Chapter 1. Before Things Worked: A “Low-Power” Model of Early Mesopotamia

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: States and State Power in Antiquity 1
4. Chapter 1. Before Things Worked: A “Low-Power” Model of Early Mesopotamia 17
5. Chapter 2. Property Claims and State Formation in the Archaic Greek World 63
6. Chapter 3. Western Zhou Despotism 91
7. Chapter 4. The Ambitions of Government: Territoriality and Infrastructural Power in Ancient Rome 115
8. Chapter 5. Populist Despotism and Infrastructural Power in the Later Roman Empire 149
9. Chapter 6. Territorializing Iran in Late Antiquity: Autocracy, Aristocracy, and the Infrastructure of Empire 179
10. Chapter 7. Kinship and the Performance of Inca Despotic and Infrastructural Power 218
11. Chapter 8. Statehood, Taxation, and State Infrastructural Power in Visigothic Iberia 243
12. Chapter 9. Did the Byzantine Empire Have “Ecumenical” or “Universal” Aspirations? 272
13. Contributors 301
14. Index of Subjects 303
15. Index of Citations 307