Rome, China, and the Barbarians - Ethnographic Traditions and the Transformation of Empires

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Ethnography in the Classical Age; 2. The Barbarian and Barbarian antitheses; 3. Ethnography in a post-Classical Age: the ethnographic tradition in the Wars of Procopius and in the Jin shu ¿¿; 4. New Emperors and ethnographic clothes: the representation of Barbarian rulers; 5. The confluence of ethnographic discourse and political legitimacy: rhetorical arguments on the legitimacy of Barbarian kingdoms; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Randolph B. Ford currently teaches Roman history at the State University of New York, Albany. He has previously taught Roman history, Rome-China comparative history, and Latin language at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He obtained his doctorate at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, where his dissertation received the Dean's Outstanding Dissertation in the Humanities Award. His research has concentrated on comparative approaches to the study of the Greco-Roman world and ancient China.

Product details

• Authors: Randolph B. Ford, Randolph B. (State University of New York Ford
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781108473958
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47395-8
• No. of pages: 388
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; China, Asiatische Geschichte, HISTORY / Ancient / General, History - General History, HISTORY / Asia / China, Ancient History, Asian History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE