Globalisation and the Roman World: World History, Connectivity and Material Culture - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1107619009 ISBN 13: 9781107619005

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2016

Riassunto

This book explores a new perspective for understanding the Roman world, using connectivity as a major point of departure. Globalisation is apparent in increased flows of objects, people and ideas and in the creation of translocal consciousness in everyday life. Based on these criteria, there is a case for globalisation in the ancient Roman world. Essential for anyone interested in Romanisation, this volume provides the first sustained critical exploration of globalisation theories in Roman archaeology and history. It is written by an international group of scholars who address a broad range of subjects, including Roman imperialism, economics, consumption, urbanism, migration, visual culture and heritage. The contributors explore the implications of understanding material culture in an interconnected Roman world, highlighting several novel directions for future research.

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Descrizione del libro:

This book applies modern theories of globalisation to the ancient Roman world, creating new understandings of Roman archaeology and history. This is the first book to intensely scrutinise the subject through a team of international specialists studying a wide range of topics, including imperialism, economics, migration, urbanism and art.

L'autore:

Martin Pitts is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter. Specialising in the quantitative analysis of consumption patterns, his research addresses the origins of mass consumption and the role of artefacts in large-scale historical processes and how such processes impacted on local cultural practices. Although his focus is on the northwestern Roman Empire, he has also published on consumption in the seventeenth, eighteenth and twentieth centuries. He is co-author, with Dominic Perring, of Alien Cities: Consumption and the Origins of Urbanism in Roman Britain. He has published articles in the American Journal of Archaeology, the European Journal of Archaeology, the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, Britannia, and the Journal of World-Systems Research.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1107619009
• ISBN 13: 9781107619005
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 308
• Redattore: Pitts Martin