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Archaeologies of Empire: Local Participants and Imperial Trajectories (School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series) - Softcover

Anna L. Boozer (editor), Bleda S. Düring (editor) & Bradley J. Parker (editor)

 
9780826361752: Archaeologies of Empire: Local Participants and Imperial Trajectories (School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0826361757 ISBN 13: 9780826361752
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, 2020

Synopsis

Throughout history, a large portion of the world's population has lived under imperial rule. Although scholars do not always agree on when and where the roots of imperialism lie, most would agree that imperial configurations have affected human history so profoundly that the legacy of ancient empires continues to structure the modern world in many ways. Empires are best described as heterogeneous and dynamic patchworks of imperial configurations in which imperial power was the outcome of the complex interaction between evolving colonial structures and various types of agents in highly contingent relationships. The goal of this volume is to harness the work of the "next generation" of empire scholars in order to foster new theoretical and methodological perspectives that are of relevance within and beyond archaeology and to foreground empires as a cross-cultural category. This book demonstrates how archaeological research can contribute to our conceptualization of empires across disciplinary boundaries.

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About the Author

Anna L. Boozer is an associate professor of Roman Mediterranean archaeology and history at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research focuses on the dynamics of imperialism in everyday life in Roman Egypt and Meroitic Sudan.

Bleda S. Düring is an associate professor in Near Eastern archaeology at Leiden University. His research focuses on the archaeology of the early Assyrian Empire and the comparative archaeology of empire.

Bradley J. Parker (1961-2018) was an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Utah and a key scholar on the archaeology of empire, investigating both the Assyrian and Andean Empires.

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Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0826361757
ISBN 13 
9780826361752
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
344