Polities
Subtitle: authority, identities, and change
By: Yale H. Ferguson and Richard W. Mansbach.
Contributors: Mansbach, Richard W., 1943-
Series: Studies in international relations; Studies in international relations (Columbia, S.C.)
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Columbia, S.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 495
Subjects: State, The -- History; National state -- History; International relations -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-451) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : new paths to theory; title: The subject is politics; title: Mesopotamia : fission-fusion of the first city polities and empires; title: The sources and limits of central authority in mesopotamia; title: Greece : structural features of a watershed civilization; title: The Polis : triumph and challenge of citizenship; title: Ancient China : overlapping polities in an imperial framework; title: The mandate of heaven : authority in ancient China; title: Mesoamerica : a multitude of polities; title: Mesoamerica and the Spanish conquest : the collision of civilizations; title: Islam : the evolution of a messianic movement; title: The caliphate : the limits of dynastic power; title: Italy after Rome : complexity at the nexus of the ancient and modern worlds; title: Medieval Italy : competing visions of unity and authority; title: The past as prelude.