Imperial Peripheries in the Neo-Assyrian Period
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Imperial Peripheries in the Neo-Assyrian Period

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Imperial Peripheries in the Neo-Assyrian Period

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Though the Neo-Assyrian Empire has largely been conceived of as the main actor in relations between its core and periphery, recent work on the empire's peripheries has encouraged archaeologists and historians to consider dynamic models of interaction between Assyria and the polities surrounding it. Imperial Peripheries in the Neo-Assyrian Period focuses on the variability of imperial strategies and local responses to Assyrian power across time and space.
 
An international team of archaeologists and historians draws upon both new and existing evidence from excavations, surveys, texts, and material culture to highlight the strategies that the Neo-Assyrian Empire applied to manage its diverse and widespread empire as well as the mixed reception of those strategies by subjects close to and far from the center. Case studies from around the ancient Near East illustrate a remarkable variety of responses to Assyrian aggression, economic policies, and cultural influences. As a whole, the volume demonstrates both the destructive and constructive roles of empire, including unintended effects of imperialism on socioeconomic and cultural change.
 
Imperial Peripheries in the Neo-Assyrian Period aligns with the recent movement in imperial studies to replace global, top-down materialist models with theories of contingency, local agency, and bottom-up processes. Such approaches bring to the foreground the reality that the development and lifecycles of empires in general, and the Neo-Assyrian Empire in particular, cannot be completely explained by the activities of the core. The book will be welcomed by archaeologists of the Ancient Near East, Assyriologists, and scholars concerned with empires and imperial power in history.
 
Contributors: Stephanie H. Brown, Anna Cannavò, Megan Cifarelli, Erin Darby, Bleda S. Düring, Avraham Faust, Guido Guarducci, Bradley J. Parker
 

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. List of Tables
  8. Preface and Acknowledgments
  9. Abbreviations
  10. Chronology of the Ancient Near East
  11. Map-Expansion of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
  12. 2. At the Root of the Matter: The Middle Assyrian Prelude to Empire
  13. 3. Empire of Conflict, Empire of Compromise: The Middle and Neo-Assyrian Landscape and Interaction with the Local Communities of the Upper Tigris Borderland
  14. 4. The Southern Levant under the Neo-Assyrian Empire: A Comparative Perspective
  15. 5. Reaction, Reliance, Resistance? Judean Pillar Figurines in the Neo-Assyrian Levant
  16. 6. Dining under Assyrian Rule: Foodways in Iron Age Edom
  17. 7. Peripheral Elite as Imperial Collaborators
  18. 8. East of Assyria? Hasanlu and the Problem of Assyrianization
  19. 9. In the Middle of the Sea of the Setting Sun: The Neo-Assyrian Empire and Cyprus—Economic and Political Perspectives
  20. 10. Neo-Pericentrics
  21. About the Contributors
  22. Index