Commerce and Colonization in the Ancient Near East

Informationen zum Autor Maria Eugenia Aubet is Professor of Archaeology at the Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. She is the Director of the archaeological excavations in Tyre, Lebanon, and has written several books including The Phoenicians in the West: Politics, Colonies, and Trade and The Phoenician Cemetery of Tyre-Al Bas. Klappentext An analysis of the first colonialisms in history, tracing the eastern roots of the Phoenician colonial system in the first millennium BC. Zusammenfassung In this analysis of the first colonialisms in history! the eastern roots of the Phoenician colonial system in the first millennium BC are traced and the metropolis of Tyre is established as the final link in a long chain of colonial experiences in the ancient Near East. The book further develops the ongoing debate about the place of the economy in the ancient world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. The Debate Concerning Ancient Economy: 1. The first great debate: primitivists vs. modernists; 2. Karl Polanyi and his view of ancient economy; 3. Colonialism and cultures in contact: theorisings and critiques; 4. The place of trade in ancient economies; Part II. Trade and Colonialism in the Near East: 5. State trade vs. private initiative; 6. Uruk and the first colonialism; 7. Byblos and Egypt: reciprocity and shared ideologies; 8. The Assyrian trading circuit in Anatolia: the metropolis; 9. The Assyrian trading circuit in Anatolia: the colonies; 10. Final thoughts.

Product details

• Authors: Mara Eugenia Aubet, Maraia Eugenia Aubet, Maria Eugenia Aubet, Maria Eugenia (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Aubet, Aubet Maria Eugenia
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2013
• EAN: 9780521514170
• ISBN: 978-0-521-51417-0
• No. of pages: 424
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); prehistory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Archaeology by period / region, Mediterranean countries, Prehistoric archaeology