The province strikes back : imperial dynamics in the Eastern Mediterranean / edited by Björn Forsén and Giovanni Salmeri. - Helsinki : Suomen Ateenan-instituutin säätiö, 2008. - 214 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. - Papers and monographs of the Finnish Institute at Athens ; v. 13 . - Papers and monographs of the Finnish Institute at Athens ; v. 13. .

"This volume is based on the conference Experience of Empires -- Responses from the Provinces held at the Finnish Institute at Athens in June 2006"--P. i.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: Ideology and Practice of Empire / Björn Forsén and Giovanni Salmeri ; Provincial Challenges to the Imperial Centre in Achaemenid and Seleucid Asia Minor/ Vincent Gabrielsen ; Maintaining Order and Exercising Justice in the Roman Provinces of Asia Minor/ Cédric Brélaz ; Local Elites and Government Intervention in the Province of Anadolu / Suraiya Faroqhi ; What Difference Did Rome Make? The Cretans and the Roman Empire / Angelos Chaniotis ; Crete between the Byzantine and Venetian Empires / Maria Georgopoulou ; CentrePeriphery Relations : Crete in the Eighteenth Century / Antonis Anastasopoulos ; Empire and Collective Mentality : the Transformation of eutaxia from the Fifth Century BC to the Second Century AD / Giovanni Salmeri ; Provincial Elites, Central Authorities : problems in Fiscal and Military Management in the Byzantine State / John Haldon ; Empires and Migrational Trends : the Case of Roman and Ottoman Greece / Björn Forsén ; 'Dia doxan ekeinōn kai kleos tou ethnous' : the Philomousos Society of Athens and Antiquities / Ilias Arnaoutoglou.

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Imperialism--History--Congresses.


Mediterranean Region--History--Congresses.
Middle East--History--Congresses.


Conference papers and proceedings
History
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.

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