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Conceiving the Empire: China and Rome Compared

By Fritz-Heiner Mutschler , Achim Mittag

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2009
ISBN
0199214646, 9780199214648
LCC
DS748.13 .C66 2008
Open Library ID
OL23236024M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7288785 bytes)
Pages
512\502
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Исторические дисциплины;Всемирная история;История

Description

The essays in Conceiving the Empire explore the mental images, ideas, and symbolical representations of `empire' which developed in the two most powerful political entities of antiquity: China and Rome. While the central focus is on historiography, other related fields are also explored: geography and cartography, epigraphy, art and architecture, and, more generally, political thought and the history of ideas. Written by a collaborative team of experts in Sinology and Classical Studies, the volume focuses the attention of the emerging discipline of East-West cross-cultural studies on an essential feature of the ancient Mediterranean and Chinese worlds: the emergence of `empire' and the enduring influence of the `imperial' order.

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