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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.

Contributor(s): Düring, Bleda S [editor.] | Stek, Tesse Dieder [editor.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: xv, 368 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781316639245Subject(s): Land settlement -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500 | Land settlement -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 1500 | Middle East -- Antiquities | Mediterranean Region -- Antiquities | Middle East -- History -- To 622 | Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 476DDC classification: 939.4 LOC classification: DS56 | .A77 2018
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.