Sovereign city : the city-state through history / / Geoffrey Parker
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| Autore: |
Parker Geoffrey <1933->
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| Titolo: |
Sovereign city : the city-state through history / / Geoffrey Parker
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| Pubblicazione: | London, : Reaktion, 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 321.06 |
| Soggetto topico: | City-states - History |
| Cites-Etats - Histoire | |
| Stadstaten | |
| Classificazione: | 15.50 |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-239) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Nation, empire, and city : a geopolitical typology of states -- The birth of the city-state -- The ancient Greek polis -- The Hellenistic foundations -- No mean city : Rome from urbs to imperium -- Serenissma : Venice and the city-states of the Adriatic -- Bishops, Dukes, and republics : the city-states of Renaissance Italy -- Princes, Bishops, and republics : cities and city-states in Russia -- The German Hanse -- The comunidades of Castile -- City, province, and nation in the Netherlands -- Third Rome versus city republics : Moscow, Novgorod, and the Baltic -- The fall and rise of the Hanse cities -- The globalization of the city-state -- Epilogue : the ideal and the reality. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The city has had a rich and tumultuous history, evolving from a powerful political entity in ancient times to its modern role as a local hub of tourism and commerce. Sovereign City examines the nature of the city's ever-changing status, as Geoffrey Parker investigates the city-state as a geopolitical form and explores its distinctive niche within different types of states. This probing work analyzes the various forms of city-states throughout world history, from the Greek polis, which Plato and Aristotle considered the perfect type of state, to the Roman imperial capital, to the political role |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Sovereign city |
| ISBN: | 1-282-26403-6 |
| 9786612264030 | |
| 1-86189-459-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910345141403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Globalities.