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A lively combination of scholarship and unorthodoxy makes these studies in ancient history and literature unusually rewarding. Few of the objects of conventional admiration gain much support from Peter Green (Pericles and the "democracy" of fifth-century Athens are treated to a very cool scrutiny) but he has a warm regard for the real virtues of antiquity and for those who spoke with "an individual voice."The studies cover both history and literature, Greece and Rome. They range from the real nature of Athenian society to poets as diverse as Sappho and Juvenal, and all of them, without laboring any parallels, make the ancient world immediately relevant to our own. (There is, for example, a very perceptive essay on how classical history often becomes a vehicle for the historian's own political beliefs and fantasies of power.) The student of classical history will find plenty in this book to enrich his own studies. The general reader will enjoy the vision of a classical world which differs radically from what he probably expects.

Civilization, Ancient. --- Ancient civilization --- Greece --- Civilization --- ancient greece. --- ancient history. --- ancient rome. --- ancient world. --- classical world. --- contemporary historians. --- criticism. --- democracy. --- essays. --- global influence. --- global literature. --- greece. --- greek history. --- greek society. --- historians. --- historical commentary. --- history and literature. --- history students. --- history. --- juvenal. --- literary criticism. --- modern historiography. --- nonfiction. --- parthenon. --- poetry. --- power struggle. --- roman history. --- roman society. --- sappho. --- scholars. --- world history. --- world literature.

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In How Chiefs Became Kings, Patrick Vinton Kirch addresses a central problem in anthropological archaeology: the emergence of "archaic states" whose distinctive feature was divine kingship. Kirch takes as his focus the Hawaiian archipelago, commonly regarded as the archetype of a complex chiefdom. Integrating anthropology, linguistics, archaeology, traditional history, and theory, and drawing on significant contributions from his own four decades of research, Kirch argues that Hawaiian polities had become states before the time of Captain Cook's voyage (1778-1779). The status of most archaic states is inferred from the archaeological record. But Kirch shows that because Hawai`i's kingdoms were established relatively recently, they could be observed and recorded by Cook and other European voyagers. Substantive and provocative, this book makes a major contribution to the literature of precontact Hawai`i and illuminates Hawai`i's importance in the global theory and literature about divine kingship, archaic states, and sociopolitical evolution.

Chiefdoms --- Hawaiians --- First contact (Anthropology) --- Hawaiians --- History. --- Kings and rulers. --- Politics and government. --- ancient hawaii. --- ancient history. --- anthropology. --- archaeological record. --- archaeology. --- archaic states. --- captain cook. --- chiefdom. --- cultural social. --- divine kingship. --- european voyagers. --- global theory. --- hawaiian archipelago. --- hawaiian politics. --- historical anthropology. --- historical. --- island life. --- kings. --- leadership roles. --- linguistics. --- nonfiction. --- politics. --- polities. --- power struggle. --- precontact hawaii. --- research. --- social science. --- sociopolitical evolution. --- theoretical perspective. --- traditional history.

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An American Empire, constructed over the last century, long ago overtook European colonialism, and it has been widely assumed that the new globalism it espoused took us "beyond geography." Neil Smith debunks that assumption, offering an incisive argument that American globalism had a distinct geography and was pieced together as part of a powerful geographical vision. The power of geography did not die with the twilight of European colonialism, but it did change fundamentally. That the inauguration of the American Century brought a loss of public geographical sensibility in the United States was itself a political symptom of the emerging empire. This book provides a vital geographical-historical context for understanding the power and limits of contemporary globalization, which can now be seen as representing the third of three distinct historical moments of U.S. global ambition. The story unfolds through a decisive account of the career of Isaiah Bowman (1878-1950), the most famous American geographer of the twentieth century. For nearly four decades Bowman operated around the vortex of state power, working to bring an American order to the global landscape. An explorer on the famous Machu Picchu expedition of 1911 who came to be known first as "Woodrow Wilson's geographer," and later as Franklin D. Roosevelt's, Bowman was present at the creation of U.S. liberal foreign policy. A quarter-century later, Bowman was at the center of Roosevelt's State Department, concerned with the disposition of Germany and heightened U.S. access to European colonies; he was described by Dean Acheson as a key "architect of the United Nations." In that period he was a leader in American science, served as president of Johns Hopkins University, and became an early and vociferous cold warrior. A complicated, contradictory, and at times controversial figure who was very much in the public eye, he appeared on the cover of Time magazine. Bowman's career as a geographer in an era when the value of geography was deeply questioned provides a unique window into the contradictory uses of geographical knowledge in the construction of the American Empire. Smith's historical excavation reveals, in broad strokes yet with lively detail, that today's American-inspired globalization springs not from the 1980's but from two earlier moments in 1919 and 1945, both of which ended in failure. By recharting the geography of this history, Smith brings the politics-and the limits-of contemporary globalization sharply into focus.

Globalization --- Geography --- Geographers --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- Earth scientists --- History --- Bowman, Isaiah, --- Pao-man, --- american empire. --- american history. --- colonialism. --- colonies. --- contemporary. --- cultural history. --- cultural studies. --- culture. --- debunked. --- empire. --- europe. --- european colonialism. --- european colonies. --- european history. --- explorer. --- foreign policy. --- geography. --- global. --- globalism. --- globalization. --- international. --- modern world. --- myth. --- power structure. --- power struggle. --- science. --- social history. --- social studies. --- state department. --- united nations. --- united states history. --- us history.

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The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the empire created this culture with a bureaucracy smaller than that of a typical late-twentieth-century research university. In approaching this problem, Clifford Ando does not ask the ever-fashionable question, Why did the Roman empire fall? Rather, he asks, Why did the empire last so long? Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire argues that the longevity of the empire rested not on Roman military power but on a gradually realized consensus that Roman rule was justified. This consensus was itself the product of a complex conversation between the central government and its far-flung peripheries. Ando investigates the mechanisms that sustained this conversation, explores its contribution to the legitimation of Roman power, and reveals as its product the provincial absorption of the forms and content of Roman political and legal discourse. Throughout, his sophisticated and subtle reading is informed by current thinking on social formation by theorists such as Max Weber, Jürgen Habermas, and Pierre Bourdieu.

Allegiance --- Political stability --- Roman provinces --- State governments --- Destabilization (Political science) --- Political instability --- Stability, Political --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Legitimacy of governments --- Loyalty, Political --- Political loyalty --- Loyalty --- Citizenship --- Patriotism --- Administration. --- Rome --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy) --- History --- Influence. --- Cultural policy --- Allegiance - Rome. --- Political stability - Rome. --- administration. --- allegiance. --- ancient rome. --- ancient world. --- augustus. --- body politic. --- bourdieu. --- bureaucracy. --- central government. --- christian ideology. --- empire. --- fall of the empire. --- government. --- habermas. --- history. --- imperial identity. --- max weber. --- nonfiction. --- political consensus. --- political stability. --- politics. --- power struggle. --- power. --- provinces. --- provincial loyalty. --- revolt. --- roman emperors. --- roman empire. --- roman government. --- roman history. --- roman military. --- roman senate. --- rome. --- social formation.

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The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the empire created this culture with a bureaucracy smaller than that of a typical late-twentieth-century research university. In approaching this problem, Clifford Ando does not ask the ever-fashionable question, Why did the Roman empire fall? Rather, he asks, Why did the empire last so long? Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire argues that the longevity of the empire rested not on Roman military power but on a gradually realized consensus that Roman rule was justified. This consensus was itself the product of a complex conversation between the central government and its far-flung peripheries. Ando investigates the mechanisms that sustained this conversation, explores its contribution to the legitimation of Roman power, and reveals as its product the provincial absorption of the forms and content of Roman political and legal discourse. Throughout, his sophisticated and subtle reading is informed by current thinking on social formation by theorists such as Max Weber, Jürgen Habermas, and Pierre Bourdieu.

Allegiance --- -Political stability --- -Destabilization (Political science) --- Political instability --- Stability, Political --- Loyalty, Political --- Political loyalty --- Rome --- Cultural policy --- -Influence. --- History --- Provinces --- -Administration. --- Political stability --- Roman provinces --- Administration. --- Influence. --- Allégeance --- Stabilité politique --- Politics and government --- Administration --- Politique et gouvernement --- Histoire --- State governments --- Destabilization (Political science) --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Legitimacy of governments --- Loyalty --- Citizenship --- Patriotism --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy) --- Allegiance - Rome. --- Political stability - Rome. --- Influence --- administration. --- allegiance. --- ancient rome. --- ancient world. --- augustus. --- body politic. --- bourdieu. --- bureaucracy. --- central government. --- christian ideology. --- empire. --- fall of the empire. --- government. --- habermas. --- history. --- imperial identity. --- max weber. --- nonfiction. --- political consensus. --- political stability. --- politics. --- power struggle. --- power. --- provinces. --- provincial loyalty. --- revolt. --- roman emperors. --- roman empire. --- roman government. --- roman history. --- roman military. --- roman senate. --- rome. --- social formation.