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A comparative study of thirty city-state cultures : an investigation / conducted by the Copenhagen Polis Centre ; edited by Mogens Herman Hansen.

Title
A comparative study of thirty city-state cultures : an investigation / conducted by the Copenhagen Polis Centre ; edited by Mogens Herman Hansen.
Publication
Copenhagen : Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, 2000.

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Additional Authors
  • Hansen, Mogens Herman, 1940-
  • Københavns universitet. Polis centret.
Description
636 p. : ill., maps, plans; 29 cm.
Series Statement
Historisk-filosofiske skrifter, 0023-3307 ; 21
Uniform Title
Historisk-filosofiske skrifter 21.
Alternative Title
Thirty city-state cultures
Subjects
Note
  • A collection of revised papers contributed to a symposium held January 5-9, 1999 at the Copenhagen Polis Centre, with some additional contributions.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Language (note)
  • English with two papers in French and one paper in German.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction : the concepts of city-state and city-state culture / Mogens Herman Hansen -- The ancient world. Les petits Etats mésopotamiens à la fin du 4e et au cours du 3e millénaire / Jean-Jacques Glassner -- The city-state in ancient Western Syria / Ingolf Thuesen -- The Palestinian city-states of the Bronze Age / John Strange -- The old Assyrian city-state / Mogens Trolle Larsen -- The early Phoenician city-states on the Mediterranean : archaeological elements for their description / Hans Georg Niemeyer -- The city-states of the early Neo-Babylonian period / Mogens Trolle Larsen -- The Philistine city-states / John Strange -- The Hellenic Polis / Mogens Herman Hansen -- The Etruscan city-state / Mario Torelli -- The city-states in Latium / Tim J. Cornell -- 'Celtic' oppida / John Collis -- Mecca and Medina : Arab city-states or Arab caravan-cities? / Jørgen BÆk Simonsen --^ Medieval and early modern Europe. Viking Dublin and the city-state concept : parameters and significance of the Hiberno-Norse settlement / Poul Holm -- Novgorod, Kiev and their satellites : the city-state model and the Viking Age polities of European Russia / Neil Price -- The rise and fall of Italian city-states / Stephan R. Epstein -- Imperial and free towns of the Holy Roman Empire : city states in pre-modern Germany? / Peter Johanek -- Riechsstadt, eidgenössischer Ort, städtische Territorialherrschaft : zu den Anfängen der Stadstaaten im Gebiet der heutigen Schweiz ; Summary : the formation of Swiss city-states (13th-15th centuries) / Martina Stercken -- The Dutch Republic's city-state culture (17th-18th centuries) / Maarten Prak -- Asia. The city-state in spring-and-autumn China / Mark Edward Lewis -- Mahajanapada states of early historic India / Dilip Chakrabarti -- Ancient city-states of the Tarim Basin / Nicola di Cosmo --^ City-states and city-state cultures in pre-15th century Southeast Asia / Pierre-Yves Manguin -- Negeri : the culture of Malay-speaking city-states of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Anthony Reid -- A regional explanation of the Tai Müang as a city-state / Richard A. O'Connor -- Africa. Le Mzâb cité-état / Farhat Jaabiri and Bahaiou Yahia -- The Swahili city-state culture / Paul Sinclair and N. Thomas Håkansson -- The Hausa city-states from 1450 to 1804 / Robert Griffeth -- Yoruba as a city-state culture / J.D.Y. Peel -- City-state culture on the Gold Coast : Fante city-states in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Ray A. Kea -- The Kotoko city-states / Mogens Herman Hansen -- The city-states of the Eastern Niger Delta / Kingta Irene Princewill -- Mesoamerica. The city-states of the Maya / Nikolai Grube -- Mixtec city-states and Mixtec city-state culture / Michael D. Lind -- Aztec city-states / Michael E. Smith --^ Conclusion : the impact of city-state cultures on world history / Mogens Herman Hansen.
ISBN
8778761778
LCCN
^^2001319264
OCLC
  • 44698452
  • SCSB-10175016
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library