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Political Landscapes of Capital Cities edited by Jessica Joyce Christie, Jelena Bogdanović, and Eulogio Guzmon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Christie, Jessica Joyce, Editor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political anthropology.
- Landscape archaeology--Political aspects.
- Landscape archaeology.
- Space--Political aspects.
- Space.
- Cities and towns, Ancient.
- Capitals (Cities).
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (411 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, CO University Press of Colorado 2016
- Boulder : University Press of Colorado, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Investigates the transformation of landscapes into culturally constructed and ideologically defined political environments of capital cities. In this spatially inclusive, socially dynamic interpretation, an interdisciplinary group uses a methodology to expose the associations between human-made environments and the natural landscape that accommodate socio-political needs of governmental authority"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- The Spatial Turn and Political Landscapes of Capital Cities
- Akhenaten's Amarna in New Kingdom Egypt
- "Memorials of the Ability of Them All"
- The Relational Spiritual Geopolitics of Constantinople, the Capital of the Byzantine Empire
- Beyond the Ashes
- Monumental Perceptions of the Tiwanaku Landscape
- The Inka Capital Cusco as the Model of an Imperial Cultural Landscape
- Making Landfall
- Provincial Capital vs. Peasant Capital
- La Parola al Piccone
- Tehran
- Ontological Relations and the Spatial Politics of Capital Cities
- Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781607324690
- 1607324695
- OCLC:
- 953695540
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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