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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes index. |
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"Investigates the transformation of landscapes into culturally constructed and ideologically defined political environments of capital cities. In this spatially inclusive, socially dynamic interpretation, an interdisciplinary group uses a methodology to expose the associations between human-made environments and the natural landscape that accommodate socio-political needs of governmental authority"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Spatial Turn and Political Landscapes of Capital Cities; 1 Akhenaten's Amarna in New Kingdom Egypt: Relations of Landscape and Ideology; 2 "Memorials of the Ability of Them All": Tetrarchic Displays in the Roman Forum's Central Area; 3 The Relational Spiritual Geopolitics of Constantinople, the Capital of the Byzantine Empire; 4 Beyond the Ashes: The Making of Bangkok as the Capital City of Siam; 5 Monumental Perceptions of the Tiwanaku Landscape. |
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6 The Inka Capital Cusco as the Model of an Imperial Cultural Landscape7 Making Landfall: Anchoring Authority in the Public and Private Political Sphere of the Basin of Mexico; 8 Provincial Capital vs. Peasant Capital: A Subaltern Perspective on Urban Rise and Fall from Grace; 9 La Parola al Piccone: Demonstrations of Fascism at the Imperial Fora and the Mausoleum of Augustus; 10 Tehran: A Revolution in Making; Conclusions: Ontological Relations and the Spatial Politics of Capital Cities; List of Contributors; Index. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
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This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
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JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
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Capitals (Cities)
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Capitals (Cities) |
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Cities and towns, Ancient.
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Cities and towns, Ancient. |
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Space -- Political aspects.
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Space. |
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Landscape archaeology -- Political aspects.
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Landscape archaeology. |
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Political anthropology.
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Political anthropology. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Christie, Jessica Joyce, 1956- editor.
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Bogdanović, Jelena, 1973- editor.
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Guzmán, Eulogio, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Political landscapes of capital cities. Boulder : University Press of Colorado, 2016 9781607324683 (DLC) 2015033569 (OCoLC)930875085 |
| ISBN |
9781607324690 (electronic book) |
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1607324695 (electronic book) |
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9781607324683 (electronic book) |
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1607324687 (electronic book) |
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JSTOR purchased |
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