Eric H. Cline, Mark W. Graham

Ancient Empires

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Introduction to the ancient Near East, Mediterranean and Europe, including the Greco-Roman world, Late Antiquity and the early Muslim period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 925g
• ISBN-13: 9780521889117
• ISBN-10: 0521889111
• Artikelnr.: 33115575

Autorenporträt

Eric H. Cline is Associate Professor and the Chair of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at The George Washington University. The author of more than eighty articles, his most recent books include Biblical Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction and From Eden to Exile: Unravelling Mysteries of the Bible.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: what is an (ancient) empire?
1. Prelude to the Age of Ancient Empires
2. The rise of the Age of Ancient Empires
3. Dealing with empires: varieties of responses
4. Beyond the Near East: the Neo-Babylonian and early Achaemenid Persian empires
5. The crucible of history: east meets west
6. Democracy and empire between Athens and Alexander
7. 'Spear-won' empires: the Hellenistic synthesis
8. The western Mediterranean and the rise of Rome
9. Imperium sine fine: Roman imperialism and the end of the old order
10. The new political order: the foundations of the principate
11. Ruling and resisting the Roman Empire
12. Imperial crisis and recovery
13. Universal empires and their peripheries in Late Antiquity
14. The formation of the Islamic world empire.