Ancient Empires - From Mesopotamia to the Rise of Islam (Hardcover)

Ancient Empires is a relatively brief yet comprehensive and even-handed overview of the ancient Near East, the Mediterranean, and Europe, including the Greco-Roman world, Late Antiquity, and the early Muslim period. Taking a focused and thematic approach, it aims to provoke a discussion of an explicit set of themes supplemented by the reading of ancient sources. By focusing on empires and imperialism as well as modes of response and resistance, it is relevant to current discussions about order, justice, and freedom. The book concludes that some of the ancient world's most enduring ideas, value systems, and institutions were formulated by peoples who were resisting the great empires. It analyzes the central, if problematic, connection between political and ideological power in both empire formation and resistance. The intricate interrelations among ideological, economic, military, and political power are explored for every empire and resisting group.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2011
First published:	2011
Authors:	Eric H. Cline • Mark W Graham
Dimensions:	260 x 183 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	376
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-88911-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
LSN:	0-521-88911-1
Barcode:	9780521889117

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