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The Carthaginian Empire - 550-202 BCE (Paperback)
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The Carthaginian Empire - 550-202 BCE (Paperback)
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The Carthaginian Empire: 550 - 202 BCE argues for a new history of
the Phoenician polity. In contrast to previous studies of the
Carthaginian Empire that privileged evidence from Greco-Roman
sources, Nathan Pilkington bases his study on evidence preserved in
the archaeological and epigraphic records of Carthage and its
colonies and dependencies. Using this evidence, Pilkington
demonstrates that the Carthaginian Empire of the 6th- 4th centuries
BCE - as recovered archaeologically and epigraphically - bears
little resemblance to currently accepted historical
reconstructions. He then presents an independent archaeological and
epigraphic reconstruction of the Carthaginian Empire. In this
presentation, the author argues that the Carthaginian Empire
developed later, chronologically, and was less extensive,
geographically, than reconstructions based on the Greco-Roman
source tradition suggest. Pilkington further shows that Carthage
developed a similar infrastructure of imperial power to those
developed in Rome and Athens. Like its contemporaries, Carthage
used colonization, the establishment of metropolitan political
institutions at dependent polities, and the reorganization of trade
into a metropolitan hub-and-spoke system to develop imperial
control over subordinated territories.
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