Centre and periphery in the ancient world
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Centre and periphery in the ancient world
(New directions in archaeology)
Cambridge University Press, 1987
- : pbk
Available at 29 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 141-153
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This collaborative volume is concerned with long-term social change. Envisaging individual societies as interlinked and interdependent parts of a global social system, the aim of the contributors is to determine the extent to which ancient societies were shaped over time by their incorporation in - or resistance to - the larger system. Their particular concern is the dependent relationship between technically and socially more developed societies with a strong state ideology at the centre and the simpler societies that functioned principally as sources of raw materials and manpower on the periphery of the system. The papers in the first part of the book are all concerned with political developments in the Ancient Near East and the notion of a regional system as a framework for analysis. Part 2 examines the problems of conceptualising local societies as discrete centres of development in the context of both the Near East and prehistoric Europe during the second millennium BC. Part 3 then presents a comprehensive analytical study of the Roman Empire as a single system showing how its component parts often relate to each other in uneven, even contradictory, ways.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Part I. Theoretical Perspectives: 1. Centre and periphery: a review of a concept Michael Rowlands
- Part II. Regional Systems and the Genesis of Dependency: 2. The ancient economy, transferable technologies and the Bronze Age world-system: a view from the north-eastern frontier of the Ancient Near East Phil Kohl
- 3. Cedar forest to silver mountain: social change and the development of long-distance trade in early Near Eastern societies Leon Marfoe
- 4. On tracking cultural transfers in prehistory: the case of Egypt and lower Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC P. R. S. Moorey
- Part III. Regional Interaction and Crisis: 5. Commercial networks in the Ancient Near East Mogens Trolle Larsen
- 6. Aspects of ceremonial exchange in the Near East during the late second millennium BC Carlo Zaccagnini
- 7. The collapse of the Near Eastern regional system at the end of the Bronze Age: the case of Syria Mario Liverani
- 8. Centre and periphery in Bronze Age Scandinavia Kristian Kristiansen
- Part IV. Imperial Expansion and its Hinterland: zonal contrasts: 9. Imperial expansion under the Roman Republic Daphne Nash
- 10. Culture process on the periphery: Belgic Gaul and Rome during the late Republic and early Empire Colin Haselgrove
- 11. Empire, frontier and the barbarian hinterland: Rome and northern Europe from AD 1-400 Lotte Hedeager
- Bibliography
- Index.
by "Nielsen BookData"