Author: Ania Loomba
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ISBN: 9781474207317
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
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Author: Antoinette M. Burton
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Category : Civilization
Languages : en
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Author: Antoinette M. Burton
Publisher: Cultural Histories
ISBN: 1474242596
Category : History
Languages : en
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A Cultural History of Western Empires presents historians, and scholars and students of related fields, with the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of empire from ancient times to modernity. With six highly illustrated volumes covering 2500 years, this is the definitive reference work on the subject. This volume explores the cultural history of empire in the Middle Ages, covering: War, Trade, Natural worlds, Labor, Mobility, Sexuality, Resistance and Race.

Author: Antoinette M. Burton
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Category : Civilization
Languages : en
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ISBN: 1350358231
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Author: Antoinette M. Burton
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Category : Civilization
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Author: Ian Coller
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ISBN: 9781474207287
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
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Author: Carlos F. Noreña
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN: 1350358207
Category : Civilization, Ancient
Languages : en
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Written by an expert team of scholars this first volume examines war and resistance, different engines of economic performance and social and geographical mobility in the Mediterranean, slavery and social control, lived experience and the imperial discourses of race and identity, and the geographical and ecological settings in which the cultural histories of the Roman world played out. Together these chapters offer a bold new account of the Roman Empire, juxtaposing key topics that are not always considered together under the rubric of "culture."A Cultural History of Western Empires in Antiquity examines the cultural history of ancient Mediterranean empires, and focuses on the Roman Empire; the prototypical empire in western history and imagination. A wide-ranging introduction examines the nexus of state-formation and culture in the ancient Mediterranean world, from the rise of civilization in Mesopotamia to the fall of the Roman Empire in late antiquity.Richly-illustrated with images of monuments, statues, sculptures, mosaics, paintings, coins, and other colorful artefacts of ancient material culture, this volume reveals how the deep structures of imperial power and authority shaped everything from the labour and movements of the Roman Empire's mostly anonymous subjects to their sexualities and consciousness.

Author: Kirsten McKenzie
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN: 1350358258
Category : Civilization, Western
Languages : en
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Between 1800 and 1920, the territory and influence claimed by Western empires came to cover a larger portion of the globe than at any time before or since. Why and how did this happen? What were the consequences of this unprecedented scramble for dominion? What methods have historians used to understand the increasingly large and structurally complex Western empires that emerged across the long 19th century?In this fifth volume, A Cultural History of Western Empires in the Age of Empire, we trace these questions across a period bookended by two devastating global wars. The forces that enabled unparalleled Western expansion were likewise violent. Often no less traumatically, the phenomenon was also one of cultural exchange and negotiated identities in which both colonized and colonizer were repeatedly made and remade. As cultural historians we locate the power struggles of empire as much in identity and ways of life as in the movement of armies or the signing of treaties. New technologies of communication, transport and warfare brought an 'Age of Empire' into existence for the West. But it was equally grounded in new ways of thinking about human difference and new beliefs about the state's power to intervene in the most intimate domains of human behavior.