How Chiefs Come to Power The Political Economy in Prehistory

Name: How Chiefs Come to Power The Political Economy in Prehistory
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ISBN: 9780804728560

ISBN-10: 0804728569

ISBN-13: 9780804728560

Edition: 1997

Authors: Timothy Earle

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The author asserts that by studying the ways in which power was filtered down from the chief through the chiefly hierarchy, we can derive a view of the historical background to the modern world.

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 8/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 268
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English




Introduction: The Nature of Political Power



The Long-Term Developments of Three Chiefdoms: Denmark, Hawai'i, and the Andes



Sources of Economic Power



Military Power: The Strategic Use of Naked Force



Ideology as a Source of Power



Chiefly Power Strategies and the Emergence of Complex Political Institutions


Bibliography


Index