This collaborative volume is concerned with long-term social
change. Envisaging individual societies as interlinked and
interdependent parts of a global social system, the aim of the
contributors is to determine the extent to which ancient societies
were shaped over time by their incorporation in - or resistance to
- the larger system. Their particular concern is the dependent
relationship between technically and socially more developed
societies with a strong state ideology at the centre and the
simpler societies that functioned principally as sources of raw
materials and manpower on the periphery of the system. The papers
in the first part of the book are all concerned with political
developments in the Ancient Near East and the notion of a regional
system as a framework for analysis. Part 2 examines the problems of
conceptualising local societies as discrete centres of development
in the context of both the Near East and prehistoric Europe during
the second millennium BC. Part 3 then presents a comprehensive
analytical study of the Roman Empire as a single system showing how
its component parts often relate to each other in uneven, even
contradictory, ways.
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