Migration, Mobility and Place in Ancient Italy
Elena Isayev
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hardcover. This book examines the nature of human mobility, attitudes to it, and constructions of place in Italy over the last millennium BC. Num Pages: 502 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1QDA; HBLA1; HBTB; HDDK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 174. .
Migration, Mobility and Place in Ancient Italy challenges prevailing conceptions of a natural tie to the land and a demographically settled world. It argues that much human mobility in the last millennium BC was ongoing and cyclical. In particular, outside the military context 'the foreigner in our midst' was not regarded as a problem. Boundaries of status rather than of geopolitics were those difficult to cross. The book discusses the stories of individuals and migrant groups, traders, refugees, expulsions, the founding and demolition of sites, and the political processes that could both encourage and discourage the transfer of people from ... Read more
Migration, Mobility and Place in Ancient Italy challenges prevailing conceptions of a natural tie to the land and a demographically settled world. It argues that much human mobility in the last millennium BC was ongoing and cyclical. In particular, outside the military context 'the foreigner in our midst' was not regarded as a problem. Boundaries of status rather than of geopolitics were those difficult to cross. The book discusses the stories of individuals and migrant groups, traders, refugees, expulsions, the founding and demolition of sites, and the political processes that could both encourage and discourage the transfer of people from ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
542
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107130616
SKU
V9781107130616
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About Elena Isayev
Elena Isayev is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Exeter. She is the author of Inside Ancient Lucania: Dialogues in History and Archaeology (2007) and co-editor of Ancient Italy: Regions without Boundaries (with G. Bradley and C. Riva, 2007). In support of her research into ancient mobility she has held the Davis Fellowship at Princeton University, New ... Read more
Reviews for Migration, Mobility and Place in Ancient Italy
'... highly important and innovative ... Isayev's book is undoubtedly a major contribution to the entire field of Classics. Apart from making its case quite brilliantly, it breaks with a number of self-imposed limitations and restrictions (of disciplines, methods, periods, regions ...) that have shaped and continue to shape much of Classical scholarship. This book is groundbreaking in the way ... Read more