Sovereign city the city-state through history
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 geopol...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Reaktion
2004.
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| Colección: | Globalities.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009426405306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
