Birth of an Empire
Birth of an Empire

Author: Yuri Pines

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 0520289749

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In 221 BCE the state of Qin vanquished its rivals and established the first empire on Chinese soil, starting a millennium-long imperial age in Chinese history. Hailed by some and maligned by many, Qin has long been an enigma. In this pathbreaking study, the authors integrate textual sources with newly available archeological and paleographic materials, providing a boldly novel picture of Qin’s cultural and political trajectory, its evolving institutions and its religion, its place in China’s history, and the reasons for its success and for its ultimate collapse.

Writing and the Ancient State
Writing and the Ancient State

Author: Haicheng Wang

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-05-12

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 1107785871

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Writing and the Ancient State explores the early development of writing and its relationship to the growth of political structures. The first part of the book focuses on the contribution of writing to the state's legitimating project. The second part deals with the state's use of writing in administration, analyzing both textual and archaeological evidence to reconstruct how the state used bookkeeping to allocate land, police its people, and extract taxes from them. The third part focuses on education, the state's system for replenishing its staff of scribe-officials. The first half of each part surveys evidence from Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Maya lowlands, Central Mexico, and the Andes; against this background the second half examines the evidence from China. The chief aim of this book is to shed new light on early China (from the second millennium BC through the end of the Han period, ca. 220 AD) while bringing to bear the lens of cross-cultural analysis on each of the civilizations under discussion.

Colonial Policy and Practice
Colonial Policy and Practice

Author: John Sydenham Furnivall

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-08-21

Total Pages: 589

ISBN-13: 1108067980

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This influential 1948 study investigates the effects of colonial rule in Burma through comparison with the Dutch East Indies.

NIH Advisory Committees
NIH Advisory Committees

Author: National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Committee Management Staff

Publisher:

Published: 1988-04

Total Pages: 648

ISBN-13:

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"This publication presents in convenient form the authority, structure, functions, frequency of meetings, and membership of the NIH advisory committees." Arranged under Institute and Division served. Alphabetical indexes of public advisory groups and of members.

Ethiopia
Ethiopia

Author:

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9780821343142

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After being immersed in almost three decades of civil conflict, the prevailing peace and political stability in Ethiopia allowed its government to focus on rebuilding its economy. As an integral part of this undertaking, the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia is seeking to overhaul the landscape of human capital development in the country. This report discusses the situation and trends in education, health, nutrition, and population. It also examines the barriers to improvement from the points of view of Ethiopian households and public and private suppliers of services. It also attempts to identify the means by which the government can use public resources more effectively.