Oxford University Press, 2021. — 392 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires). Roman and Local Citizenship in the Long Second Century CE offers a radical new history of Roman citizenship in the long century before Caracalla's universal grant of citizenship in 212 CE. Earlier work portrayed the privileges of citizen status in this period as eroded by its wide diffusion. Building...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 392 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires). Roman and Local Citizenship in the Long Second Century CE offers a radical new history of Roman citizenship in the long century before Caracalla's universal grant of citizenship in 212 CE. Earlier work portrayed the privileges of citizen status in this period as eroded by its wide diffusion. Building...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 392 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires). Roman and Local Citizenship in the Long Second Century CE offers a radical new history of Roman citizenship in the long century before Caracalla's universal grant of citizenship in 212 CE. Earlier work portrayed the privileges of citizen status in this period as eroded by its wide diffusion. Building...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 296 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires). The empires of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean invented cosmopolitan politics. In the first millennia BCE and CE, a succession of territorially extensive states incorporated populations of unprecedented cultural diversity. Cosmopolitanism and Empire traces the development of cultural techniques...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 384 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires). This book raises the case of the world's first nomadic empire, the Xiongnu, as a prime example of the sophisticated developments and powerful influence of nomadic regimes. Launching from a reconceptualization of the social and economic institutions of mobile pastoralists, the collective chapters trace...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 384 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires). This book raises the case of the world's first nomadic empire, the Xiongnu, as a prime example of the sophisticated developments and powerful influence of nomadic regimes. Launching from a reconceptualization of the social and economic institutions of mobile pastoralists, the collective chapters trace...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 400 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires). the world's first known empires took shape in Mesopotamia between the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf, beginning around 2350 Bce. The next 2,500 years witnessed sustained imperial growth, bringing a growing share of humanity under the control of ever-fewer states. Two...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 400 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires). The world's first known empires took shape in Mesopotamia between the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf, beginning around 2350 BCE. The next 2,500 years witnessed sustained imperial growth, bringing a growing share of humanity under the control of ever-fewer states. Two...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. — x, 449 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires). This volume is the result of a memorable collaborative effort. The authors of the chapters met in Vienna four times to discuss topics, presentations, and drafts of papers, in order to arrive at a more differentiated picture of the relationship between late antique and early medieval...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 464 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires). This book deals with the ways empires affect smaller communities like ethnic groups, religious communities and local or peripheral populations. It raises the question how these different types of community were integrated into larger imperial edifices, and in which contexts the dialectic between...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 320 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires). This collection's central thesis is straightforward: long-distance communication plays a key role in the cohesion and stability of early states and in turn, these states invest heavily in long-term communication strategies and networks. As reliable and fast long-distance communication facilitates the...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 320 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires). This collection's central thesis is straightforward: long-distance communication plays a key role in the cohesion and stability of early states and in turn, these states invest heavily in long-term communication strategies and networks. As reliable and fast long-distance communication facilitates the...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires). Trouble in the West provides the first full and continuous account of the Persian-Egyptian War, a conflict that continued for nearly the two-hundred-year duration of the Persian Empire. Despite its status as the largest of all ancient Persian military enterprises- including any aimed at Greece- this conflict...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 328 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires). Two thousand years ago, the Qin/Han and Roman empires were the largest political entities of the ancient world, developing simultaneously yet independently at opposite ends of Eurasia. Although their territories constituted only a small percentage of the global land mass, these two Eurasian polities...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 328 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires) Two thousand years ago, the Qin/Han and Roman empires were the largest political entities of the ancient world, developing simultaneously yet independently at opposite ends of Eurasia. Although their territories constituted only a small percentage of the global land mass, these two Eurasian polities...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 248 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires) In the first study of fiscal sociology in the Roman Republic, James Tan argues that much of Roman politics was defined by changes in the fiscal system. Tan offers a new conception of the Roman Republic by showing that imperial profits freed the elite from dependence on citizen taxes. Rome's wars...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 248 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires). Rome's wars delivered great wealth to the conquerors, but how did this affect politics and society on the home front? In Power and Public Finance at Rome , James Tan offers the first examination of the Roman Republic from the perspective of fiscal sociology and makes the case that no understanding of...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 430 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires). This work offers a sweeping re-assessment of the Jiankang Empire (3rd-6th centuries CE), known as the Chinese "Southern Dynasties". It shows how, although one of the medieval world's largest empires, Jiankang has been rendered politically invisible by the standard narrative of Chinese nationalist...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 430 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires). This work offers a sweeping re-assessment of the Jiankang Empire (3rd-6th centuries CE), known as the Chinese "Southern Dynasties". It shows how, although one of the medieval world's largest empires, Jiankang has been rendered politically invisible by the standard narrative of Chinese nationalist...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 396 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires). From its origins as a minor nomadic tribe to its status as a major world empire, the rise of the Parthian state in the ancient world is nothing short of remarkable. In their early history, the Parthians benefitted from strong leadership, a flexible and accommodating cultural identity, and innovative...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 396 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires). From its origins as a minor nomadic tribe to its status as a major world empire, the rise of the Parthian state in the ancient world is nothing short of remarkable. In their early history, the Parthians benefitted from strong leadership, a flexible and accommodating cultural identity, and innovative...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 396 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires). From its origins as a minor nomadic tribe to its status as a major world empire, the rise of the Parthian state in the ancient world is nothing short of remarkable. In their early history, the Parthians benefitted from strong leadership, a flexible and accommodating cultural identity, and innovative...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 384 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires). Northern Wei is a study of an Inner Asian people called the Taghbach (Ch. Tuoba), who half a century after collapse of the Han state (206 BCE–220 CE) began the process of building a new kind of empire in East Asia. Though addressing larger historiographical issues, the book’s main purpose is, within...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 384 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires). Northern Wei is a study of an Inner Asian people called the *Taghbach (Ch. Tuoba), who half a century after collapse of the Han state (206 BCE–220 CE) began the process of building a new kind of empire in East Asia. Though addressing larger historiographical issues, the book’s main purpose is, within...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 352 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires). The history of the Persian Empire in the west has been seen/presented largely in terms of Persian-Greek interactions. However, the fact that the Persians mounted ten campaigns against Egypt from the late sixth through the fourth century indicates that the subjugation of Egypt was Persia’s primary...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 421 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires). Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors challenges readers to reconsider China's relations with the rest of Eurasia. Investigating interstate competition and cooperation between the successive Sui and Tang dynasties and Turkic states of Mongolia from 580 to 800, Jonathan Skaff upends the notion...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 421 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires). Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors challenges readers to reconsider China's relations with the rest of Eurasia. Investigating interstate competition and cooperation between the successive Sui and Tang dynasties and Turkic states of Mongolia from 580 to 800, Jonathan Skaff upends the notion...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 248 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires). — ISBN: 978–0–19–935173–2. In the The Confucian-Legalist State, Dingxin Zhao offers a radically new analysis of Chinese imperial history from the eleventh century BCE to the fall of the Qing dynasty. This study first uncovers the factors that explain how, and why, China developed into a bureaucratic...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 248 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires). — ISBN: 978–0–19–935173–2. In the The Confucian-Legalist State, Dingxin Zhao offers a radically new analysis of Chinese imperial history from the eleventh century BCE to the fall of the Qing dynasty. This study first uncovers the factors that explain how, and why, China developed into a bureaucratic...
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