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The archaeology of imperial landscapes : a comparative study of empires in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean world / edited by Bleda S. During, Leiden University, Tesse D. Stek, Leiden University

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New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
Physical Description
xv, 368 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Additional Creators
Düring, Bleda S. and Stek, Tesse Dieder

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Contents
Ancient empires on the ground: Provincial and peripheral perspectives / Bleda Düring & Tesse Stek -- The transformation of rural societies and landscapes -- Engineering empire: A provincial perspective on the Middle Assyrian Empire / Bleda 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 Colburn -- Power at a distance: The hellenistic rural exploitation of the "Farther" Chora of Chersonesos (Crimea, Ukraïne) from the perspective of the D'arylga Survey Project / Peter Attema -- Early Roman colonization beyond the Romanizing Agro-Town: Village patterns of settlement and highland exploitation in the Abruzzo, Central Italy / Tesse D. Stek -- 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 & Rocco Palermo -- On the edge: Butrint on the Western Frontier of the Byzantine Empire / Joanita Vroom -- 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 & Bleda Düring.
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9781107189706 hardcover
1107189705 hardcover
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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