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Geoffrey Parker

Sovereign City

The City-State Ancient and Modern

352 pages, 20 halftones  5_1/4 x 9  © 2004
Series: Reaktion Books-Globalities

Cloth $39.00

ISBN: 9781861892195   Published March 2005
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1. Nation, Empire and City: A Geopolitical Typology of States
2. The Birth of the City-State
3. The Ancient Greek Polis
4. The Hellenistic Foundations
5. No Mean City: Rome from Urbs to Imperium
6. Serenissima: Venice and the City-States of the Adriatic
7. Bishops, Dukes and Republics: The City-States of Renaissance Italy
8. Princes, Bishops and Republics: Cities and City-States in Russia
9. The German Hanse
10. The Comunidades of Castile
11. City, Province and Nation in the Netherlands
12. Third Rome versus City Republics: Moscow, Novgorod and the Baltic
13. The Fall and Rise of the Hanse Cities
14. The Globalization of the City-State
Epilogue: The Ideal and the Reality
References
Acknowledgements
Photographic Acknowledgements
Index
Subjects



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