A collection of revised papers contributed to a symposium held January 5-9, 1999 at the Copenhagen Polis Centre, with some additional contributions Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: Commission Agent: C.A. Reitzels Forlag - Copenhagen 2000 INTRODUCTION: The concepts of city-state and city-state culture / Mogens Herman Hansen THE ANCIENT WORLD: Les petits Etats mésopotamiens à la fin du 4e et au cours du 3e millénaire / Jean-Jacques Glassner The city-state in ancient Western Syria / Ingolf Thuesen The Palestinian city-states of the Bronze Age / John Strange The old Assyrian city-state / Mogens Trolle Larsen The early Phoenician city-states on the Mediterranean. Archaeological elements for their description / Hans Georg Niemeyer The city-states of the early Neo-Babylonian period / Mogens Trolle Larsen The Philistine city-states / John Strange The Hellenic Polis / Mogens Herman Hansen The Etruscan city-state / Mario Torelli The city-states in Latium / Tim J. Cornell 'Celtic' oppida / John Collis Mecca and Medina. Arab city-states or Arab caravan-cities? / Jørgen BÆk Simonsen Viking Dublin and the city-state concept. Parameters and significance of the Hiberno-Norse settlement / Poul Holm Novgorod, Kiev and their satellites. The city-state model and the Viking Age polities of European Russia / Neil Price The rise and fall of Italian city-states / Stephan R. Epstein Imperial and free towns of the Holy Roman Empire--city states in pre-modern Germany? / Peter Johanek Riechsstadt, eidgenössischer Ort, städtische Territorialherrschaft. Zu den Anfängen der Stadstaaten im Gebiet der heutigen Schweiz ; Summary : the formation of Swiss city-states (13th-15th centuries) / Martina Stercken The Dutch Republic's city-state culture (17th-18th centuries) / Maarten Prak ASIA: The city-state in spring-and-autumn China / Mark Edward Lewis Mahajanapada states of early historic India / Dilip Chakrabarti Ancient city-states of the Tarin Basin / Nicola di Cosmo City-states and city-state cultures in pre-15th century Southeast Asia / Pierre-Yves Manguin Negeri. The culture of Malay-speaking city-states of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Anthony Reid A regional explanation of the Tai Müang as a city-state / Richard A. O'Connor AFRICA: Le Mzâb cité-état / Farhat Jaabiri and Bahaiou Yahia The Swahili city-state culture / Paul Sinclair and N. Thomas H°kansson The Hausa city-states from 1450 to 1804 / Robert Griffeth Yoruba as a city-state culture / J.D.Y. Peel City-state culture on the Gold Coast : Fante city-states in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Ray A. Kea The Kotoko city-states / Mogens Herman Hansen The city-states of the Eastern Niger Delta / Kingta Irene Princewill MESOAMERICA: The city-states of the Maya / Nikolai Grube Mixtec city-states and Mixtec city-state culture / Michael D. Lind Aztec city-states / Michael E. Smith CONCLUSION: The impact of city-state cultures on world history / Mogens Herman Hansen |
