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Ancient Empires: From Mesopotamia to the Rise of Islam
Eric H. Cline
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Description for Ancient Empires: From Mesopotamia to the Rise of Islam
Paperback. Introduction to the ancient Near East, Mediterranean and Europe, including the Greco-Roman world, Late Antiquity and the early Muslim period. Num Pages: 386 pages, 131 b/w illus. 14 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDA; HBLA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 251 x 181 x 19. Weight in Grams: 826.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
386
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
386
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521717809
SKU
V9780521717809
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About Eric H. Cline
Eric H. Cline is Associate Professor and the Chair of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at The George Washington University. The author of more than eighty articles, his most recent books include Biblical Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction and From Eden to Exile: Unravelling Mysteries of the Bible. Mark W. Graham is Associate Professor in ... Read more
Reviews for Ancient Empires: From Mesopotamia to the Rise of Islam
'… this is a stimulating essay, one that rewards a careful reader with new insights into a variety of issues. The maps are useful and readable; other illustrative material is always clearly integrated into the narrative and appropriately placed in the text … Ancient Empires should assist academic readers, in general not just specialists in the ancient world, in posing ... Read more