Cities and Empires
Derek Keene
This article reflects on the ways in which cities—from ancient world to present and four continents—have expressed transmitted imperial ideas. Different types of empires are considered: territorial, commercial, nomadic, dispositional, reactive. The cities themselves might be central sites rule, often incorporating symbols power imported from earlier empires; outposts commerce or rule; military encampments; some mixture these. Strategies rule forms shaped by traditions ruling group reference political cosmological systems other deemed worthy emulation. At same time, city governmental structures lands taken into an empire absorbed used itself, sometimes even after has been dissolved.
Journal of Urban History