A comparative study of thirty city-state cultures
Subtitle: an investigation
By: conducted by the Copenhagen Polis Centre ; edited by Mogens Herman Hansen.
Contributors: Hansen, Mogens Herman, 1940-; Københavns universitet. Polis centret.
Series: Historisk-filosofiske skrifter,; 21
Publisher: Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Copenhagen
Language: eng; fre; ger
Number of pages: 636
Subjects: City-states -- Cross-cultural studies.; Cities and towns, Ancient.; Urbanization.; Extinct cities.; Civilization, Ancient.
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
A collection of revised papers contributed to a symposium held January 5-9, 1999 at the Copenhagen Polis Centre, with some additional contributions.
Table of contents: title: INTRODUCTION: The concepts of city-state and city-state culture / Mogens Herman Hansen; title: THE ANCIENT WORLD: Les petits Etats mésopotamiens à la fin du 4e et au cours du 3e millénaire / Jean-Jacques Glassner; title: The city-state in ancient Western Syria / Ingolf Thuesen; title: The Palestinian city-states of the Bronze Age / John Strange; title: The old Assyrian city-state / Mogens Trolle Larsen; title: The early Phoenician city-states on the Mediterranean. Archaeological elements for their description / Hans Georg Niemeyer; title: The city-states of the early Neo-Babylonian period / Mogens Trolle Larsen; title: The Philistine city-states / John Strange; title: The Hellenic Polis / Mogens Herman Hansen; title: The Etruscan city-state / Mario Torelli; title: The city-states in Latium / Tim J. Cornell; title: 'Celtic' oppida / John Collis; title: Mecca and Medina. Arab city-states or Arab caravan-cities? / Jørgen BÆk Simonsen; title: Viking Dublin and the city-state concept. Parameters and significance of the Hiberno-Norse settlement / Poul Holm; title: Novgorod, Kiev and their satellites. The city-state model and the Viking Age polities of European Russia / Neil Price; title: The rise and fall of Italian city-states / Stephan R. Epstein; title: Imperial and free towns of the Holy Roman Empire; title: city states in pre-modern Germany? / Peter Johanek; title: 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; title: The Dutch Republic's city-state culture (17th-18th centuries) / Maarten Prak; title: ASIA: The city-state in spring-and-autumn China / Mark Edward Lewis; title: Mahajanapada states of early historic India / Dilip Chakrabarti; title: Ancient city-states of the Tarin Basin / Nicola di Cosmo; title: City-states and city-state cultures in pre-15th century Southeast Asia / Pierre-Yves Manguin; title: Negeri. The culture of Malay-speaking city-states of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Anthony Reid; title: A regional explanation of the Tai Müang as a city-state / Richard A. O'Connor; title: AFRICA: Le Mzâb cité-état / Farhat Jaabiri and Bahaiou Yahia; title: The Swahili city-state culture / Paul Sinclair and N. Thomas Hk̊ansson; title: The Hausa city-states from 1450 to 1804 / Robert Griffeth; title: Yoruba as a city-state culture / J.D.Y. Peel; title: City-state culture on the Gold Coast : Fante city-states in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Ray A. Kea; title: The Kotoko city-states / Mogens Herman Hansen; title: The city-states of the Eastern Niger Delta / Kingta Irene Princewill; title: MESOAMERICA: The city-states of the Maya / Nikolai Grube; title: Mixtec city-states and Mixtec city-state culture / Michael D. Lind; title: Aztec city-states / Michael E. Smith; title: CONCLUSION: The impact of city-state cultures on world history / Mogens Herman Hansen.