Archaeology of Imperial Landscapes (eBook, ePUB)

A Comparative Study of Empires in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean World
Redaktion: During, Bleda S.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Archaeology of Imperial Landscapes examines the transformation of rural landscapes and societies that formed the backbone of ancient empires in the Near East and Mediterranean. Through a comparative approach to archaeological data, it analyses the patterns of transformation in widely differing imperial contexts in the ancient world. Bringing together a range of studies by an international team of scholars, the volume shows that empires were dynamic, diverse, and experimental polities, and that their success or failure was determined by a combination of forceful interventions, as well as the new possibilities for those dominated by empires to collaborate and profit from doing so. By highlighting the processes that occur in rural and peripheral landscapes, the volume demonstrates that the archaeology of these non-urban and literally eccentric spheres can provide an important contribution to our understanding of ancient empires. The 'bottom up' approach to the study of ancient empires is crucial to understanding how these remarkable socio-political organisms could exist and persist.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108100373
• Artikelnr.: 53385847

Inhaltsangabe

1. Ancient empires on the ground: provincial and peripheral perspectives
Bleda S. Düring and Tesse Stek; Part I. The Transformation of Rural
Societies and Landscapes: 2. Engineering empire: a provincial perspective
on the Middle Assyrian empire Bleda S. Düring; 3. The creation of the
Assyrian heartland: new data from the 'land behind Nineveh' Daniele Morandi
Bonacossi; 4. Pioneers of the Western Desert: the Kharga Oasis in the
Achaemenid Empire Henry Colburn; 5. Power at a distance: the Hellenistic
rural exploitation of the 'farther' chora of Chersonesos (Crimea, Ukraïne)
from the perspective of the Darylgaè survey project Peter Attema; 6. Early
Roman colonization beyond the Romanizing agro-town: village patterns of
settlement and highland exploitation in the Abruzzo, Central Italy Tesse D.
Stek; Part II. The Transformation of Peripheral Societies and Landscapes:
7. Negotiation, violence, and resistance: Urartu's frontiers in the Iron
Age Caucasus Lauren Ristvet; 8. The archaeology of imperial borderlands: a
view from Roman Egypt and Sudan Anna Lucille Boozer; 9. Living on the edge:
the Roman Empire in the North Mesopotamian Steppe Lidewijde de Jong and
Rocco Palermo; 10. On the edge: Butrint on the western frontier of the
Byzantine Empire Joanita Vroom; Part III. Comparing Repertoires of Rule in
Rural and Peripheral Regions: 11. Strategies of empire expansion J. Daniel
Rogers; 12. What's the big picture? Comparative perspectives on the
archaeology of empire Bradley J. Parker; 13. Towards a patchwork
perspective of ancient empires Tesse D. Stek and Bleda S. Düring; Index.