POLIS: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ANCIENT GREEK CITY-STATE; TRANS. BY JOHN CROOK

From antiquity until the nineteenth century, there have been two types of state: macro-states, each dotted with a number of cities, and regions broken up into city-states, each consisting of an urban center and its hinterland. A region settled with interacting city-states constituted a city-state culture and Polis opens with a description of the concepts of city, state, city-state, and city-state culture, and a survey of the 37 city-state cultures so far identified. Mogens Herman Hansen provides a thoroughly accessible introduction to the polis (plural: poleis), or ancient Greek city-state, which represents by far the largest of all city-state cultures. He addresses such topics as the emergence of the polis, its size and population, and its political organization, ranging from famous poleis such as Athens and Sparta through more than 1,000 known examples. I: City-states In World History -- Cities, States, City-states And City-state Cultures -- A Sketch Of The Thirty-seven Identified City-state Cultures -- 'country-states' Versus City-state Cultures -- Ii: The City-state Culture In Ancient Greece -- The Unity Of The City-state Culture Of Ancient Greece -- The Rise Of The Ancient Greek City-state Culture -- The End Of The City-state Culture In Ancient Greece -- How Poleis Arose And Disappeared -- What Is A Polis? An Investigation Of The Concept Of 'polis' -- The 'polis' As City And State -- Polis As City -- The Settlement Pattern Of The Ancient Greek City-states -- The Size And Population Of The Cities -- The Demography Of The Greek City-state Culture -- The Economy Of The Cities: Max Weber's 'ideal Type' -- Polis As City In The Archaic Period -- The Greek Conception Of Polis As A City With A Hinterland -- Polis As State. Mogens Herman Hansen. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [191]-214) And Indexes. From antiquity until the nineteenth century, there have been two types of state: macro-states, each dotted with a number of cities, and regions broken up into city-states, each consisting of an urban centre and its hinterland. A region settled with interacting city-states constituted a city-state culture and Polis opens with a description of the concepts of city, state, city-state, and city-state culture, and a survey of the 37 city-state cultures so far identified. Mogens Herman Hansen provides a thoroughly accessible introduction to the polis (plural: poleis), or ancient Greek city-state, which represents by far the largest of all city-state cultures. He addresses such topics as the emergence of the polis, its size and population, and its political organization, ranging from famous poleis such as Athens and Sparta through more than 1,000 known examples. An accessible introduction to the polis (plural: poleis), or ancient Greek city-state. Mogens Herman Hansen addresses such topics as the emergence of the polis, its size and population, and its political culture, ranging from famous poleis such as Athens and Sparta through more than 1,000 known examples. - ;From antiquity until the nineteenth century, there have been two types of state: macro-states, each dotted with a number of cities, and regions broken up into city-states, each consisting of an urban centre and its hinterland. A region settled with interacting city-states constituted a city In the very long perspective there are three milestones in the history of mankind before the Industrial Revolution: (1) the change from hunting and fishing to agriculture and herding as the most important mode of getting a living, (2) the change from dispe