State power in ancient China and Rome /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Scheidel, Walter, 1966- (Author, Editor)
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Subjects:	State, The > History > To 1500. Rome > History > Republic, 265-30 B.C. Rome > History > Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D. China > History > Han dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.D. Imperialism > History. To 1500 Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction / Walter Scheidel
Kingship and elite formation / Peter Fibiger Bang and Karen Turner
Toward a comparative understanding of the executive decision-making process in China and Rome / Corey Brennan
The Han bureaucracy: its origin, structure and development / Dingxin Zhao
The common denominator: late Roman imperial bureaucracy from a comparative perspective / Peter Eich
State revenue and expenditure in the Han and Roman empires / Walter Scheidel
Urban systems in the Han and Roman empires: state power and social control / Carlos Noreña
Public spaces in cities in the Roman and Han empires / Mark Lewis
Ghosts, gods, and the coming apocalypse: empire and religion in early China and ancient Rome / Michael Puett.