Name: Assyria: The Imperial Mission (en Inglés)
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Author: Mario Liverani
ISBN: 9781646021956

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Assyria: The Imperial Mission (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Mario Liverani

Editorial

Eisenbrauns

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

344

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

25.1 x 17.5 x 2.5 cm

Peso

0.60 kg.

ISBN13

9781646021956

Categorías

Oriente próximo
Política y gobierno
Historia social y cultural
Colonialismo e imperialismo

Assyria: The Imperial Mission (en Inglés)

Mario Liverani (Autor) · Eisenbrauns · Tapa Blanda

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In ancient traditions, Assyria was the first world empire in a series that continued with Persia, Macedonia, and Rome. After Rome, we imagine the series bifurcating into a Western trajectory (from Charlemagne to Napoleon and the Third Reich) and an Oriental trajectory (from the Parthians and Sasanians to the Abbasids until the modern Caliphate). Assyria, often overlooked or slighted by modern studies of empire, still maintains our interest because it provides an example of the "simple form" of empire and imperialism, before subsequent developments resulted in structures of greater complexity.Most important among basic features of "empire" is the "imperial mission"--the mandate given by the gods or God to the emperor to extend, through conquest or persuasion, annexation or hegemony, the only legitimate power of the central state to the entire (known) world. This accomplishment can only be ideological, since in practice no empire, ancient or modern, could actually conquer the world. Nonetheless, ancient empires could come closer to the target, because their known world, the mental map of their oikoumene, was limited to their close surroundings. Assyria, by bringing the most populated and civilized countries of its time (surrounded by mountains, seas, deserts) into submission came close to fulfilling its mission. In our modern, Western perspective, however, the term empire is usually applied to alien and despotic (mainly Oriental) polities, while we in the West prefer to belong to more democratic "alliances."Nevertheless, ancient Assyria still retains its value as a prototype of the "empire of evil" against which democracy fights and must resist. This book outlines the basic features of Assyrian imperialism within the framework of the general development of the imperial idea, all the while insisting on noting comparative material.The intent is twofold: (1) to better understand Assyria through comparison with later empires, and (2) to underscore the relevance of the "Assyrian model" and its influence on later history. Although the first intention profits ancient historians, the second goal is addressed to modern and contemporary historians, who too often ignore (or at least disregard) the long historical background lying behind more recent developments. The world in general, in the present climate of globalization, deserves to be better informed about pre-modern and non-Western trajectories of world history.

Mario Liverani

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Mario Liverani (1939) es profesor emérito de Historia del Próximo Oriente antiguo en la Universidad de Roma «La Sapienza». Antiguo director del Centro per le Antichità e la Storia dell’Arte del Vicino Oriente y del Istituto di Studi del Vicino Oriente, así como de las revistas Oriens Antiquus y Vicino Oriente, es miembro de la American Oriental Society y doctor honoriscausa por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. A su clásico Antico Oriente. Storia, società, economia (1988) se suman, entre otros muchos libros, L’origine delle città (1986), Uruk la prima città (1998), y, más recientemente, Oltre la Bibbia. Storia antica di Israele (2003) o Imaginare Babele. Due secoli di studi sulla città orientale antica (2013).

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