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_aEisenstadt, S. N. _q(Shmuel Noah), _d1923-2010. |
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_aThe decline of empires / _cedited by S. N. Eisenstadt. |
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_aEnglewood Cliffs, NJ : _bPrentice-Hall, _c1967. |
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_aviii, 180 p. : _bill., maps ; _c21 cm. |
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_aThe Global history series. _aA spectrum book ; _v154 |
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505 | 0 | _aI. INTRODUCTION : 1. General Observations on the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West -- II. THE BASIC COMMON CHARACTERISTICS OF THE EMPIRES : 2. Authority and Law in Ancient Egypt - 3. On the Destiny of Kings - 4. The Byzantine Emperor and the Hierarchical World Order - 5. Nature of the Islamic State - Centralized Administration : 6. The Government and the Governed in the Egyptian Empires - 7. Civil Service of the Ancient World - 8. The Chinese Civil Service - 9. Features of the Chinese Social Structure -- III. SOCIOPOLITICAL PROCESSES IN THE EMPIRES : 10. The Social, Political, and Religious Changes During the Last Period of the Roman Empire - 11. Manpower Shortage in the Government Services of the Roman Empire - 12. Social Structure and Economy in the Roman Empire - 13. The Byzantine Administration - 14. Social Structure and Economic Policies in the Byzantine Empires - 15. The Traditional Chinese Censorate and the New Peking Regime - 16. The Birth of Capitalism in China - 17. Evolution of Landownership in Fourth- and Fifth-Century China - 18. Landownership in China from the Fourth to the Fourteenth Century - 19. The State and Religion : An Exploratory Comparison in Different Cultures - 20. The Place of Confucianism in the Chinese Empire - 21. Revenue Farming -- IV. REBELLIONS AND CHANGE IN THE EMPIRES : 22. Sung Society : Change Within Tradition - 23. The Culmination of a Chinese Peasant Rebellion: Chang Hsien-Chung in Szechwan, 1644-46 - 24. Comparison of the Processes of Decline in the Eastern and Western Parts of the Roman Empires - 25. Forms of Political Conflict in the Byzantine Empire - 26. Economic Factors in the Decline of the Byzantine Empire -- Maps : The Roman Empire Near the End of the 4th Century AD - The Byzantine and Arab Empires-Early 9th Century AD - The Mongol and Ming Empires - The Manchu Empire. | |
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