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Cosmopolitanism And Empire Universal Rulers Local Elites And Cultural Integration In The Ancient Near East And Mediterranean 1st Edition Myles Lavan

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Cosmopolitanism And Empire Universal Rulers Local Elites And Cultural Integration In The Ancient Near East And Mediterranean 1st Edition Myles Lavan instant download after payment.

Publisher: Oxford University Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 2.62 MB

Pages: 296

Author: Myles Lavan, John Weisweiler, Richard E. Payne

ISBN: 9780190465667, 9780190465674, 9780190465681, 0190465662, 0190465670, 0190465689

Language: English

Year: 2016

Edition: 1

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Cosmopolitanism And Empire Universal Rulers Local Elites And Cultural Integration In The Ancient Near East And Mediterranean 1st Edition Myles Lavan by Myles Lavan, John Weisweiler, Richard E. Payne 9780190465667, 9780190465674, 9780190465681, 0190465662, 0190465670, 0190465689 instant download after payment.

Machine generated contents note: -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- 1. Cosmopolitan Politics: The Assimilation and Subordination of Elite Cultures -- Myles Lavan, Richard Payne, John Weisweiler -- 2. Getting Confident: The Assyrian Development of Elite Recognition Ethics -- Seth Richardson -- 3. Empire Begins at Home: Local Elites and Imperial Ideologies in Hellenistic Greece and Babylonia -- Kathryn Stevens -- 4. Hellenism, Cosmopolitanism and the Role of Babylonian Elites in the Seleucid Empire -- Johannes Haubold -- 5. Towards a Translocal Elite Culture in the Ptolemaic Empire -- Christelle Fischer-Bovet -- 6. What is Imperial Cosmopolitanism? -- Tamara Chin -- 7. "Father of the Whole Human Race": Ecumenical Language and the Limits of Elite Integration in the Early Roman Empire -- Myles Lavan -- 8. Making Romans: Citizens, Subjects and Subjectivity in Republican Empire -- Clifford Ando -- 9. From Empire to World State: Ecumenical Language and Cosmopolitan Consciousness in the Later Roman Aristocracy -- John Weisweiler -- 10. Iranian Cosmopolitanism: World Religions at the Sasanian Court -- Richard Payne -- 11. "Zum ewigen Frieden": Cosmopolitanism, Comparison and Empire -- Peter Fibiger Bang -- Works cited -- Index

"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 with culturally distinct local elites, offering a comparative perspective on the varying depth and modalities of elite integration in five empires of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean. If cosmopolitanism has normally been studied apart from the imperial context, the essays gathered her