Ancient Empires

Ancient Empires is a relatively brief yet comprehensive & even-handed overview of the ancient Near East, the Mediterranean & Europe, including the Greco-Roman world, late antiquity & the early Muslim period. Taking a focused & 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 & imperialism as well as modes of response & resistance, it's relevant to current discussions about order, justice & freedom. The book concludes that some of the ancient world's most enduring ideas, value systems & institutions were formulated by peoples who were resisting the great empires. It analyzes the central, if problematic, connection between political & ideological power in both empire formation & resistance. The intricate interrelations among ideological, economic, military & political power are explored for every empire & resisting group.

• Author
• Eric H. Cline, Mark W. Graham

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 386

• Publisher
• Cambridge University Press (NYC)

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780521717809

• Genres
• history

• Release date
• 2011