Cosmopolitanism and Empire: Universal Rulers, Local Elites, and Cultural Integration in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean

by John Weisweiler, Richard E Payne, Myles Lavan, et al.

The empires of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean invented cosmopolitan politics. In the first millennia BCE and CE, a succession of territorially extensive states incorporated populations of unprecedented cultural diversity. Cosmopolitanism and Empire traces the development of cultural techniques through which empires managed difference in order to establish effective, enduring regimes of domination. It focuses on the relations of imperial elites...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190465662
• ISBN13: 9780190465667
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"