Cultural History of Western Empires in Antiquity

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

This volume examines the cultural history of ancient Mediterranean empires, and focuses on the Roman Empire; the prototypical empire in western history and imagination. A wide-ranging introduction examines the nexus of state-formation and culture in the ancient Mediterranean world, from the rise of civilization in Mesopotamia to the fall of the Roman Empire in late antiquity.Written by an expert team of scholars this first volume examines war and resistance, different engines of economic performance and social and geographical mobility in the Mediterranean, slavery and social control, lived experience and the imperial discourses of race and identity, and the geographical and ecological settings in which the cultural histories of the Roman world played out. Together these chapters offer a bold new account of the Roman Empire, juxtaposing key topics that are not always considered together under the rubric of “culture.”Richly-illustrated with images of monuments, statues, sculptures, mosaics, paintings, coins, and other colorful artefacts of ancient material culture, this volume reveals how the deep structures of imperial power and authority shaped everything from the labour and movements of the Roman Empire’s mostly anonymous subjects to their sexualities and consciousness.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-07-01
Mått:170 x 248 x 20 mm
Vikt:660 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cultural Histories Series
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781474242585

Utforska kategorier

Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Forntidens historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Romarna inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Carlos F. Noreña is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He is author of Imperial Ideals in the Roman West (2011), co-editor of From Document to History: Epigraphic Insights into the Greco-Roman World (2018) and The Emperor and Rome: Space, Representation, and Ritual (2010). He is currently working on a book on law, empire and political culture in the Roman Republic.

Recensioner i media

Each volume could successfully stand alone as a reference work on an era: Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Age of Enlightenment, the Age of Empire, and the Modern Age ... The introductory essay to each is a valuable resource for comparing traditional political and economic histories with the more critical and cultural works presented in subsequent chapters. Accompanying each volume is a list of illustrations, notes, further reading, and an index ... Overall, students seeking a comparative, interdisciplinary, and compelling account of the spread of Western empires will find much of interest here. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty

Innehållsförteckning

General Editor's Preface, Antoinette Burton (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)Introduction, Carlos F. Noreña, (University of California Berkeley, USA)1. War, Michael Taylor, (University of Texas at Austin, USA)2. Trade, Sitta von Reden, (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany)3. Natural Worlds, Nicholas Purcell, (University of Oxford, UK)4. Labor, Elio Lo Cascio, (Universita di Roma, Italy)5. Mobility, Sailakshmi Ramgopal, (University of Chicago, USA)6. Sexuality, Caroline Vout, (University of Cambridge, UK)7. Resistance, Lisa Pilar Eberle, (University of Oxford, UK)8. Race, Emma Dench, (Harvard University, USA)NotesFurther ReadingNotes on ContributorsIndex