Résumé
I-IV -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Contents -- PART ONE: Thesis -- 1 The Early State: Theories and Hypotheses -- 2 State Origins: A Reappraisal -- 3 Some Theoretical Problems of the Study of the Early State -- 4 The Origin of the State Among the Nomads of Asia -- PART TWO: Antithesis -- 5 Angkor: Society and State -- 6 Ankole: Pastoral Hegemony -- 7 Axum -- 8 The Legitimation of the Aztec State -- 9 China -- 10 The Early State in Ancient Egypt -- 11 The Early State in France -- 12 Early States in Ancient Georgia -- 13 The Early State in Hawaii -- 14 Early State of the Incas -- 15 The Galla State of Jimma Abba Jifar -- 16 The Kachari State: The Character of Early State-like Formations in the Hill Districts of Northeast India -- 17 The Kuba State -- 18 The Mauryan State -- 19 The Early State in Norway -- 20 The Early State Among the Scythians -- 21 Early State in Tahiti -- 22 Early States in the Voltaic Basin -- 23 Yoruba City-States (at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century) -- 24 Zande -- PART THREE: Synthesis -- 25 The Early State: A Structural Approach -- 26 The Early State as a Process -- 27 Limits: Beginning and End of the Early State -- 28 The Early State: Models and Reality -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects