Description |
1 online resource (xv, 368 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; One Ancient Empires on the Ground; Comparing Empires; Peripheral and Provincial Perspectives; The Problem of Empire; The Logistics of Empires; Heterogeneous Empires; This Book; Acknowledgements; Note; I The Transformation of Rural Societies and Landscapes; Two Engineering Empire; Introduction; The Mesopotamian Context; Comparing Ancient Near Eastern Empires; A Provincial Perspective on the Middle Assyrian Empire; The Assur Region in Middle Assyrian Times |
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The Lower Khabur in Middle Assyrian TimesThe Upper Khabur in Middle Assyrian Times; The Balikh in Middle Assyrian Times; Assyrian Repertoires of Rule Reconsidered; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes; References; Three The Creation of the Assyrian Heartland; Introduction; The Making of the 'Land of Ashur'; The Foundation of Large Fortified Capital and Provincial Cities; The Forced Migration of Deportees; The Creation of a Dense Network of Small Rural Settlements; The Construction of Hydraulic Systems of Regional Scale; The Symbolic Appropriation of Dominated Landscapes |
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The Assyrian Landscape in the 'Land behind Nineveh' and Its TransformationLoNAP Goals and Research Methods; Settlement Patterns in the Land behind Nineveh from the Middle Bronze Age to the Iron Age; The Neo-Assyrian Hydraulic Network in the Land behind Nineveh: Agricultural Intensification ... ; Reassessing Assyrian Deportation Practices; Conclusions; Acknowledgements; Notes; References; Four Pioneers of the Western Desert; Achaemenid Rule in Rural Perspective; The Kharga Oasis as a Landscape of Preservation; The Ecology and History of the Kharga Oasis; Agricultural Infrastructure |
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Religious InfrastructureThe Development of the Kharga Oasis; Integrating the Hinterlands; Acknowledgements; Notes; References; Five Power at a Distance; Introduction; Chersonesos and the Socioeconomic Nature of Its Nearer Chora on the Herakleian Peninsula; Rural Development of the Tarkhankut Peninsula; The DSP Survey: Landscape and Methodology; The DSP Survey: Archaeological Remains in the Cultivated Plain and Hillside Steppe; The DSP Survey: The Funerary Landscape; Hypotheses on Settlement and Land Use; Chersonesos and Its Farther Chora; The Sustainability of the Farther Chora of Chersonesos |
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The Fate of Northwestern Crimea in the Face of EmpireConclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Six Early Roman Colonisation beyond the Romanising Agrotown; Introduction; Roman Imperialism and Colonisation; The Colony as Romanising Town; Recent Critiques of Colonies as Romanising Towns; Colonial Variability: Merits and Limitations; Widening the Scope: Differential Motivations and Patterns of Impact; Alba Fucens: A Case Study of Roman Expansionism in the Apennines; Conclusion; References; II The Transformation of Peripheral Societies and Landscapes; Seven Negotiation, Violence, and Resistance |
Summary |
This book examines the poorly understood transformations in rural landscapes and societies that formed the backbone of ancient empires |
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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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Introduction |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Land settlement -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500
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Land settlement -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 1500
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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Antiquities
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Land settlement
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Middle East -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90004414
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Mediterranean Region -- Antiquities
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Middle East -- History -- To 622.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090507
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Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 476.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98005633
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Mediterranean Region
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Middle East
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Düring, Bleda S., editor
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Stek, Tesse Dieder, editor
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ISBN |
9781108103176 |
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1108103170 |
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9781316995495 |
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1316995496 |
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1108100376 |
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9781108100373 |
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