Product Description: This volume focuses on the political economy of early state societies and the ways in which the income of the central government of such systems was collected and spent. At the theoretical end of the spectrum, this book offers a general discussion of the concept of political economy; modes of production in antiquity; and an overview of early state organizational forms...read more

Product Description: Pp. viii, 216; 2 text-figures, 1 map. Publisher's original yellow stiff printed wrappers, lg 8vo. In this volume, anthropologists, historians and classical scholars contribute 12 chapters on the dynamics of Early States ranging from Angkor to the Incas, and from Ancient Greece to Vijayanagara...read more