Political landscapes of capital cities
"Investigates the transformation of landscapes into culturally constructed and ideologically defined political environments of capital cities. In this spatially inclusive, socially dynamic interpretation, an interdisciplinary group uses a methodology to expose the associations between human-mad...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boulder :
University Press of Colorado
2016.
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| Colección: | JSTOR Open Access monographs.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b38349462*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Spatial Turn and Political Landscapes of Capital Cities; 1 Akhenaten's Amarna in New Kingdom Egypt: Relations of Landscape and Ideology; 2 "Memorials of the Ability of Them All": Tetrarchic Displays in the Roman Forum's Central Area; 3 The Relational Spiritual Geopolitics of Constantinople, the Capital of the Byzantine Empire; 4 Beyond the Ashes: The Making of Bangkok as the Capital City of Siam; 5 Monumental Perceptions of the Tiwanaku Landscape.
- 6 The Inka Capital Cusco as the Model of an Imperial Cultural Landscape7 Making Landfall: Anchoring Authority in the Public and Private Political Sphere of the Basin of Mexico; 8 Provincial Capital vs. Peasant Capital: A Subaltern Perspective on Urban Rise and Fall from Grace; 9 La Parola al Piccone: Demonstrations of Fascism at the Imperial Fora and the Mausoleum of Augustus; 10 Tehran: A Revolution in Making; Conclusions: Ontological Relations and the Spatial Politics of Capital Cities; List of Contributors; Index.
