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Record Nr.

UNINA9910306641403321

Autore

Christie Jessica Joyce

Titolo

Political Landscapes of Capital Cities / edited by Jessica Joyce Christie, Jelena Bogdanović, and Eulogio Guzmon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, CO, : University Press of Colorado, 2016

Boulder : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-60732-469-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (411 pages)

Disciplina

306.209173/2

Soggetti

Political anthropology

Landscape archaeology - Political aspects

Space - Political aspects

Cities and towns, Ancient

Capitals (Cities)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Investigates the transformation of landscapes into culturally constructed and ideologically defined political environments of capital cities. In this spatially inclusive, socially dynamic interpretation, an interdisciplinary group uses a methodology to expose the associations between human-made environments and the natural landscape that accommodate socio-political needs of governmental authority"--