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Political theory has undergone a remarkable development in recent years. A systematic study of legitimacy within social science, the book starts as a critique of Weber and examines the link betwen a social-scientific approach and the various philosophical traditions of theorizin…
Political theory has undergone a remarkable development in recent years. A systematic study of legitimacy within social science, the book starts as a critique of Weber and examines the link betwen a social-scientific approach and the various philosophical traditions of theorizin…
This is the third volume of Michael Mann's analytical history of social power, focusing on the interrelated development of capitalism, nation-states and empires.
"Charlemagne never traveled farther east than Italy, but by the mid-tenth century a story had begun to circulate about the friendly alliances that the emperor had forged while visiting Jerusalem and Constantinople. This story gained wide currency throughout the Middle Ages, appe…
Charlemagne never traveled farther east than Italy, but by the mid-tenth century a story had begun to circulate about the friendly alliances that the emperor had forged while visiting Jerusalem and Constantinople. This story gained wide currency throughout the Middle Ages, appea…
In The Double Kingdom under Taharqo, Jeremy Pope examines the strategies used by Taharqo, a Kushite pharaoh of ancient Egypt's Twenty-Fifth Dynasty, to govern Nubia and Egypt together during the seventh century BC
In the nearly 200 years between Antiochos III and Herod I, Judea experienced a rapid shift in forms of rule. Yet how did changes in the representation of rule affect the conception of the Judaic ethnos held by rulers and subjects? This exploration makes apparent the contingencie…
"In the nearly 200 years between Antiochos III and Herod I, Judea experienced a rapid shift in forms of rule. Yet how did changes in the representation of rule affect the conception of the Judaic ethnos held by rulers and subjects? This exploration makes apparent the contingenci…
"Alexander the Great, arguably the most exciting figure from antiquity, waged war as a Homeric hero and lived as one, conquering native peoples and territories on a superhuman scale. From the time he invaded Asia in 334 to his death in 323, he expanded the Macedonian empire from…