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Rulers and Ruled in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China

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Availability:In StockContributor:Hans Beck, Griet VankeerberghenTheme:Chronological Period/Ancient (To 499 A.D.)Publish date:3/10/2022Pages:480
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781108725156ISBN-10:1108725155UPC:9781108725156Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:AncientSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.97 inchesWeight:0.636Product ID:SC5A6VSNNK
Situated on opposite flanks of Eurasia, ancient Mediterranean and Han-Chinese societies had a hazy understanding of each other's existence. But they had no grounded knowledge about one another, nor was there any form of direct interaction. In other words, their historical trajectories were independent. In recent years, however, many similarities between both cultures have been detected, which has energized the field of comparative history. The present volume adds to the debate a creative method of juxtaposing historical societies. Each contribution covers both ancient China and the Mediterranean in an accessible manner. Embarking from the observation that Greek, Roman, and Han-Chinese societies were governed by comparable features, the contributors to this volume explain the dynamic interplay between political rulers and the ruled masses in their culture specific manifestation as demos (Greece), populus (Rome) and min (China).
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781108725156ISBN-10:1108725155UPC:9781108725156Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:AncientSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.97 inchesWeight:0.636Product ID:SC5A6VSNNK
Beck, Hans: - Hans Beck is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Münster and Adjunct Professor at McGill University, Montréal. He has published widely in the field of ancient Mediterranean history, including Consuls and Res Publica (edited with Antonio Duplá, Martin Jehne and Francisco Pina Polo, Cambridge, 2011) and Federalism in Greek Antiquity (edited with Peter Funke, Cambridge, 2015). His recent work on localism in the pre-modern world, including Localism and the Ancient Greek City-State (2020), has garnered significant global attention. He has won the Anneliese Maier Award of the German Humboldt Foundation and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is a Co-Director, with Griet Vankeerberghen, of Global Antiquities, a research network dedicated to the study of ancient Greece, Rome, and China.Vankeerberghen, Griet: - Griet Vankeerberghen is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Classical Studies of McGill University, Montréal. She has published on several Western Han texts and their social, political and material contexts, including the Huainanzi, Shiji, and the Four Lost Classics. She co-edited Chang'an 26 BCE: An Augustan Age in China with Michael Nylan (2015). She is currently engaged in a research project on the nobles of Western Han, sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is a Co-Director, with Hans Beck, of Global Antiquities, a research network dedicated to the study of ancient Greece, Rome, and China.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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