Order, Legitimacy, and Wealth in Ancient States (New Directions in Archaeology) (Paperback)
Short Description for Order, Legitimacy, and Wealth in Ancient States Collection on the impact of wealth and high culture on state development in ancient societies.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 07 November 2012
- Format: Paperback 163 pages
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- Categories: General & World History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Archaeology
- ISBN 13: 9780521776714 ISBN 10: 0521776716
- Sales rank: 1,079,682
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Full description for Order, Legitimacy, and Wealth in Ancient States
Three terms, Order, Legitimacy and Wealth, delineate a new comparative approach to ancient civilizations initially developed by John Baines, Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford, and Norman Yoffee, Professor of Archaeology and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan, in 1992. In an influential paper, they compared and contrasted the nature of social and political power in Egypt and Mesopotamia. This was the first analysis of the impact of wealth and high culture on the development of states. The contributors to the present book apply the classic Baines/Yoffee model to a range of ancient states around the world, providing documentary and archaeological evidence on the production and uses of 'high culture', literature and monumental architecture. There are chapters on Mesoamerica, the Andes, the Indus Valley, the Han Dynasty of China, and Greece during the Roman empire, while others expand on the original Egypt-Mesopotamia comparison.
