Develops a radical new world history framework for the Roman Empire, thereby breaking with the Eurocentric visions of Rome which have so far prevailed. Explores topics such as peasantries, slavery and state-formation, universal empires, cosmopolitan literatures, world trade and rebellion in the context of pre-industrial Afro-Eurasian societies.
Develops a radical new world history framework for the Roman Empire, thereby breaking with the Eurocentric visions of Rome which have so far prevailed. Explores topics such as peasantries, slavery and state-formation, universal empires, cosmopolitan literatures, world trade and rebellion in the context of pre-industrial Afro-Eurasian societies.
PETER FIBIGER BANG is Professor of Roman History at The Saxo Institute at the University of Copenhagen. He has been in the vanguard of attempts to develop a new comparative and global history perspective on the Roman Empire for the last three decades. His previous books include The Roman Bazaar (Cambridge 2008), with Dariusz Kolodziejczyk (eds.) Universal Empire (Cambridge 2012) and with C. A. Bayly & Walter Scheidel (eds.) The Oxford World History of Empire, 2 Vols (2021).
Inhaltsangabe
1. Rome and pre-colonial world history 2. The expanding world of warring states: ecology, state-formation, slavery 3. Among empires - the universal realms of the Afro-Eurasian world 4. The Imperial cosmopolis: courtly literary languages and monotheist religions 5. Premodern globalization? Transcontinental trade and the rituals of consumption in the Afro-Eurasian arena 6. Resistance, rebellion and renewal Conclusion: Beyond globalization: the world histories for Rome.
1. Rome and pre-colonial world history 2. The expanding world of warring states: ecology, state-formation, slavery 3. Among empires - the universal realms of the Afro-Eurasian world 4. The Imperial cosmopolis: courtly literary languages and monotheist religions 5. Premodern globalization? Transcontinental trade and the rituals of consumption in the Afro-Eurasian arena 6. Resistance, rebellion and renewal Conclusion: Beyond globalization: the world histories for Rome.
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