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Pac.GN492.55.E7 1997
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TITLE:
How chiefs come to power : the political economy in prehistory / Timothy Earle.
AUTHOR:
Earle, Timothy K.
PUBLISHED:
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1997.
DESCRIPTION:
xv, 250 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
NOTES:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-240) and index.
NOTES:
1. Introduction: the nature of political power -- 2. The long-term development of the three chiefdoms: Denmark, Hawaii and the Andes -- 3. Sources of economic power -- 4. Military power: the strategic use of naked force -- 5. Ideology as a source of power -- 6. Chiefly power strategies and the emergence of complex political institutions.
SUBJECT:
Chiefdoms.
SUBJECT:
Power (Social sciences)
SUBJECT:
Balance of power.
SUBJECT:
Economics, Prehistoric.
SUBJECT:
Social structure.
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