A Tall Order. Writing the Social History of the Ancient World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Tall Order. Writing the Social History of the Ancient World write by Jean-Jacques Aubert. This book was released on 2012-06-28. A Tall Order. Writing the Social History of the Ancient World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume commemorates the 65th birthday of William Vernon Harris (on September 13, 2003), when a group of his former students agreed to honor him with a collection of essays that would represent the wide variety of interests and influences of our advisor and friend. The fifteen papers in fact range chronologically from the first Olympics to late antiquity and discuss various questions of imperialism, law, economy, and religion in the ancient Mediterranean world. The essays share a social historical perspective from which they challenge as many commonly accepted notions in ancient history. The contributors acknowledge their intellectual debt to the formative scholarly acumen of William V. Harris, which adds up to the "tall order" of engaging with his work.
The Social History of Achaemenid Phoenicia
The Social History of Achaemenid Phoenicia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Social History of Achaemenid Phoenicia write by Vadim S. Jigoulov. This book was released on 2016-04-08. The Social History of Achaemenid Phoenicia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Even though the Persian period has attracted a fair share of scholarly interest in recent years, as yet no concerted effort has been attempted to construct a comprehensive social history of Phoenician city-states as an integral part of the Achaemenid empire. This monograph explores the evidence from Persian-period literary (both ancient Jewish and classical), epigraphic, and numismatic sources, as well as material culture remains, in order to sketch just such a history. This study examines developments in Persian-period Phoenician city-states on the three levels: that of the individual household, the city-state, and the administrative unit of the Persian empire. These three societal levels are analyzed within the contexts of economic competition between and among the Phoenician city-states, their burgeoning economic ties with the outside world, and their interaction with the Persian imperial influence in the Levant.
Blood and Money
Blood and Money - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blood and Money write by David McNally. This book was released on 2020-05-05. Blood and Money available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The history of money and its violent and oppressive origins from slavery to war—by the author of Global Slump. In most accounts of the origins of money we are offered pleasant tales in which it arises to the mutual benefit of all parties as a result of barter. But in this groundbreaking study, David McNally reveals the true story of money’s origins and development as one of violence and human bondage. Money’s emergence and its transformation are shown to be intimately connected to the buying and selling of slaves and the waging of war. Blood and Money demonstrates the ways that money has “internalized” its violent origins, making clear that it has become a concentrated force of social power and domination. Where Adam Smith observed that monetary wealth represents “command over labor,” this paradigm shifting book amends his view to define money as comprising the command over persons and their bodies. “This fascinating and informative study, rich in novel insights, treats money not as an abstraction from its social base but as deeply embedded in its essential functions and origins in brutal violence and harsh oppression.” —Noam Chomsky “A fine-grained historical analysis of the interconnection between war, enslavement, finance, and money from classical times to present.” —Jeff Noonan, author of The Troubles of Democracy “McNally casts an unsparing light on the origins of money—and capitalism itself—in this scathing, Marxist-informed account . . . . McNally builds a powerful, richly documented argument that unchecked capitalism prioritizes greed and violence over compassion . . . . [T]his searing academic treatise makes a convincing case.” —Publishers Weekly
Materialising the Roman Empire
Materialising the Roman Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Materialising the Roman Empire write by Jeremy Tanner. This book was released on 2024-03-19. Materialising the Roman Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Materialising the Roman Empire defines an innovative research agenda for Roman archaeology, highlighting the diverse ways in which the Empire was made materially tangible in the lives of its inhabitants. The volume explores how material culture was integral to the processes of imperialism, both as the Empire grew, and as it fragmented, and in doing so provide up-to-date overviews of major topics in Roman archaeology. Each chapter offers a critical overview of a major field within the archaeology of the Roman Empire. The book’s authors explore the distinctive contribution that archaeology and the study of material culture can make to our understanding of the key institutions and fields of activity in the Roman Empire. The initial chapters address major technologies which, at first glance, appear to be mechanisms of integration across the Roman Empire: roads, writing and coinage. The focus then shifts to analysis of key social structures oriented around material forms and activities found all over the Roman world, such as trade, urbanism, slavery, craft production and frontiers. Finally, the book extends to more abstract dimensions of the Roman world: art, empire, religion and ideology, in which the significant themes remain the dynamics of power and influence. The whole builds towards a broad exploration of the nature of imperial power and the inter-connections that stimulated new community identities and created new social divisions.
Rulers and Ruled in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China
Rulers and Ruled in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rulers and Ruled in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China write by Hans Beck. This book was released on 2021-02-04. Rulers and Ruled in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A comparative study of the ancient Mediterranean and Han China, seen through the lens of political culture.
