The Oxford handbook of the state in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean / edited by Peter Fibiger Bang and Walter Scheidel.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Preface -- Studying the state / Walter Scheidel -- Egypt / Joseph G. Manning -- Fertile crescent city-states / Steven Garfinkle -- Mesopotamian empires / Gojko Barjamovic -- Anatolian states / Trevor Bryce -- Jewish states / Seth Schwartz -- Iranian empires / Josef Wiesehofer -- Bronze age Greece / John Bennet -- Greek city-states / Mogens H. Hansen -- Greek multi-city states / Ian Morris -- The Greek koinon / Emily Mackil -- Hellenistic empires / John Ma -- Carthage / Walter Ameling -- The Roman Empire I: the republic / Henrik Mouritsen -- The Roman Empire ii: the monarchy / Peter F. Bang -- The Byzantine successor state / John Haldon -- The Germanic successor states / Ian Wood -- The first Islamic empire / Chase Robinson.