ISBN10: 1861892195, ISBN13: 9781861892195, [publisher: London: Reaktion Books] Hardcover 253 p.: Ill., Maps. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag berieben, minimale Randläsuren, sonst sehr gut und sauber / dust jacket rubbed, minimal edgewear, otherwise very good and clean. - The rise of the city-state began more than three thousand years ago under the Philistines on the eastern seaboard of the Mediterranean. Their successors - Tyre, Carthage and other coastal trading cities established by the Phoenicians - were in turn eclipsed by the Greek polis, which Plato and Aristotle considered the perfect type of state, and the Roman example of a city-state as imperial capital. Geoffrey Parker examines the city-state as a geopolitical form, and determines its distinctive place within a range of types of state. Sovereign City is a richly detailed account of its changing role, tracing the evolution of the city as political entity through to the twenty-first century. The author's wide-ranging account includes the political role of the city in the early Islamic world, assessing the extent to which the term city-state is applicable there. Following the revival of the European city-state in late medieval and Renaissance Ita ...
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ISBN10: 1861892195, ISBN13: 9781861892195, [publisher: London: Reaktion Books] Hardcover 253 p.: Ill., Maps. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag berieben, minimale Randläsuren, sonst sehr gut und sauber / dust jacket rubbed, minimal edgewear, otherwise very good and clean. - The rise of the city-state began more than three thousand years ago under the Philistines on the eastern seaboard of the Mediterranean. Their successors - Tyre, Carthage and other coastal trading cities established by the Phoenicians - were in turn eclipsed by the Greek polis, which Plato and Aristotle considered the perfect type of state, and the Roman example of a city-state as imperial capital. Geoffrey Parker examines the city-state as a geopolitical form, and determines its distinctive place within a range of types of state. Sovereign City is a richly detailed account of its changing role, tracing the evolution of the city as political entity through to the twenty-first century. The author's wide-ranging account includes the political role of the city in the early Islamic world, assessing the extent to which the term city-state is applicable there. Following the revival of the European city-state in late medieval and Renaissance Ita ...
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