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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- I Rome and Her Cities - The Polycentric Empire -- The Dynamics of Dual-level Governance in the Roman Empire, First-Third Centuries CE: Incremental Permeation and Occasional Intrusions of Roman Normativity in Local Life -- The Actors of the Roman Imperial System and Their Mobility: Personal Relationships and Official Communication in the Early Empire -- Bilateral Relations, Federal Organisations, and Peer-Polity Interaction Within the Provinces of the Roman Empire -- The Self-presentation of the Greek Cities in Roman Imperial Asia Minor -- II Intersections of Polycentricity - The Medieval Towns -- Performative Self-representation of City Governments -- Securing Troops and Organising War by and between Communal States in the Swiss Confederation, 1350-1550 -- Political Governance and 'Civil Concord' in Venice: The Experience of the Humanist and Ambassador Ermolao Barbaro (1454-1492) -- III The Polycentric Age - Early Modern Towns and the Patterns of Power -- Beyond the Town Hall: Sites of Political Representation in Early Modern Europe -- Polycentric Diplomacy? Actors and Levels of Foreign Policy in the Hanseatic Cities (Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries) -- Cities, Princes, and the Politics of Alliance in the Early Modern Holy Roman Empire -- The Composite City: Cities, Power Elites, and States in Early Modern European History -- IV The Contemporary City - Polycentric Disorder? -- Economic Boom, Environmental Crisis, and Polycentric Governance in a Transnational Perspective: Cities and States in Struggle along the Upper Rhine in the Late Nineteenth and the Late Twentieth Century -- "As Easy as Turning on the Tap": Experiences of Water Usage in the City, 1918-1939 -- Sister Cities and Urban Diplomacy Today -- List of Contributors -- Index Nominum -- Index Rerum
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