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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Chris Wickham |
| ISBN: | 0199212961 9780199212965 |
| OCLC Number: | 70764463 |
| Notes: | Originally published: 2005. |
| Awards: | Winner of Wolfson Literary Award for History 2006. |
| Description: | xxviii, 990 p. : maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | States -- Geography and politics -- The form of the state -- Aristocratic power-structures -- Aristocracies -- Managing the land -- Political breakdown and state-building in the North -- Peasantries -- Peasants and local societies: case studies -- Rural settlement and village societies -- Peasant society and its problems -- Networks -- Cities -- Systems of exchange -- General conclusions. |
| Responsibility: | Chris Wickham. |
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a tremendous achievement, demonstrating mastery over half a dozen fields of scholarship. David Abulafia, THES Wickham's work is groundbreaking ... Some of his conclusions may and should be debated, but they rest on an array of evidence and on a series of complex atguments that further discussions should not ignore. Walter Pohl, Speculum Read more...
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