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By Achim Mittag,Fritz-Heiner Mutschler

The essays in Conceiving the Empire discover the psychological photos, rules, and symbolical representations of `empire' which built within the strongest political entities of antiquity: China and Rome. whereas the principal concentration is on historiography, different comparable fields also are explored: geography and cartography, epigraphy, artwork and structure, and, extra in most cases, political inspiration and the historical past of rules. Written through a collaborative group of specialists in Sinology and Classical reviews, the quantity focuses the eye of the rising self-discipline of East-West cross-cultural stories on a vital function of the traditional Mediterranean and chinese language worlds: the emergence of `empire' and the long-lasting impact of the `imperial' order.

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