The political landscape : constellations of authority in early complex polities /
How do landscapes--defined in the broadest sense to incorporate the physical contours of the built environment, the aesthetics of form, and the imaginative reflections of spatial representations--contribute to the making of politics? Shifting through the archaeological, epigraphic, and artistic rema...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2003.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=108556 |
Table of Contents:
- Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Surveying the Political Landscape; 1 Sublimated Spaces; 2 Archaeologies of Political Authority; 3 Geopolitics; 4 Polities; 5 Regimes; 6 Institutions; Conclusion: Toward a Cartography of Political Landscapes; References Cited; Index.