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Polities : authority, identities, and change
- 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, [1996], ©1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | JC11 .F45 1996 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Mansbach, Richard W., 1943-
- Description
- xiv, 495 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Studies in international relations
- Uniform Title
- Studies in international relations (Columbia, S.C.)
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction: New Paths to Theory -- 2. The Subject Is Politics -- 3. Mesopotamia: Fission-Fusion of the First City Polities and Empires -- 4. The Sources and Limits of Central Authority in Mesopotamia -- 5. Greece: Structural Features of a Watershed Civilization -- 6. The Polis: Triumph and Challenge of Citizenship -- 7. Ancient China: Overlapping Polities in an Imperial Framework -- 8. The Mandate of Heaven: Authority in Ancient China -- 9. Mesoamerica: A Multitude of Polities -- 10. Mesoamerica and the Spanish Conquest: The Collision of Civilizations -- 11. Islam: The Evolution of a Messianic Movement -- 12. The Caliphate: The Limits of Dynastic Power -- 13. Italy after Rome: Complexity at the Nexus of the Ancient and Modern Worlds -- 14. Medieval Italy: Competing Visions of Unity and Authority -- 15. The Past as Prelude.
- ISBN
- 1570031282
- 1570030774 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 95050229
- OCLC
- 33983891
- ocm33983891
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries