From antiquity until the nineteenth century, there have been two types
of state: macro-states, each dotted with a number of cities, and
regions broken up into city-states, each consisting of an urban centre
and its hinterland. A region settled with interacting city-states
constituted a city-state culture and Polis opens with a description of
the concepts of city, state, city-state, and city-state culture, and a
survey of the 37 city-state cultures so far identified. Mogens Herman
Hansen provides a thoroughly accessible introduction to the polis
(plural: poleis), or ancient Greek city-state, which represents by far
the largest of all city-state cultures. He addresses such topics as
the emergence of the polis, its size and population, and its political
organization, ranging from famous poleis such as Athens and Sparta
through more than 1,000 known examples.
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ISBN
9780191526039
Publisert
2020
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1. utgave
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OUP Oxford
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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