Territory and identity in Tibet and the Himalayas
In: Brill's Tibetan studies library 2,9
In: PIATS 2000: Tibetan studies; proceedings of the ninth seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Leiden 2000 9
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In: Brill's Tibetan studies library 2,9
In: PIATS 2000: Tibetan studies; proceedings of the ninth seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Leiden 2000 9
In: Culture and history of the ancient Near East 54
In: Biblical and Judaic studies from the University of California, San Diego volume 10
Lisbeth S. Fried's insightful study investigates the impact of Achaemenid rule on the political power of local priesthoods during the 6th-4th centuries B.C.E. Scholars typically assume that, as long as tribute was sent to Susa, the capital of the Achaemenid Empire, subject peoples remained autonomous. Fried's work challenges this assumption. She examines the inscriptions, coins, temple archives, and literary texts from Babylon, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Judah and concludes that there was no local autonomy. The only people with power in the Empire were Persians and their appointees, and this was true for Judah as well. The Judean priesthood achieved its longed-for independence only much later, under the Maccabees
In: Veröffentlichungen zur Sozialanthropologie 1
In: Denkschriften 252
World Affairs Online
Contributed articles presented at the conference "11th Bod-kyi rig-gnas bgro-glen" held in 2014 at Sa-rā Bod-kyi Mtho-rim Slob-gnyer-khang, Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh; on the historical value of Simla Accord, 1914. The Simla Accord, or the Convention Between Great Britain, China, and Tibet, in Simla, was a treaty concerning the status of Tibet negotiated by the representatives of the Republic of China, Tibet and the British India (United Kingdom) in Simla in 1913 and 1914
In: Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde 46