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Roman Government and Administration
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Christer Bruun
Published: 06 January 2015
.... ” Chiron 29: 147–182. Williams, W. 1986 . “ Epigraphic Texts of Imperial Subscripts: A Survey. ” ZPE 66: 181–207. The limits of our knowledge of how Roman government worked, in particular provincial administration, have been well laid out by G.P. Burton...
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Chiefs, elders, and traditional authority
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Michelle Osborn
Published: 02 April 2020
... to be, but are rather an embodiment of the state’s bureaucratic apparatus. As a key component of Kenyan bureaucracy through their position in provincial administration, chiefs have played a central role in the implementation of policies, the provision of order, and mobilization of political support. They act...
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The Empire in the Southwest: Reconstructing Assyrian Activity in the Provinces
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Avraham Faust
Published: 18 January 2021
... objects metal items objects Galil G corruption imperial peace Assyrian administration borderlands border areas provincial administration client kingdoms distant provinces Dor Phoenicians Samaria Megiddo In previous chapters we have seen that actual indications for the presence of Assyrians...
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Far More Imprisonments: Punitive Custody in the Letters of Paul
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Ryan S. Schellenberg
Published: 22 July 2021
... to the praetorium in Phil 1:13 likely refers to a provincial administrative building; the believers from “the household of Caesar” (οἱ ἐκ τῆς Καίσαρος οἰκίας) who send their greetings in 4:22 appear to be a group of imperial slaves and freedpersons whose connection with the Philippian congregation suggests...
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Governing and the Governed
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Janet M. Hartley
Published: 26 August 2014
...This chapter examines provincial administration and contact between people and the state in Siberia over the eighteenth and first three quarters of the nineteenth century. Russian provincial administration was poor: officials were often incompetent, ignorant, or corrupt; the powers of higher...
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Corruption and Anticorruption in France between the 1670s and the 1780s: The Example of the Provincial Administration of Languedoc
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Stéphane Durand
Published: 07 December 2017
...This chapter shows that the way in which corruption was dealt with at the level of provincial administration depended on how it was uncovered and on the choice of individual plaintiffs between the ordinary courts of the kingdom (justice déléguée ) and the king’s justice ...
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Imperial Power, Provincial Government, and the Emergence of Roman Asia, 133 BCE-14 CE
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Bradley Jordan
Published online: 23 November 2023
Published in print: 24 October 2023
... into a Roman province they became clientes of the Roman people and of the magistrates responsible. Interpreting this in light of formal personal clientela as practiced at Rome, he argued that provincial administration arose out of these client patron relationships. While more recent scholarship has...
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The plebiscitum Claudianum
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André Tchernia
Published: 06 October 2016
... to provincial administration and the signing of contracts. In effect, it was a way of preventing senators from having anything to do with the transport of grain obtained through taxes—a hypothesis endorsed here and examined in greater depth. quaestus senators fortunes of tonnage equestrian grain risk...
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The Roman Provincial Administration
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Rudolf Haensch
Published: 18 September 2012
...This article describes Roman provincial administration, starting with the provinces and their boundaries. It then looks at the personnel who helped Roman governors deal with the administration of their province. Finally, the article discusses the different activities of the Roman governors...
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The politics of the provincial administration
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Walter O. Oyugi and Jimmy O. Ochieng
Published: 02 April 2020
...This chapter traces the evolution and strengthening of the provincial administration as the executive’s instrument of maintaining control from the political center to the local level, which the state has used intensively to intervene in the body politic. The administration has been the eyes...
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Fighting for empire
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W. Jeffrey Tatum
Published: 19 October 2023
...This chapter covers Antony’s activities as a cavalry prefect under Aulus Gabinius, the proconsul of Syria. Topics covered include: the nature of Roman imperialism and the Romans’ conception of their empire; the nature of provinces and provincial administration; Rome’s policy on annexation...
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Provincial Administration after the Palu Nobility
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Nilay Özok-Gündoğan
Published: 13 December 2022
... of meritocracy, emphasizing specific skills and training for kaymakams. The chapter further illustrates the central Ottoman state's attempts to exclude local actors from the decision-making process in provincial administration by exploring the politics surrounding the appointments of Palu's kaymakams from...
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Published: 28 March 2013
... imperial power Jat Sikh zamindars non-Jat zamindars Sikhs Banda Bahadur hill chiefs Khatris local administration provincial administration regional administration uprisings The problems of local and provincial administration were much more serious in the Punjab. The province continued...
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Policing the Roman Empire: Soldiers, Administration, and Public Order
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Christopher Fuhrmann
Published online: 19 January 2012
Published in print: 13 December 2011
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Published: 04 October 2016
... shift in Ottoman provincial administration as well as from a very favorable economic context, in particular the development of commercial tobacco farming in the northern highlands around Latakia. If the eighteenth century witnessed the emergence of a veritable Ottoman–ʻAlawi landed gentry, it also saw...
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The Bishops: Worldly Greatness
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John McManners
Published: 08 July 1999
... Mazarin Jules as minister of the Crown monarchy Richelieu Card Armand Jean Duplessis State bishops Estates provincial administration What sort of men were brought to the bishoprics by the operation of royal choice and these aristocratic vocations? They had poise and a social viability enabling them...
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Published: 28 March 2013
... Jagat Narāin grandson of Ātmā Rām Lachhmī Narāin grandson of ātmā Rām Murshid Qulī Khān Calkins Philip on regional ruling group Qazilbāsh in Awadh army ‘Successor State’ Mughal empire provincial administration local administration jagir administration faujdar Burhan-ul-Mulk Safdar Jang...
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