Format:
1 online resource (482 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783110798098
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Local Self-Governance in Antiquity and in the Global South: An Introduction -- Law, Patronage, and Communication as Pillars of Urban Governance -- I Theory and Interdisciplinary Approaches -- The State and the Good Society: Elements of the Liberal Communitarianism's Political Conception -- Claiming Legitimization: Non-State Violent Local Stakeholders and Power Legitimization of the Maccabees in Judea in the Second Century BCE and the Koglwéogo in Today's Burkina Faso -- Water for the People: Provision and Maintenance of Water Infrastructure in the Context of Weak Statehood in Antiquity and the Modern Era -- Syria and Judea -- Ptolemaic Royal Decrees between Strong and Weak Statehood: Two Ordinances of Ptolemy II on Livestock and Slaves in the Southern Levant -- Honor the King, and His Friends: The Extent of Early Hasmonean Statehood -- Fundamentals of Self-Government in Ancient Jewish Writing 4 Maccabees -- Christian Monasticism as a Facilitator of Local Self-Governance: The Case of sixth-century Gaza -- Italy and North Africa -- Whose Monuments? Italian Urbanism and Roman Interventions (2< -- sup> -- nd< -- /sup> -- -1< -- sup> -- st< -- /sup> -- Century BCE) -- Undermining the Emperor in Late Roman Africa: Corruption, Maladministration, and the View from the Provinces -- Urban Communities and the "Weak" Empire in Roman North Africa (1< -- sup> -- st< -- /sup> -- to 6< -- sup> -- th< -- /sup> -- Century CE) -- III The Global South -- China -- Contested Spaces of Self-Governance? Local Participation in the Context of China's PV Poverty Alleviation Strategy -- Brazil -- Experiences of Local Self-Regulation Legitimation in a South Brazilian Town: Credit Cooperative and Community Higher Education -- Mozambique and Burkina Faso -- A Cat-and-Mouse Game: Urban Street Vending in Maputo, Mozambique.
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English
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