5. Extracting Cohesion: Fiscal Strategies in the Hittite Staple Economy

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures ix
4. Preface xi
5. 1. A State of Extraction: Navigating Taxation in Ancient Polities 1
6. Tax Systems
7. 2. Taxing Questions: Financing the Chinese Bronze Age 39
8. 3. Co- Option and Patronage: The Mechanics of Extraction in Southern Mesopotamia under the Third Dynasty of Ur 71
9. 4. The Extractive Systems of the Mycenaean World 93
10. 5. Extracting Cohesion: Fiscal Strategies in the Hittite Staple Economy 128
11. 6. Taxation in Anglo- Saxon England, Fifth– Ninth Centuries CE 160
12. 7. Taxation, Aristocratic Autonomy, and Theories of Reciprocity in the Iranian Empire 178
13. Tax Transitions
14. 8. Fiscal Transformation during the Formative Period of Ancient Chinese Empire (Late Fourth to First Century BCE) 203
15. 9. The Fiscality of Foreign Relations in the Roman Republic (241– 146 BCE) 262
16. 10. Changes and Limits of Royal Taxation in Pharaonic Egypt (2300– 2000 BCE) 290
17. 11. Greek Perspectives on Fiscal Administration under Alexander the Great 325
18. 12. The Anabolikon Tax and the Study of the Linen Industry in Roman Egypt 343
19. About the Contributors 369
20. Index 373