Empire, Authority, and Autonomy in Achaemenid Anatolia - Elspeth R. M. (Associate Professor Dusinberre - Bog

This book offers a radical new approach to understanding the Achaemenid Persian Empire and imperialism more generally. Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre shows how the rulers of the Empire constructed a system flexible enough to provide for the needs of different peoples within the confines of a single imperial authority and highlights the variability in response.