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Illustrations | p. xi |
Acknowledgments | p. xvii |
Introduction: What Is an (Ancient) Empire? | p. 1 |
Definition of Empire | p. 3 |
Empire, Response, and Resistance | p. 7 |
Empires, Ancient and Modern | p. 8 |
Questions, Questions, Questions | p. 9 |
Prelude to the Age of Ancient Empires | p. 10 |
The Dawn of Empire | p. 11 |
Between Amarna and Qadesh: Realpolitik Bronze Age Style | p. 23 |
Collapse of the International System | p. 29 |
The Rise of the Age of Ancient Empires | p. 33 |
The Levels of Historical Time and the Rise of the Age of Ancient Empires | p. 34 |
Climate Change and the Birth of a New Age | p. 36 |
The Neo-Assyrian Revival | p. 37 |
The Logic of Assyrian Domination | p. 42 |
The Demise of Assyrian Domination | p. 52 |
Dealing with Empires: Varieties of Responses | p. 55 |
Secondary State Formation: Urartu | p. 56 |
Coalition and Collapse: Syria and Its Neighbors | p. 62 |
Revival of EastùWest Trade: The Phoenicians/Canaanites | p. 66 |
Conflict and Covenant: Israel and Judah | p. 72 |
Beyond the Near East: The Neo-Babylonian and Early Achaemenid Persian Empires | p. 80 |
The Rise (and Fall) of the Neo-Babylonian Empire | p. 81 |
Looking Back and Looking Ahead: Neo-Babylonian Rulership in Action | p. 84 |
Interlude: The People of the Book | p. 89 |
The Enigmatic Nabonidus and the Persian Takeover | p. 90 |
The Rise of a Multiculturalist Empire: The Achaemenid Persians | p. 92 |
The Pragmatics of a Multicultural Empire | p. 98 |
Responding to Empire | p. 101 |
The Crucible of History: East Meets West | p. 103 |
The Greek Expansion and the Birth oj the Polis | p. 108 |
The Ionian Intellectual Revolution and the Limits of Persian Tolerance | p. 112 |
The Crucible oj History | p. 116 |
The Greco-Persian War | p. 118 |
Postlude: East, West, and Orientalism | p. 124 |
Democracy and Empire between Athens and Alexander | p. 126 |
A Golden Age (at Athens) | p. 128 |
Can a Democracy Run an Empire? The Peloponnesian War | p. 134 |
The Empire Strikes Back: Alexander the Great | p. 142 |
"Spear-Won" Empires: The Hellenistic Synthesis | p. 149 |
Alexander's "Funeral Games" | p. 150 |
The Hellenistic IEMP Synthesis | p. 153 |
Empire and the City | p. 159 |
The Individual in the Hellenistic World | p. 162 |
Resistance and Revolt: Mauryans and Maccabees | p. 166 |
The Western Mediterranean and the Rise of Rome | p. 173 |
The Western Mediterranean Setting | p. 176 |
Roman Beginnings: Inside and Outside | p. 181 |
The Roots of Roman Imperialism | p. 189 |
Imperium Sine Fine Roman Imperialism and the End of the Old Order | p. 199 |
Rome versus Carthage | p. 200 |
Symploké: Rome and the Hellenistic East | p. 204 |
The Late Republic and the End of the Old Order | p. 210 |
The New Political Order: The Foundations of the Principate | p. 221 |
Mr. IEMP: Octavian/Augustus | p. 222 |
PaxRomana | p. 232 |
Into the Arena: A Microcosm of Imperial Society in the Principate | p. 235 |
"Barbarians" through Roman Eyes: The Romans Encounter "the Other" | p. 239 |
Ruling and Resisting the Roman Empire | p. 244 |
Power and the Provinces | p. 246 |
The Imperial Cult and Roman Rule | p. 254 |
Resisting Roman Rule | p. 258 |
Imperial Crisis and Recovery | p. 267 |
The "Third-Century Crisis" | p. 268 |
The Rise of Christianity | p. 277 |
The Dominate: Cosmos Restored | p. 283 |
Universal Empires and Their Peripheries in Late Antiquity | p. 294 |
Roman Political and Religious Universalism | p. 295 |
Renovatio: Byzantium, the New Rome | p. 301 |
The Rise of the Sasanid Persian Empire | p. 306 |
Politics Resistance; and Heterodoxies at the Peripheries of the Empires | p. 311 |
The Formation of the Islamic World Empire | p. 319 |
The Clash of Empires and the End of the (Ancient) World | p. 322 |
The Arabs and the Rise of Islam | p. 326 |
The Umayyads: The First Islamic (and the Last Ancient) Empire | p. 332 |
Notes | p. 341 |
Further Reading | p. 347 |
Index | p. 357 |
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