TY - BOOK AU - Forsén,Björn AU - Salmeri,Giovanni AU - Forsén,Björn AU - Salmeri,Giovanni TI - The province strikes back: imperial dynamics in the Eastern Mediterranean T2 - Papers and monographs of the Finnish Institute at Athens SN - 9789519880686 AV - DE1 PY - 2008/// CY - Helsinki PB - Suomen Ateenan-instituutin säätiö KW - Imperialism KW - History KW - Congresses KW - Mediterranean Region KW - Middle East KW - Conference papers and proceedings KW - fast N1 - "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 ER -