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Origins of the State and Urbanization: Regional Perspectives

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Origin of the state is a persistent issue in social sciences and humanities. At present, there are several popular theories on the subject. This chapter discusses some crucial themes—factors of political centralization, stages of statehood, and the role of urbanization in state formation. The chapter deals with the specificity of regional aspects of the rise of complexity and urbanization on the example of two polities of the Russian Far East and Manchuria—the Bohai Kingdom and the Jurchen Empire.

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    It is believed that the chronology of the Jurchen politogenesis was inaccurately reflected in the Jin and Liao annals and the Song sources are more reliable. The question concerning the initial name of the state is also debated (Garsia 2012: 171 note 260).

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Kradin, N.N. (2020). Origins of the State and Urbanization: Regional Perspectives. In: Bondarenko, D.M., Kowalewski, S.A., Small, D.B. (eds) The Evolution of Social Institutions. World-Systems Evolution and Global Futures. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51437-2_5

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