Empires : perspectives from archaeology and history / edited by Susan E. Alcock ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alcock, Susan E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imperialism--History.

Imperialism.

History.

Physical Description:

xxii, 523 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Contents:

The shadow empires: imperial state formation along the Chinese-Nomad frontier / Thomas J. Barfield

Written on water: designs and dynamics in the Portuguese Estado da Índia / Sanjay Subrahmanyam

The Wari empire of Middle Horizon Peru: the epistemological challenge of documenting an empire without documentary evidence / Katharina Schreiber

The Achaemenid Persian empire (c. 550-c. 330 BCE): continuities, adaptations, transformations / Amélie Kuhrt

The Aztec Empire and the Mesoamerican world system / Michael E. Smith

On the edge of empire: form and substance in the Satavahana dynasty / Carla M. Sinopoli

Dynamics of imperial adjustment in Spanish America: ideology and social integration / Kathleen Deagan

Politics, resources, and blood in the Inka Empire / Terence N. D'Altroy

Egypt and Nubia / Robert Morkot

Coercion, resistance, and hierarchy: local processes and imperial strategies in the Vijayanagara Empire / Kathleen D. Morrison

Aztec hearts and minds: religion and the state in the Aztec empire / Elizabeth M. Brumfiel

Inventing empire in ancient Rome / Greg Woolf

The reconfiguration of memory in the eastern Roman empire / Susan E. Alcock

Cosmos, central authority, and communities in the early Chinese empire / Robin D.S. Yates

The fall of the Assyrian empire: ancient and modern interpretations / Mario Liverani

The Carolingian empire: Rome reborn? / John Moreland

Cuzco, another Rome? / Sabine MacCormack.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 448-507) and index.

ISBN:

0521770203

OCLC:

44794918