Empires
Subtitle: perspectives from archaeology and history
By: edited by Susan E. Alcock ... [et al.]
Contributors: Alcock, Susan E
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 523
Subjects: Imperialism -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 448-507) and index
Table of contents: title: The shadow empires: imperial state formation along the Chinese-Nomad frontier / Thomas J. Barfield; title: Written on water: designs and dynamics in the Portuguese Estado da Índia / Sanjay Subrahmanyam; title: The Wari empire of Middle Horizon Peru: the epistemological challenge of documenting an empire without documentary evidence / Katharina Schreiber; title: The Achaemenid Persian empire (c. 550-c. 330 BCE): continuities, adaptations, transformations / Amélie Kuhrt; title: The Aztec Empire and the Mesoamerican world system / Michael E. Smith; title: On the edge of empire: form and substance in the Satavahana dynasty / Carla M. Sinopoli; title: Dynamics of imperial adjustment in Spanish America: ideology and social integration / Kathleen Deagan; title: Politics, resources, and blood in the Inka Empire / Terence N. D'Altroy; title: Egypt and Nubia / Robert Morkot; title: Coercion, resistance, and hierarchy: local processes and imperial strategies in the Vijayanagara Empire / Kathleen D. Morrison; title: Aztec hearts and minds: religion and the state in the Aztec empire / Elizabeth M. Brumfiel; title: Inventing empire in ancient Rome / Greg Woolf; title: The reconfiguration of memory in the eastern Roman empire / Susan E. Alcock; title: Cosmos, central authority, and communities in the early Chinese empire / Robin D.S. Yates; title: The fall of the Assyrian empire: ancient and modern interpretations / Mario Liverani; title: The Carolingian empire: Rome reborn? / John Moreland; title: Cuzco, another Rome? / Sabine MacCormack