ORDER, LEGITIMACY, AND WEALTH IN ANCIENT STATES by Richards, Janet ISBN 0521772125
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[edit] ORDER, LEGITIMACY, AND WEALTH IN ANCIENT STATES
Collection on the impact of wealth and high culture on state development in ancient societies.
Three terms, Order, Legitimacy and Wealth, delineate a new comparative approach to ancient civilizations initially developed by John Baines, Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford, and Norman Yoffee, Professor of Archaeology and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan, in 1992. In an influential paper, they compared and contrasted the nature of social and political power in Egypt and Mesopotamia. This was the first analysis of the impact of wealth and high culture on the development of states. The contributors to the pr esent book apply the classic Baines/Yoffee model to a range of ancient states around the world, providing documentary and archaeological evidence on the production and uses of 'high culture', literature and monumental architecture. There are chapters on Mesoamerica, the Andes, the Indus Valley, the Han Dynasty of China, and Greece during the Roman empire, while others expand on the original Egypt-Mesopotamia comparison.
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[edit] Title
ORDER, LEGITIMACY, AND WEALTH IN ANCIENT STATES
[edit] Author
Richards, Janet
[edit] ISBN
0521772125
[edit] Published
07/12/2000
[edit] Publisher
Cambridge University Press
[edit] Binding
hardback
[edit] Retail Price
45 (GBP)
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44.1 (GBP)
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