By Geoffrey Parker
ISBN-10: 1861892195
ISBN-13: 9781861892195
Town has had a wealthy and tumultuous heritage, evolving from a robust political entity in precedent days to its sleek function as an area hub of tourism and trade. Sovereign urban examines the character of the city's ever-changing prestige, as Geoffrey Parker investigates the city-state as a geopolitical shape and explores its precise area of interest inside types of states. This probing paintings analyzes many of the kinds of city-states all through international background, from the Greek polis, which Plato and Aristotle thought of the ideal kind of country, to the Roman imperial capital, to the political function of the town in early Islamic society. Parker additionally considers the revival of the eu city-state in past due medieval and Renaissance Italy and northerly Europe, which culminated within the Hanseatic League, and the way the increase of the geographical region contributed to the decline of the city-state.Sovereign urban is a wide-ranging and energetic exam that seeks to appreciate the position of the city-state from the delivery of Western civilization via its re-emergence on the sunrise of the twenty-first century within the a long way East and Islamic global.
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Like the Celts, they were an agricultural people engaged in arable and pastoral farming and they had migrated over the Alps from northern Europe. As they moved along the mountainous spine of Italy they sought to occupy and settle the richer lands in river basins such as the Volturno, the Gargliano and the Tiber.
As with most of the lands that have a 28 Mediterranean climate and geomorphology, there was limited agricultural potential and natural wealth. ‘Hellas and poverty have always been foster-sisters’, observed Herodotus,2 and, like the Phoenicians, the Greeks countered this by turning to maritime trade. By this means, they were soon able to avail themselves of the diverse products of a far larger area. Settled as they were around the north-eastern fringes of the Mediterranean sea, the Greeks were sufficiently removed from those major centres of imperialist activity that had made the eastern seaboard, the home of the Philistines and Phoenicians, so vulnerable to attack from the interior.
Educated by Greek tutors including Aristotle, Alexander was thoroughly versed in Greek culture and approved of the policy 48 . s ov e r e i g n c i t y embarked upon by his father. 2 He saw his mission as being the continuation of the process of bringing order to the turbulent Greek world so that the great civilization would be freed from strife. However, Alexander’s idea of unification became apparent when Thebes, by tradition the oldest of the Greek city-states, revolted against the Macedonian hegemony.