{"product_id":"centre-and-periphery-in-the-ancient-world-9780521108423","title":"Centre and Periphery in the Ancient World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collaborative volume is concerned with long-term social change. Envisaging individual societies as interlinked and interdependent parts of a global social system, the aim of the contributors is to determine the extent to which ancient societies were shaped over time by their incorporation in - or resistance to - the larger system.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface; Part I. Theoretical Perspectives: 1. Centre and periphery: a review of a concept Michael Rowlands; Part II. Regional Systems and the Genesis of Dependency: 2. The ancient economy, transferable technologies and the Bronze Age world-system: a view from the north-eastern frontier of the Ancient Near East Phil Kohl; 3. Cedar forest to silver mountain: social change and the development of long-distance trade in early Near Eastern societies Leon Marfoe; 4. On tracking cultural transfers in prehistory: the case of Egypt and lower Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC P. R. S. Moorey; Part III. Regional Interaction and Crisis: 5. Commercial networks in the Ancient Near East Mogens Trolle Larsen; 6. Aspects of ceremonial exchange in the Near East during the late second millennium BC Carlo Zaccagnini; 7. The collapse of the Near Eastern regional system at the end of the Bronze Age: the case of Syria Mario Liverani; 8. Centre and periphery in Bronze Age Scandinavia Kristian Kristiansen; Part IV. Imperial Expansion and its Hinterland: zonal contrasts: 9. Imperial expansion under the Roman Republic Daphne Nash; 10. Culture process on the periphery: Belgic Gaul and Rome during the late Republic and early Empire Colin Haselgrove; 11. Empire, frontier and the barbarian hinterland: Rome and northern Europe from AD 1–400 Lotte Hedeager; Bibliography; Index.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767599268183,"sku":"9780521108423","price":31.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/centre-and-periphery-in-the-ancient-world-9780521108423","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}