© 2016 by Jessica Joyce Christie, Jelena Bogdanović, and Eulogio Guzmán

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Christie, Jessica Joyce, 1956– editor. | Bogdanović, Jelena, 1973– editor. | Guzmán, Eulogio, editor.

Title: Political landscapes of capital cities / edited by Jessica Joyce Christie, Jelena Bogdanović, and Eulogio Guzmán.

Description: Boulder : University Press of Colorado, 2016. | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015033569 | ISBN 9781607324683 (cloth) | ISBN 9781607324690 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Capitals (Cities) | Cities and towns, Ancient. | Space—Political aspects. | Landscape archaeology—Political aspects. | Political anthropology.

Classification: LCC JF1900 .P65 2016 | DDC 306.209173/2—dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015033569

Image credits. Front cover, clockwise from top: urban beautification mural project, southern Tehran, Iran, photograph by Talinn Grigor; “Siege of Constantinople,” fresco, Moldoviţa, Romania, 1532, photograph by Elena Boeck; Folio 2r, Codex Mendoza (ca. 1540s), ink and wash on paper, The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, MS Arch Selden A.1, fol. 2r.; Wat Phra Sri Sanpetch, Ayutthaya, Thailand, photograph by Melody Rod-ari. Back cover: panoramic view of Matera, Italy, photograph by Anne Parmly Toxey.