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State Power in Ancient China and Rome (Hardcover)
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State Power in Ancient China and Rome (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Early Empires
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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.
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