited by Leonid E. Grinin ... [et al.].

Publication

Volgograd, Russia : 'Uchitel' Pub. House, c2004.

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Additional Authors

Grinin, L. E. (Leonid Efimovich)

Description

vi, 535 p. : ill., maps; 22 cm.

Subjects

• Civilization, Ancient
• State, The > Origin
• Political anthropology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Alternatives of social evolution / Dmitri M. Bondarenko, Leonid E. Grinin and Andrey V. Korotayev -- Was the chiefdom a congelation of ideas? / Robert L. Carneiro -- Beyond states and empires : chiefdoms and informal politics / Patrick Chabal, Gary Feinman and Peter Skalník -- Alternative models of middle range society. 'Individualistic' Asia vs. 'collectivistic' America? / Yuri E. Berezkin -- Was the state inevitable? / Henri J.M. Claessen -- The early state and its analogues : a comparative analysis / Leonid E. Grinin -- Early dynastic Egypt : a socio-environmental/anthropological hypothesis of 'unification' / Dmitri B. Proussakov -- The ruler as possessor of power in Sumer / Vladimir V. Emelianov -- Ritual and rationality : religious roots of the bureaucratic state in ancient China / Richard Baum -- Conquest warfare, strategies of resistance, and the rise of the Zapotec early state / Charles S. Spencer and Elsa M. Redmond -- The pristine myth of the pristine state in America / Richard P. Schaedel and David G. Robinson -- The transition to statehood in Central Europe / Ludomir R. Lozny -- Formation and development of states in the Congo Basin / Eleonora S. L'vova -- The chiefdom : precursor of the tribe? (Some trends of political evolution in north-east Yemeni highlands) / Andrey V. Korotayev -- From local communities to megacommunity : Biniland in the 1st millennium B.C.-19th century A.D. / Dmitri M. Bondarenko -- Greece : the stateless polis (11th-4th centuries B.C.) / Moshe Berent -- Rome : socio-political evolution in the 8th-2nd centuries B.C. / Dmitri V. Dozhdev -- Early state and democracy / Leonid E. Grinin --
• Cultural capital, livestock raiding, and the military advantage of traditional pastoralists / William Irons -- Nomads of the Eurasian steppes in historical retrospective / Anatoly M. Khazanov -- Nomadic empires in evolutionary perspective / Nikolay N. Kradin -- Mongolian nomadic society of the empire period / Tatyana D. Skrynnikova.

Call Number

JFD 05-5888

ISBN

5705705476

OCLC

56596768

Title

The early state, its alternatives and analogues / edited by Leonid E. Grinin ... [et al.].

Imprint

Volgograd, Russia : 'Uchitel' Pub. House, c2004.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Grinin, L. E. (Leonid Efimovich)

Research Call Number

JFD 05-5888