Archaeologies Of Empire

Author : Susan E. Alcock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0521770203

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Empires by Susan E. Alcock Pdf

Empires, the largest political systems of the ancient and early modern world, powerfully transformed the lives of people within and even beyond their frontiers in ways quite different from other, non-imperial societies. Appearing in all parts of the globe, and in many different epochs, empires invite comparative analysis - yet few attempts have been made to place imperial systems within such a framework. This book brings together studies by distinguished scholars from diverse academic traditions, including anthropology, archaeology, history and classics. The empires discussed include case studies from Central and South America, the Mediterranean, Europe, the Near East, South East Asia and China, and range in time from the first millennium BC to the early modern era. The book organises these detailed studies into five thematic sections: sources, approaches and definitions; empires in a wider world; imperial integration and imperial subjects; imperial ideologies; and the afterlife of empires.

Author : Anna Lucille Boozer,Bradley J. Parker,Bleda S. Düring
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 9780826361752

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Archaeologies of Empire by Anna Lucille Boozer,Bradley J. Parker,Bleda S. Düring Pdf

Throughout history, a large portion of the world's population has lived under imperial rule. Although scholars do not always agree on when and where the roots of imperialism lie, most would agree that imperial configurations have affected human history so profoundly that the legacy of ancient empires continues to structure the modern world in many ways. Empires are best described as heterogeneous and dynamic patchworks of imperial configurations in which imperial power was the outcome of the complex interaction between evolving colonial structures and various types of agents in highly contingent relationships. The goal of this volume is to harness the work of the "next generation" of empire scholars in order to foster new theoretical and methodological perspectives that are of relevance within and beyond archaeology and to foreground empires as a cross-cultural category. This book demonstrates how archaeological research can contribute to our conceptualization of empires across disciplinary boundaries.

Author : Parker VanValkenburgh
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816532636

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Alluvium and Empire by Parker VanValkenburgh Pdf

Alluvium and Empire examines the archaeology of Indigenous communities and landscapes that were subject to Spanish colonial forced resettlement during the sixteenth century. Written at the intersections of history and archaeology, the book critiques previous approaches to the study of empire and models a genealogical approach that attends to the open-ended--and often unpredictable--ways in which empires take shape.

Author : Lori Khatchadourian
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520290525

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Imperial Matter by Lori Khatchadourian Pdf

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s new open access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. What is the role of the material world in shaping the tensions and paradoxes of imperial sovereignty? Scholars have long shed light on the complex processes of conquest, extraction, and colonialism under imperial rule. But imperialism has usually been cast as an exclusively human drama, one in which the world of matter does not play an active role. Lori Khatchadourian argues instead that things—from everyday objects to monumental buildings—profoundly shape social and political life under empire. Out of the archaeology of ancient Persia and the South Caucasus, Imperial Matter advances powerful new analytical approaches to the study of imperialism writ large and should be read by scholars working on empire across the humanities and social sciences.

Author : Gregory E. Areshian
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938770517

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Empires and Diversity by Gregory E. Areshian Pdf

For more than four thousand years, empires have been geographically the largest polities on Earth, shaping in many respects the human past and present in different epochs and on different continents. Covering the time span from the second millennium B.C.E. to the sixteenth century C.E., and geographic areas from China to South America, the case studies included in this volume demonstrate the necessity to combine perspectives from the longue duree and global comparativism with the theory of agency and an understanding of specific contexts for human actions. Contributions from leading scholars examine salient aspects of the Hittite, Assyrian, Ancient Egyptian, Achaemenid and Sasanian Iranian, Zhou to Han Dynasty Chinese, Inka, and Mughal empires.

Author : Christine Beaule,John G. Douglass
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816540846

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The Global Spanish Empire by Christine Beaule,John G. Douglass Pdf

The Spanish Empire was a complex web of places and peoples. Through an expansive range of essays that look at Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Caribbean, and the Pacific, this volume brings a broad range of regions into conversation. The contributors focus on nuanced, comparative exploration of the processes and practices of creating, maintaining, and transforming cultural place making within pluralistic Spanish colonial communities. The Global Spanish Empire argues that patterned variability is necessary in reconstructing Indigenous cultural persistence in colonial settings. The volume’s eleven case studies include regions often neglected in the archaeology of Spanish colonialism. The time span under investigation is extensive as well, transcending the entirety of the Spanish Empire, from early impacts in West Africa to Texas during the 1800s. The contributors examine the making of a social place within a social or physical landscape. They discuss the appearance of hybrid material culture, the incorporation of foreign goods into local material traditions, the continuation of local traditions, and archaeological evidence of opportunistic social climbing. In some cases, these changes in material culture are ways to maintain aspects of traditional culture rather than signifiers of new cultural practices. The Global Spanish Empire tackles broad questions about Indigenous cultural persistence, pluralism, and place making using a global comparative perspective grounded in the shared experience of Spanish colonialism. Contributors Stephen Acabado Grace Barretto-Tesoro James M. Bayman Christine D. Beaule Christopher R. DeCorse Boyd M. Dixon John G. Douglass William R. Fowler Martin Gibbs Corinne L. Hofman Hannah G. Hoover Stacie M. King Kevin Lane Laura Matthew Sandra Montón-Subías Natalia Moragas Segura Michelle M. Pigott Christopher B. Rodning David Roe Roberto Valcárcel Rojas Steve A. Tomka Jorge Ulloa Hung Juliet Wiersema

Author : Mita Choudhury
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : English literature
ISBN : 0815363656

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Nation-Space in Enlightenment Britain by Mita Choudhury Pdf

Nation-Space in Enlightenment Britain: An Archaeology of Empire is a provocative intervention that extends considerably the parameters of on-going dialogues about British identity during the Enlightenment. Thoughtfully interdisciplinary and with an allegiance to the culture which literary production engenders, this book describes how British identity emerges not despite of but due to its fluid, volatile, and subversive impulses and expressions. The imperial establishment--codified in the logics of the corporation, the academy, the cathedral, the theater, as well the private parlor or garden--derives its power and sustainability from scripting and then championing a solid resistance to precisely those subversive elements which threaten or undermine the foundations of order and liberalism in civil society. Choudhury argues that imperial Britain can best be understood in terms of this culture's investment in spatial alignments which celebrated a radial interface with remote points of commercial interest. The volume contends Daniel Defoe, Arthur Onslow, David Garrick, Joseph Banks, Daniel Solander, Hans Sloane, Francis Barber, Samuel Johnson, Charles Burney, George Frideric Handel were not merely part of a dazzling line-up of the architects of empire. In retrospect, their contributions and various engagements reflect remarkably modern patterns of the corporatization of culture and this culture's dependence on, and thus its collusion with, commerce. e corporatization of culture and this culture's dependence on, and thus its collusion with, commerce.

Author : Terence N. D'Altroy,Christine A. Hastorf
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780306471926

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Empire and Domestic Economy by Terence N. D'Altroy,Christine A. Hastorf Pdf

The Upper Mantaro Archaeological Research Project is a benchmark for a new level of quality in Andean archaeological research. This volume continues to develop UMARP approaches to understanding prehistoric Andean economy and polity. --

Author : Barbara Hausmair,Ben Jervis,Ruth Nugent,Eleanor Williams
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785337666

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Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation by Barbara Hausmair,Ben Jervis,Ruth Nugent,Eleanor Williams Pdf

How can we study the impact of rules on the lives of past people using archaeological evidence? To answer this question, Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation presents case studies drawn from across Europe and the United States. Covering areas as diverse as the use of space in a nineteenth-century U.S. Army camp, the deposition of waste in medieval towns, the experiences of Swedish migrants to North America, the relationship between people and animals in Anglo-Saxon England, these case studies explore the use of archaeological evidence in understanding the relationship between rules, lived experience, and social identity.

Author : Tamara L. Bray
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780306482465

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The Archaeology and Politics of Food and Feasting in Early States and Empires by Tamara L. Bray Pdf

This volume examines the commensal politics of early states and empires and offers a comparative perspective on how food and feasting have figured in the political calculus of archaic states in both the Old and New Worlds. It provides a cross-cultural and comparative analysis for scholars and graduate students concerned with the archaeology of complex societies, the anthropology of food and feasting, ancient statecraft, archaeological approaches to micro-political processes, and the social interpretation of prehistoric pottery.

Author : Bleda S. Düring,Tesse D. Stek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 131663924X

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The Archaeology of Imperial Landscapes by Bleda S. Düring,Tesse D. Stek Pdf

The Archaeology of Imperial Landscapes examines the transformation of rural landscapes and societies that formed the backbone of ancient empires in the Near East and Mediterranean. Through a comparative approach to archaeological data, it analyses the patterns of transformation in widely differing imperial contexts in the ancient world. Bringing together a range of studies by an international team of scholars, the volume shows that empires were dynamic, diverse, and experimental polities, and that their success or failure was determined by a combination of forceful interventions, as well as the new possibilities for those dominated by empires to collaborate and profit from doing so. By highlighting the processes that occur in rural and peripheral landscapes, the volume demonstrates that the archaeology of these non-urban and literally eccentric spheres can provide an important contribution to our understanding of ancient empires. The 'bottom up' approach to the study of ancient empires is crucial to understanding how these remarkable socio-political organisms could exist and persist.

Author : Charles Anthony Stewart,Thomas W. Davis,Annemarie Weyl Carr
Publisher : American Society of Overseas Research
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0897570731

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Cyprus and the Balance of Empires by Charles Anthony Stewart,Thomas W. Davis,Annemarie Weyl Carr Pdf

Between 491 and 1191 AD, Cyprus was influenced by various political and cultural centers that vied for dominance in the Eastern Mediterranean. This collection of essays primarily focuses on the island's archaeology when it was governed by the Byzantine capital of Constantinople. Greek and Orthodox Christian identity was cultivated during this period, which provided a sense of unity among the various provinces; and yet, the surviving historical and archaeological data concerning Cyprus is unique in that it expresses both local and regional characteristics. By investigating the various threads, whether textual, numismatic, architectural, or artistic, narrative has emerged that challenges our past assumptions. The themes covered in this volume developed from a conference held in Nicosia, organized by the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute [CAARI] celebrating the 50th year anniversary of the Republic of Cyprus. An international group of experts explored several themes such as: the impact of recent archaeological discoveries; the shift from studying Late Antique urbanism to rural development; indicators of Cypriot identity; shifts in population settlement, production, and trade; cultural interaction between Islam and Christianity; the significance of ceramic and numismatic evidence; monumental figural arts and their iconographical interpretation. The resulting chapters provide new and previously unpublished data, and should be considered a major contribution to Late Antique and Medieval studies.

Author : Siân Alyce Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Material culture
ISBN : 1407358472

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On the Edge of Empire by Siân Alyce Thomas Pdf

This volume explores the relationship between people and material culture in the south-west peninsula from the first century BC to the fifth century AD. This area has often been ignored in the narratives of Britannia and the application of traditional theoretical models to the archaeology of the region has perpetuated the idea that it was largely 'un-Romanised'. In recent years new theoretical concepts have been developed which recognise that interactions in the provinces were far more complex than the simplistic dichotomy of Roman versus Native. More emphasis is also being placed on artefacts and their use in the creation of identity. This work builds on this and explores the relationship between material culture and the creation of identity.

Author : Henry P. Colburn
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781474452380

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Archaeology of Empire in Achaemenid Egypt by Henry P. Colburn Pdf

A study of the material culture of Egypt during the period of Achaemenid Persian rule, c. 526-404 BCEProvides a clear overview of the archaeological evidence for Achaemenid Egypt, including temples, tombs, irrigation works, statues, stelae, seals and coinsDemonstrates how different types of evidence, both textual and archaeological - including material of uncertain provenance - can be used to address a single historical questionOffers critical discussion of the dating criteria used by archaeologists for Egyptian Late Period materialElucidates strategies used by the Persians to establish and maintain control of EgyptExamines how these strategies may have affected the lives of people living in Egypt during the 27th DynastyCreates a new explanatory model for the introduction of coinage to ancient EgyptPrevious studies have characterised Achaemenid rule of Egypt either as ephemeral and weak or oppressive and harsh. These characterisations, however, are based on the perceived lack of evidence for this period, filtered through ancient and modern preconceptions about the Persians.Henry Colburn challenges these views by assembling and analyzing the archaeological remains from this period, including temples, tombs, irrigation works, statues, stelae, sealings, drinking vessels and coins. By looking at the decisions made about material culture - by Egyptians, Persians and others - it becomes possible to see both how the Persians integrated Egypt into their empire and the full range of experiences people had as a result.

Author : Zainab Bahrani,Zeynep Çelik,Edhem Eldem
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 9944731277

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Scramble for the Past by Zainab Bahrani,Zeynep Çelik,Edhem Eldem Pdf