Ancient states and infrastructural power : Europe, Asia, and America /
While ancient states are often characterized in terms of the powers that they claimed to possess, this book argues that they were in fact fundamentally weak, both in the exercise of force outside of war and in the infrastructural and regulatory powers that such force would, in theory, defend. In Anc...
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| Other Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.,
2017.
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| Series: | Empire and after.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
