TY - BOOK AU - Hansen, Mogens Herman, ED - Københavns universitet ED - Symposium on the Concepts of City-State and City-State Culture TI - A comparative study of thirty city-state cultures : : an investigation conducted by the Copenhagen Polis Centre ; [on January 5 - 9, 1999 twenty-eight scholars from thirteen countries met with the members of the Copenhagen Polis Centre to hold a Symposium on the Concepts of City-State and City-State Culture] / T2 - Historisk-filosofiske skrifter / Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab ; SN - 8778761778 (hbk.) AV - AS281 JC352.D2144 Bd. 21 U1 - 080 s 909 21 PY - 2000/// CY - Copenhagen : PB - Reitzel KW - Stadtstaat KW - gnd KW - City-states KW - Cross-cultural studies KW - Cities and towns, Ancient KW - Urbanization KW - Extinct cities KW - Civilization, Ancient KW - City-states -- Cross-cultural studies KW - ისტორია KW - ანტიკური ქვეყნების ისტორია KW - ანტიკური ცივილიზაცია KW - ანტიკური ცივილიზაციის ისტორია KW - ანტიკური ქვეყნების კულტურა KW - ანტიკური ქვეყნების კულტურის ისტორია KW - Kongress N1 - A collection of revised papers contributed to a symposium held January 5-9, 1999 at the Copenhagen Polis Centre, with some additional contributions; Literaturangaben; Mit Reg; 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 ER -