Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface / Jessica Joyce Christie, Jelena Bogdanović,
and Eulogio Guzmán
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Spatial Turn and Political Landscapes of Capital Cities / Eulogio Guzmán, Jessica Joyce Christie,
and Jelena Bogdanović
1. Akhenaten’s Amarna in New Kingdom Egypt: Relations of Landscape and Ideology / Jessica Joyce Christie
2. “Memorials of the Ability of Them All”: Tetrarchic Displays in the Roman Forum’s Central Area / Gregor Kalas
3. The Relational Spiritual Geopolitics of Constantinople, the Capital of the Byzantine Empire / Jelena Bogdanović
4. Beyond the Ashes: The Making of Bangkok as the Capital City of Siam / Melody Rod-ari
5. Monumental Perceptions of the Tiwanaku Landscape / Alexei Vranich
6. The Inka Capital Cusco as the Model of an Imperial Cultural Landscape / Jessica Joyce Christie
7. Making Landfall: Anchoring Authority in the Public and Private Political Sphere of the Basin of Mexico / Eulogio Guzmán
8. Provincial Capital vs. Peasant Capital: A Subaltern Perspective on Urban Rise and Fall from Grace / Anne Parmly Toxey
9. La Parola al Piccone: Demonstrations of Fascism at the Imperial Fora and the Mausoleum of Augustus / Stephanie Zeier Pilat
10. Tehran: A Revolution in Making / Talinn Grigor
Conclusions: Ontological Relations and the Spatial Politics of Capital Cities / Jelena Bogdanović, Jessica Joyce Christie, and Eulogio Guzmán
List of Contributors
Index