1. Rome and China: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires (Oxford Studies in Early Empires)
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Description: ISBN10: 0195336909, ISBN13: 9780195336900, [publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press] Hardcover XIII, 240 p., maps. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Somewhat rubbed, otherwise very good and clean. Includes review of the book and German texts about the topic. / Etwas berieben, sonst sehr gut und sauber. Beiliegend Rezension zum Buch und Texte zum Thema auf Deutsch. - Contents: Contributors -- Chronology -- Introduction by Walter Scheidel -- 1. From the "Great Convergence" to the "First Great Divergence": Roman and Qin-Han State Formation and Its Aftermath by Walter Scheidel -- 2. War, State Formation, and the Evolution of Military Institutions in Ancient China and Rome by Nathan Rosenstein -- 3. Law and Punishment in the Formation of Empire by Karen Turner -- 4. Eunuchs, Women, and Imperial Courts by Maria H. Dettenhofer -- 5. Commanding and Consuming the World: Empire, Tribute, and Trade in Roman and Chinese History by Peter Fibiger Bang -- 6. Gift Circulation and Charity in the Han and Roman Empires by Mark Edward Lewis -- 7. The Monetary Systems of the Han and Roman Empires by Walter Scheidel. - Two thousand years ago, up to one-half of the human species was contained within two political systems, the Roman Empire in western Eurasia (centered on the Mediterranean Sea) and the Han Empire in eastern Eurasia (centered on the great North China Plain). Both empires were broadly comparable in terms of size and population, and even largely coextensive in chronological terms (221 BCE to 220 CE for the Qin/Han Empire, c. 200 BCE to 395 CE for the unified Roman Empire). At the most basic level of resolution, the circumstances of their creation are not very different. In the East, the Shang and Western Zhou periods created a shared cultural framework for the Warring States, with the gradual consolidation of numerous small polities into a handful of large kingdoms that were finally united by the westernmost marcher state of Qin. In the Mediterranean, we can observe comparable political fragmentation and gradual expansion of a unifying civilization, Greek in this case, followed by the gradual formation of a handful of major competing states (the Hellenistic kingdoms in the east, Rome-Italy, Syracuse, and Carthage in the west), and likewise eventual unification by the westernmost marcher state, the Roman-led Italian confederation. Subsequent destabilization occurred again in strikingly similar ways: both empires came to be divided into two halves, one that contained the original core but was more exposed to the main barbarian periphery (the west in the Roman case, the north in China), and a traditionalist half in the east (Rome) and south (China). These processes of initial convergence and subsequent divergence in Eurasian state formation have never been the objects of systematic comparative analysis. This volume, which brings together experts in the history of the ancient Mediterranean and early China, makes a first step in this direction by presenting a series of comparative case studies on clearly defined aspects of state formation in early eastern and western Eurasia, focusing on the process of initial developmental convergence. It includes a general introduction that makes the case for a comparative approach, a broad sketch of the character of state formation in western and eastern Eurasia during the final millennium of antiquity, and six thematically connected case studies of particularly salient aspects of this process. - Walter ScheidelIs Professor of Classics and, by courtesy, History at Stanford University. ISBN 9780195336900 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 518 Original cloth with dust jacket. [Berlin, Germany] [Publication Year: 2009]  

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Description: ISBN10: 0195336909, ISBN13: 9780195336900, [publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press] Hardcover XIII, 240 p., maps. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Somewhat rubbed, otherwise very good and clean. Includes review of the book and German texts about the topic. / Etwas berieben, sonst sehr gut und sauber. Beiliegend Rezension zum Buch und Texte zum Thema auf Deutsch. - Contents: Contributors -- Chronology -- Introduction by Walter Scheidel -- 1. From the "Great Convergence" to the "First Great Divergence": Roman and Qin-Han State Formation and Its Aftermath by Walter Scheidel -- 2. War, State Formation, and the Evolution of Military Institutions in Ancient China and Rome by Nathan Rosenstein -- 3. Law and Punishment in the Formation of Empire by Karen Turner -- 4. Eunuchs, Women, and Imperial Courts by Maria H. Dettenhofer -- 5. Commanding and Consuming the World: Empire, Tribute, and Trade in Roman and Chinese History by Peter Fibiger Bang -- 6. Gift Circulation and Charity in the Han and Roman Empires by Mark Edward Lewis -- 7. The Monetary Systems of the Han and Roman Empires by Walter Scheidel. - Two thousand years ago, up to one-half of the human species was contained within two political systems, the Roman Empire in western Eurasia (centered on the Mediterranean Sea) and the Han Empire in eastern Eurasia (centered on the great North China Plain). Both empires were broadly comparable in terms of size and population, and even largely coextensive in chronological terms (221 BCE to 220 CE for the Qin/Han Empire, c. 200 BCE to 395 CE for the unified Roman Empire). At the most basic level of resolution, the circumstances of their creation are not very different. In the East, the Shang and Western Zhou periods created a shared cultural framework for the Warring States, with the gradual consolidation of numerous small polities into a handful of large kingdoms that were finally united by the westernmost marcher state of Qin. In the Mediterranean, we can observe comparable political fragmentation and gradual expansion of a unifying civilization, Greek in this case, followed by the gradual formation of a handful of major competing states (the Hellenistic kingdoms in the east, Rome-Italy, Syracuse, and Carthage in the west), and likewise eventual unification by the westernmost marcher state, the Roman-led Italian confederation. Subsequent destabilization occurred again in strikingly similar ways: both empires came to be divided into two halves, one that contained the original core but was more exposed to the main barbarian periphery (the west in the Roman case, the north in China), and a traditionalist half in the east (Rome) and south (China). These processes of initial convergence and subsequent divergence in Eurasian state formation have never been the objects of systematic comparative analysis. This volume, which brings together experts in the history of the ancient Mediterranean and early China, makes a first step in this direction by presenting a series of comparative case studies on clearly defined aspects of state formation in early eastern and western Eurasia, focusing on the process of initial developmental convergence. It includes a general introduction that makes the case for a comparative approach, a broad sketch of the character of state formation in western and eastern Eurasia during the final millennium of antiquity, and six thematically connected case studies of particularly salient aspects of this process. - Walter ScheidelIs Professor of Classics and, by courtesy, History at Stanford University. ISBN 9780195336900 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 518 Original cloth with dust jacket. [Berlin, Germany] [Publication Year: 2009]  

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