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Author Parker, Geoffrey, 1933-

Title Sovereign city : the city-state through history / Geoffrey Parker.

Publication Info. London : Reaktion, 2004.

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 Moore Stacks  JC352 .P37 2004    Available  ---
Description 253 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Series Globalities
Globalities.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-239) and index.
Contents Nation, empire, and city : a geopolitical typology of states -- The birth of the city-state -- The ancient Greek polis -- The Hellenistic foundations -- No mean city : Rome from urbs to imperium -- Serenissma : Venice and the city-states of the Adriatic -- Bishops, Dukes, and republics : the city-states of Renaissance Italy -- Princes, Bishops, and republics : cities and city-states in Russia -- The German Hanse -- The comunidades of Castile -- City, province, and nation in the Netherlands -- Third Rome versus city republics : Moscow, Novgorod, and the Baltic -- The fall and rise of the Hanse cities -- The globalization of the city-state -- Epilogue : the ideal and the reality.
Subject City-states -- History.
City-states.
History.
ISBN 1861892195
9781861892195