Name: Ancient Empires: From Mesopotamia to the Rise of Islam
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Author: Eric H. Cline
ISBN: 9780521717809

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Ancient Empires: From Mesopotamia to the Rise of Islam

Type

Physical Book

Author

Eric H. Cline

Mark W. Graham

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Year

2011

Language

English

Pages

368

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

25.1 x 17.5 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.70 kg.

ISBN13

9780521717809

Edition No.

Synopsis "Ancient Empires: From Mesopotamia to the Rise of Islam "

Ancient Empires is a relatively brief yet comprehensive and even-handed overview of the ancient Near East, the Mediterranean, and Europe, including the Greco-Roman world, Late Antiquity, and the early Muslim period. Taking a focused and thematic approach, it aims to provoke a discussion of an explicit set of themes supplemented by the reading of ancient sources. By focusing on empires and imperialism as well as modes of response and resistance, it is relevant to current discussions about order, justice, and freedom. The book concludes that some of the ancient world's most enduring ideas, value systems, and institutions were formulated by peoples who were resisting the great empires. It analyzes the central, if problematic, connection between political and ideological power in both empire formation and resistance. The intricate interrelations among ideological, economic, military, and political power are explored for every empire and resisting group.

Eric H. Cline

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Eric H. Cline is a professor of classics and anthropology at George Washington University. He is the author of 1177 B.C. The Year Civilization Collapsed (2016) and Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology (2018), both published by Critica.

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