State Power in Ancient China and Rome

by Walter Scheidel

Book Overview

Two thousand years ago, the Qin/Han and Roman empires were the largest political entities of the ancient world, developing simultaneously yet independently at opposite ends of Eurasia. Although their territories constituted only a small percentage of the global land mass, these two Eurasian polities controlled up to half of the world population and endured longer than most pre-modern imperial states. Similarly, their eventual collapse occurred during...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197552293
• ISBN13: 9780197552292
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"