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Title:

State power in ancient China and Rome / edited by Walter Scheidel.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xv, 303 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Subject:

State, The--History--To 1500.
Rome--History--Republic, 265-30 B.C.
Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D.
China--History--Han dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.D.
Imperialism--History.

Other Authors:

Scheidel, Walter, 1966- author. author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction / Walter Scheidel -- Kingship and elite formation / Peter Fibiger Bang and Karen Turner -- Toward a comparative understanding of the executive decision-making process in China and Rome / Corey Brennan -- The Han bureaucracy: its origin, structure and development / Dingxin Zhao -- The common denominator: late Roman imperial bureaucracy from a comparative perspective / Peter Eich -- State revenue and expenditure in the Han and Roman empires / Walter Scheidel -- Urban systems in the Han and Roman empires: state power and social control / Carlos Nore©ła -- Public spaces in cities in the Roman and Han empires / Mark Lewis -- Ghosts, gods, and the coming apocalypse: empire and religion in early China and ancient Rome / Michael Puett.

Series:

Oxford studies in early empires

ISBN:

0190202254
9780190202255
0190202246
9780190202248

OCLC:

(OCoLC)887850991

LCCN:

2014032894

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)