Название: Ancient States and Infrastructural Power: Europe, Asia, and America (Empire and After)
Автор: Clifford Ando, Seth Richardson
Издательство: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812249313
Год: 2017
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 316
Размер: 3,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

While ancient states are often characterized in terms of the powers that they claimed to possess, the contributors to this book argue that they were in fact fundamentally weak, both in the exercise of force outside of war and in the infrastructural and regulatory powers that such force would, in theory, defend.