Urban Communities and the “Weak” Empire in Roman North Africa (1^st to 6^th Century CE)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Local Self-Governance in Antiquity and in the Global South: An Introduction 1
4. Law, Patronage, and Communication as Pillars of Urban Governance 7
5. I Theory and Interdisciplinary Approaches
6. The State and the Good Society: Elements of the Liberal Communitarianism’s Political Conception 21
7. Claiming Legitimization: Non-State Violent Local Stakeholders and Power Legitimization of the Maccabees in Judea in the Second Century BCE and the Koglwéogo in Today’s Burkina Faso 47
8. Water for the People: Provision and Maintenance of Water Infrastructure in the Context of Weak Statehood in Antiquity and the Modern Era 77
9. II Antiquity
10. Syria and Judea
11. Ptolemaic Royal Decrees between Strong and Weak Statehood: Two Ordinances of Ptolemy II on Livestock and Slaves in the Southern Levant 107
12. Honor the King, and His Friends: The Extent of Early Hasmonean Statehood 133
13. Fundamentals of Self-Government in Ancient Jewish Writing 4 Maccabees 159
14. Christian Monasticism as a Facilitator of Local Self-Governance: The Case of sixth-century Gaza 177
15. Italy and North Africa
16. Whose Monuments? Italian Urbanism and Roman Interventions (2^nd–1^st Century BCE) 205
17. Undermining the Emperor in Late Roman Africa: Corruption, Maladministration, and the View from the Provinces 225
18. Urban Communities and the “Weak” Empire in Roman North Africa (1^st to 6^th Century CE) 291
19. III The Global South
20. China
21. Contested Spaces of Self-Governance? Local Participation in the Context of China’s PV Poverty Alleviation Strategy 327
22. Brazil
23. Experiences of Local Self-Regulation Legitimation in a South Brazilian Town: Credit Cooperative and Community Higher Education 367
24. Mozambique and Burkina Faso
25. A Cat-and-Mouse Game: Urban Street Vending in Maputo, Mozambique 397
26. Migration in Maputo City and Ethnic Cohesion among Africans: To What Extent Do Ethnic Ties Contribute to Inclusive Growth? 417
27. Local Self-Organisation under Socio-Spatial Pressure: Insights from Rural Karangasso- Vigué (Burkina Faso) and Peri-Urban Maputo (Mozambique) 439
28. Authors 465
29. Index 467