The archaeology of imperial landscapes : a comparative study of empires in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean World
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Düring, Bleda S.
, [HerausgeberIn]
Stek, Tesse Dieder , [HerausgeberIn] |
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Cambridge :
Univ. Pr.,
2018.
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| Ausgabe: | 1rst. publ. |
| Umfang/Format: |
xv, 368 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. |
| Inhalte/Bestandteile: | 14 Datensätze |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 1. Ancient empires on the ground: provincial and peripheral perspectives Bleda S. During 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. During; 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, Ukraine) from the perspective of the Dzarylgae 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. During; Index.
