Cosmopolitanism and Empire: Universal Rulers, Local Elites, and Cultural Integration in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean (Oxford Studies in Early Empires)

Myles Lavan (Editor), Richard E. Payne (Editor), John Weisweiler (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0190465662 / ISBN 13: 9780190465667

Published by OUP, 2016

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282 pp A Fine fresh copy in a crisp complete dust jacket. No previous ownership markings.Traces the development of cosmopolitan cultural techniques through which ancient empires managed difference in order to establish regimes of domination.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cosmopolitanism and Empire: Universal Rulers, Local Elites, and Cultural Integration in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean (Oxford Studies in Early Empires)
• Publisher: OUP
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0190465662
• ISBN 13: 9780190465667
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Weight: 20 ounces

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Synopsis

Cosmopolitanism and Empire traces the development of cosmopolitan cultural techniques through which ancient empires managed difference in order to establish regimes of domination. Its case studies of Near Eastern and Mediterranean empires combine to demonstrate the centrality of cosmopolitanism to the establishment and endurance of trans-cultural political orders.

About the Author

Myles Lavan is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of St. Andrews and author of Slaves to Rome: Paradigms of Empire in Roman Culture.

Richard E. Payne is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor at the Oriental Institute and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago and author of A State of Mixture: Christians, Zoroastrians, and Iranian Political Culture in Late Antiquity.

John Weisweiler is Assistant Professor in the Department of Ancient History at the University of Tübingen.