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Xiongnu - The World'S First Nomadic Empire

~~117,61€~~ 105,85€ 10% OFF

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 This book raises the case of the world's first nomadic empire, the Xiongnu, as a prime example of the sophisticated developments and powerful influence of nomadic regimes. Launching from a reconceptualization of the social and economic institutions of mobile pastoralists, Bryan K. Miller traces the course of the Xiongnu Empire from before its initial rise to after its eventual fall.
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Xiongnu - The World''S First Nomadic Empire

by Bryan K. Miller

~~80,81€~~ 72,73€ 10% OFF

 This book raises the case of the world's first nomadic empire, the Xiongnu, as a prime example of the sophisticated developments and powerful influence of nomadic regimes. Launching from a reconceptualization of the social and economic institutions of mobile pastoralists, Bryan K. Miller traces the course of the Xiongnu Empire from before its initial rise to after its eventual fall.
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Xiongnu - The World''S First Nomadic Empire

by Bryan K. Miller

~~80,81€~~ 72,73€ 10% OFF

 This book raises the case of the world's first nomadic empire, the Xiongnu, as a prime example of the sophisticated developments and powerful influence of nomadic regimes. Launching from a reconceptualization of the social and economic institutions of mobile pastoralists, Bryan K. Miller traces the course of the Xiongnu Empire from before its initial rise to after its eventual fall.
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Northern Wei (386-534) - A New Form Of Empire In East Asia

by Scott Pearce

72,86€ + 10% CARD

 An innovative contribution to East Asian and Chinese history of the medieval period, Northern Wei (386-534) brings to a new level the study of the little-known Northern Wei dynasty (386-534). Emerging from collapse of the Han empire, the founders of Northern Wei had come south from the grasslands of Inner Asia to conquer the rich farmlands of the Yellow River plains. With complex interactions of Chinese and Inner Asians, which evolved over centuries,Northern Wei laid the foundation for a new model for empire in East Asia, which in the seventh century would lead to the Tang.
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Northern Wei (386-534) - A New Form Of Empire In East Asia

by Scott Pearce

72,86€ + 10% CARD

 An innovative contribution to East Asian and Chinese history of the medieval period, Northern Wei (386-534) brings to a new level the study of the little-known Northern Wei dynasty (386-534). Emerging from collapse of the Han empire, the founders of Northern Wei had come south from the grasslands of Inner Asia to conquer the rich farmlands of the Yellow River plains. With complex interactions of Chinese and Inner Asians, which evolved over centuries,Northern Wei laid the foundation for a new model for empire in East Asia, which in the seventh century would lead to the Tang.
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Northern Wei (386-534) - A New Form Of Empire In East Asia

by Scott (Professor, Professor, Western Washington University) Pearce

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 An innovative contribution to East Asian and Chinese history of the medieval period, Northern Wei (386-534) brings to a new level the study of the little-known Northern Wei dynasty (386-534). Emerging from collapse of the Han empire, the founders of Northern Wei had come south from the grasslands of Inner Asia to conquer the rich farmlands of the Yellow River plains. With complex interactions of Chinese and Inner Asians, which evolved over centuries,Northern Wei laid the foundation for a new model for empire in East Asia, which in the seventh century would lead to the Tang.
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Roman And Local Citizenship In The Long Second Century Ce

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 Imperial and Local Citizenship in the Long Second Century CE explores the significance of Roman citizenship in the long century before Caracalla's universal grant of citizenship in 212 CE. From this emerges a new portrait of the early Roman empire: an exclusive regime of citizenship persisted, in a context of remarkable political and cultural integration.
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Roman And Local Citizenship In The Long Second Century Ce

92,74€ + 10% CARD

 Imperial and Local Citizenship in the Long Second Century CE explores the significance of Roman citizenship in the long century before Caracalla's universal grant of citizenship in 212 CE. From this emerges a new portrait of the early Roman empire: an exclusive regime of citizenship persisted, in a context of remarkable political and cultural integration.
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Jiankang Empire In Chinese And World History

by Andrew Chittick

62,26€ + 10% CARD

 This work offers a sweeping re-assessment of the Jiankang Empire (3rd-6th centuries CE), known as the Chinese "Southern Dynasties." It shows how, although one of the medieval world''s largest empires, Jiankang has been rendered politically invisible by the standard narrative of Chinese nationalist history, and proposes a new framework and terminology for writing about medieval East Asia. The book pays particular attention to the problem of ethnic identification, rejecting the idea of "ethnic Chinese," and delineating several other, more useful ethnographic categories, using case studies in agriculture/foodways and vernacular languages. The most important, the Wuren of the lower Yangzi region, were believed to be inherently different from the peoples of the Central Plains, and the rest of the book addresses the extent of their ethnogenesis in the medieval era. It assesses the political culture of the Jiankang Empire, emphasizing military strategy, institutional cultures, and political economy, showing how it differed from Central Plains-based empires, while having significant similarities to Southeast Asian regimes. It then explores how the Jiankang monarchs deployed three distinct repertoires of political legitimation (vernacular, Sinitic universalist, and Buddhist), arguing that the Sinitic repertoire was largely eclipsed in the sixth century, rendering the regime yet more similar to neighboring South Seas states. The conclusion points out how the research re-orients our understanding of acculturation and ethnic identification in medieval East Asia, generates new insights into the Tang-Song transition period, and offers new avenues of comparison with Southeast Asian and medieval European history.
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Jiankang Empire In Chinese And World History

by Andrew Chittick

62,26€ + 10% CARD

 This work offers a sweeping re-assessment of the Jiankang Empire (3rd-6th centuries CE), known as the Chinese "Southern Dynasties." It shows how, although one of the medieval world''s largest empires, Jiankang has been rendered politically invisible by the standard narrative of Chinese nationalist history, and proposes a new framework and terminology for writing about medieval East Asia. The book pays particular attention to the problem of ethnic identification, rejecting the idea of "ethnic Chinese," and delineating several other, more useful ethnographic categories, using case studies in agriculture/foodways and vernacular languages. The most important, the Wuren of the lower Yangzi region, were believed to be inherently different from the peoples of the Central Plains, and the rest of the book addresses the extent of their ethnogenesis in the medieval era. It assesses the political culture of the Jiankang Empire, emphasizing military strategy, institutional cultures, and political economy, showing how it differed from Central Plains-based empires, while having significant similarities to Southeast Asian regimes. It then explores how the Jiankang monarchs deployed three distinct repertoires of political legitimation (vernacular, Sinitic universalist, and Buddhist), arguing that the Sinitic repertoire was largely eclipsed in the sixth century, rendering the regime yet more similar to neighboring South Seas states. The conclusion points out how the research re-orients our understanding of acculturation and ethnic identification in medieval East Asia, generates new insights into the Tang-Song transition period, and offers new avenues of comparison with Southeast Asian and medieval European history.
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Reign Of Arrows - The Rise Of The Parthian Empire In The Hellenistic Middle East

by Nikolaus Leo Overtoom

27,81€ + 10% CARD

 From minor nomadic tribe to major world empire, the story of the Parthians' success in the ancient world is nothing short of remarkable. Reign of Arrows provides the first comprehensive study dedicated entirely to early Parthian history and the first comprehensive effort to evaluate early Parthian political history since 1938.
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Empires And Communities In The Post-Roman And Islamic World, C. 400-1000 Ce

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 This book deals with the ways empires affect smaller communities and vice versa. It raises the question how these different types of community were integrated into larger imperial structures, and how tensions between local and central interests affected the development of the post-Roman West, Byzantium and the early Islamic world.
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Power And Public Finance At Rome, 264-49 Bce

by James Tan

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 In the first study of fiscal sociology in the Roman Republic, James Tan argues that much of Roman politics was defined by changes in the fiscal system. Tan offers a new conception of the Roman Republic by showing that imperial profits freed the elite from dependence on citizen taxes.
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Power And Public Finance At Rome, 264-49 Bce

by James Tan

104,66€ + 10% CARD

 In the first study of fiscal sociology in the Roman Republic, James Tan argues that much of Roman politics was defined by changes in the fiscal system. Tan offers a new conception of the Roman Republic by showing that imperial profits freed the elite from dependence on citizen taxes.
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Cosmopolitanism And Empire - Universal Rulers, Local Elites, And Cultural Integration In The Ancient Near East And Mediterranean

by John Weisweiler, Myles Lavan e Richard E. Payne

90,09€ + 10% CARD

 Cosmopolitanism and Empire traces the development of cosmopolitan cultural techniques through which ancient empires managed difference in order to establish regimes of domination.
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Confucian-Legalist State: A New Theory Of Chinese History - A New Theory Of Chinese History

by Dingxin Zhao

43,71€ + 10% CARD

 The Confucian-Legalist State proposes a new theory of social change and, in doing so, analyzes the patterns of Chinese history, such as the rise and persistence of a unified empire, the continuous domination of Confucianism, and China's inability to develop industrial capitalism without Western imperialism.
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Confucian-Legalist State: A New Theory Of Chinese History - A New Theory Of Chinese History

by Dingxin Zhao

43,71€ + 10% CARD

 The Confucian-Legalist State proposes a new theory of social change and, in doing so, analyzes the patterns of Chinese history, such as the rise and persistence of a unified empire, the continuous domination of Confucianism, and China's inability to develop industrial capitalism without Western imperialism.
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State Power In Ancient China And Rome

by Walter Scheidel

31,79€ + 10% CARD

 In a series of pioneering comparative studies, leading historians break new ground by exploring government and power relations in the two largest empires of the ancient world. They shed new light on key issues such as elite formation, the rise of bureaucracies, and the determinants of urban development.
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State Correspondence In The Ancient World - From New Kingdom Egypt To The Roman Empire

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 State Correspondence in the Ancient World introduces the reader to the state correspondences of centralized states and empires of the Mediterranean and the Middle East from the 15th century BC to the 6th century AD, and analyses their role in ensuring the stability of these geographically extensive state systems.
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Sui-Tang China And Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors - Culture, Power, And Connections, 580-800

by Jonathan Karam Skaff

47,69€ + 10% CARD

 A comparative history that reconsiders China's relations with the rest of Eurasia, Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors challenges the notion that inhabitants of medieval China and Mongolia were irreconcilably different from each other.
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Rome And China - Comparative Perspectives On Ancient World Empires

by Walter Scheidel

41,06€ + 10% CARD

 This volume brings together experts in the history of the ancient Mediterranean and early China and presents a series of comparative case studies on clearly defined aspects of state formation in early eastern and western Eurasia, focusing on the process of initial developmental convergence.
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Sui-Tang China And Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors - Culture, Power, And Connections, 580-800

by Jonathan Karam Skaff

47,69€ + 10% CARD

 A comparative history that reconsiders China's relations with the rest of Eurasia, Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors challenges the notion that inhabitants of medieval China and Mongolia were irreconcilably different from each other.
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Dynamics Of Ancient Empires - State Power From Assyria To Byzantium

by Ian Morris e Walter Scheidel

43,71€ + 10% CARD

 Greek and Roman empires have largely been studied in isolation from those of the Near East. This volume is designed to encourage dialogue across disciplinary boundaries by examining the fundamental features of the successive and partly overlapping imperial states that dominated much of the Near East and the Mediterranean in the first millennia BCE and CE.
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Dynamics Of Ancient Empires - State Power From Assyria To Byzantium

by Ian Morris e Walter Scheidel

43,71€ + 10% CARD

 Greek and Roman empires have largely been studied in isolation from those of the Near East. This volume is designed to encourage dialogue across disciplinary boundaries by examining the fundamental features of the successive and partly overlapping imperial states that dominated much of the Near East and the Mediterranean in the first millennia BCE and CE.
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