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Sovereign City
The City-State Ancient and Modern
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
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