The archaeology of imperial landscapes : a comparative study of empires in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean world / edited by Bleda S. Düring; Tesse D. Stek.

• Ancient empires on the ground : provincial and peripheral perspectives / Bleda S. Düring and Tesse D. Stek -- I. The transformation of rural societies and landscapes. Engineering empire : a provincial perspective on the Middle Assyrian Empire / Bleda S. Düring -- The creation of the Assyrian heartland : new data from the 'land behind Nineveh' / Daniele Morandi Bonacossi -- Pioneers of the western desert : the Kharga Oasis in the Achaemenid Empire / Henry P. Colburn -- Power at a distance : the hellenistic rural exploitation of the 'Farther' Chora of Chersonesos (Crimea, Ukraïne) from the perspective of the Džarylgač Survey Project / Peter Attema -- Early Roman colonisation beyond the Romanising Agrotown : village patterns of settlement and highland exploitation in the Abruzzi Mountains, Central Italy / Tesse D. Stek -- II. The transformation of peripheral societies and landscapes. Negotiation, violence, and resistance : Urartu's frontiers in the Iron Age Caucasus / Lauren Ristvet -- The archaeology of imperial borderlands : a view from Roman Egypt and Sudan / Anna Lucille Boozer -- Living on the edge : the Roman Empire in the north Mesopotamian Steppe / Lidewijde de Jong and Rocco Palermo -- On the edge : Butrint on the western frontier of the Byzantine Empire / Joanita Vroom -- III. Comparing repertoires of rule in rural and peripheral regions. Strategies of empire expansion / J. Daniel Rogers -- What's the big picture? : comparative perspectives on the archaeology of empire / Bradley J. Parker -- Towards a patchwork perspective on ancient empires / Tesse D. Stek and Bleda S. Düring.

• 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. 

Ämnesord

Fornlämningar  (sao)

Historia  (sao)

Imperialism  -- historia (sao)

Jordbrukspolitik  -- historia (sao)

Bosättningsmönster  -- historia (sao)

Antiquities  (LCSH)

History  (LCSH)

Mellanöstern  (sao)

Medelhavsländerna  (sao)

Före 1500  (sao)

Klassifikation

938 (DDC)

K.24 (kssb/8 (machine generated))