Kapitel
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The Composite City: Cities, Power Elites, and States in Early Modern European History
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Stephan Sander-Faes
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Acknowledgements V
- Contents VII
- Introduction 1
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I Rome and Her Cities – The Polycentric Empire
- The Dynamics of Dual-level Governance in the Roman Empire, First–Third Centuries CE: Incremental Permeation and Occasional Intrusions of Roman Normativity in Local Life 21
- The Actors of the Roman Imperial System and Their Mobility: Personal Relationships and Official Communication in the Early Empire 39
- Bilateral Relations, Federal Organisations, and Peer-Polity Interaction Within the Provinces of the Roman Empire 59
- The Self-presentation of the Greek Cities in Roman Imperial Asia Minor 79
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II Intersections of Polycentricity – The Medieval Towns
- Performative Self-representation of City Governments 97
- Securing Troops and Organising War by and between Communal States in the Swiss Confederation, 1350–1550 123
- Political Governance and ‘Civil Concord’ in Venice: The Experience of the Humanist and Ambassador Ermolao Barbaro (1454–1492) 139
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III The Polycentric Age – Early Modern Towns and the Patterns of Power
- Beyond the Town Hall: Sites of Political Representation in Early Modern Europe 153
- Polycentric Diplomacy? Actors and Levels of Foreign Policy in the Hanseatic Cities (Seventeenth–Eighteenth Centuries) 169
- Cities, Princes, and the Politics of Alliance in the Early Modern Holy Roman Empire 189
- The Composite City: Cities, Power Elites, and States in Early Modern European History 205
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IV The Contemporary City – Polycentric Disorder?
- Economic Boom, Environmental Crisis, and Polycentric Governance in a Transnational Perspective: Cities and States in Struggle along the Upper Rhine in the Late Nineteenth and the Late Twentieth Century 249
- “As Easy as Turning on the Tap”: Experiences of Water Usage in the City, 1918–1939 271
- Sister Cities and Urban Diplomacy Today 285
- List of Contributors 299
- Index Nominum 303
- Index Rerum 309
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Acknowledgements V
- Contents VII
- Introduction 1
-
I Rome and Her Cities – The Polycentric Empire
- The Dynamics of Dual-level Governance in the Roman Empire, First–Third Centuries CE: Incremental Permeation and Occasional Intrusions of Roman Normativity in Local Life 21
- The Actors of the Roman Imperial System and Their Mobility: Personal Relationships and Official Communication in the Early Empire 39
- Bilateral Relations, Federal Organisations, and Peer-Polity Interaction Within the Provinces of the Roman Empire 59
- The Self-presentation of the Greek Cities in Roman Imperial Asia Minor 79
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II Intersections of Polycentricity – The Medieval Towns
- Performative Self-representation of City Governments 97
- Securing Troops and Organising War by and between Communal States in the Swiss Confederation, 1350–1550 123
- Political Governance and ‘Civil Concord’ in Venice: The Experience of the Humanist and Ambassador Ermolao Barbaro (1454–1492) 139
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III The Polycentric Age – Early Modern Towns and the Patterns of Power
- Beyond the Town Hall: Sites of Political Representation in Early Modern Europe 153
- Polycentric Diplomacy? Actors and Levels of Foreign Policy in the Hanseatic Cities (Seventeenth–Eighteenth Centuries) 169
- Cities, Princes, and the Politics of Alliance in the Early Modern Holy Roman Empire 189
- The Composite City: Cities, Power Elites, and States in Early Modern European History 205
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IV The Contemporary City – Polycentric Disorder?
- Economic Boom, Environmental Crisis, and Polycentric Governance in a Transnational Perspective: Cities and States in Struggle along the Upper Rhine in the Late Nineteenth and the Late Twentieth Century 249
- “As Easy as Turning on the Tap”: Experiences of Water Usage in the City, 1918–1939 271
- Sister Cities and Urban Diplomacy Today 285
- List of Contributors 299
- Index Nominum 303
- Index Rerum 309
