Centre and Periphery in the Ancient World

Klappentext This collaborative volume is concerned with long-term social change. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Part I. Theoretical Perspectives: 1. Centre and periphery: a review of a concept Michael Rowlands; Part II. Regional Systems and the Genesis of Dependency: 2. The ancient economy, transferable technologies and the Bronze Age world-system: a view from the north-eastern frontier of the Ancient Near East Phil Kohl; 3. Cedar forest to silver mountain: social change and the development of long-distance trade in early Near Eastern societies Leon Marfoe; 4. On tracking cultural transfers in prehistory: the case of Egypt and lower Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC P. R. S. Moorey; Part III. Regional Interaction and Crisis: 5. Commercial networks in the Ancient Near East Mogens Trolle Larsen; 6. Aspects of ceremonial exchange in the Near East during the late second millennium BC Carlo Zaccagnini; 7. The collapse of the Near Eastern regional system at the end of the Bronze Age: the case of Syria Mario Liverani; 8. Centre and periphery in Bronze Age Scandinavia Kristian Kristiansen; Part IV. Imperial Expansion and its Hinterland: zonal contrasts: 9. Imperial expansion under the Roman Republic Daphne Nash; 10. Culture process on the periphery: Belgic Gaul and Rome during the late Republic and early Empire Colin Haselgrove; 11. Empire, frontier and the barbarian hinterland: Rome and northern Europe from AD 1-400 Lotte Hedeager; Bibliography; Index.

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• Autori: Kristian Kristiansen, Kristiansen Kristian, Mogens Larsen, Larsen Mogens, Michael Rowlands, Michael J Rowlands, Michael J. Rowlands, Michael John Rowlands, Michael John Larsen Rowlands
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 09.04.2009
• EAN: 9780521108423
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10842-3
• Pagine: 168
• Serie: New Directions in Archaeology; New Directions in Archaeology
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Antichità; prehistory, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, General & world history, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, General and world history, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory