The Political Landscape: Constellations of Authority in Early Complex Polities

by Adam T. Smith

Book Overview

How do landscapes--defined in the broadest sense to incorporate the physical contours of the built environment, the aesthetics of form, and the imaginative reflections of spatial representations--contribute to the making of politics? Shifting through the archaeological, epigraphic, and artistic remains of early complex societies, this provocative and far-reaching book is the first systematic attempt to explain the links between spatial organization...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520237501
• ISBN13: 9780520237506
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 331 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.9"