Deborah L. Nichols Frances Berdan Michael E. Smith
With its rich archaeological and historical record, the Aztec empire provides an intriguing opportunity to understand the dynamics and structure of early states and empires. Rethinking the Aztec Economy brings together leading scholars from multiple disciplines to thoroughly synthesize and examine the nature of goods and their movements across rural and urban landscapes in Mesoamerica. In so doing, they provide a new way of understanding society and economy in the Aztec empire.
The volume is divided into three parts. Part 1 synthesizes our current understanding of the Aztec...
With its rich archaeological and historical record, the Aztec empire provides an intriguing opportunity to understand the dynamics and structure of...
This text introduces the politics of security: how and why issues are interpreted as security threats and how such threats are managed. It now includes an additional chapter on cyber security, but retains the same approach that gives readers the conceptual tools and knowledge of real-world problems required for a systematic approach to the subject.
This text introduces the politics of security: how and why issues are interpreted as security threats and how such threats are managed. It now incl...
This text introduces the politics of security: how and why issues are interpreted as security threats and how such threats are managed. It now includes an additional chapter on cyber security, but retains the same approach that gives readers the conceptual tools and knowledge of real-world problems required for a systematic approach to the subject.
This text introduces the politics of security: how and why issues are interpreted as security threats and how such threats are managed. It now incl...
A new conceptual framework for explaining and evaluating EU security assistance operations, supported by extensive interviews with high-level policy-makers.
A new conceptual framework for explaining and evaluating EU security assistance operations, supported by extensive interviews with high-level policy-m...
Presents the first set of consistent quantitative measurements of ancient wealth inequality. The authors are archaeologists who have adapted the Gini index, a statistical measure of wealth distribution often used by economists to measure contemporary inequality, and applied it to house-size distributions over time and around the world.
Presents the first set of consistent quantitative measurements of ancient wealth inequality. The authors are archaeologists who have adapted the Gini ...
