| Author | : Benjamin VanWagoner |
| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2025-02-18 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1512827002 |
Unmasking Ideology in Imperial and Colonial Archaeology
| Author | : Bonnie Effros |
| Publisher | : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press |
| Total Pages | : 501 |
| Release | : 2018-12-31 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1938770617 |
This volume addresses the entanglement between archaeology, imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, and war. Popular sentiment in the West has tended to embrace the adventure rather than ponder the legacy of archaeological explorers; allegations by imperial powers of "discovering" archaeological sites or "saving" world heritage from neglect or destruction have often provided the pretext for expanding political influence. Consequently, citizens have often fallen victim to the imperial war machine, seeing their lands confiscated, their artifacts looted, and the ancient remains in their midst commercialized. Spanning the globe with case studies from East Asia, Siberia, Australia, North and South America, Europe, and Africa, sixteen contributions written by archaeologists, art historians, and historians from four continents offer unusual breadth and depth in the assessment of various claims to patrimonial heritage, contextualized by the imperial and colonial ventures of the last two centuries and their postcolonial legacy.
Empires
| Author | : Susan E. Alcock |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 554 |
| Release | : 2001-08-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521770200 |
Empires, the largest political systems of the ancient and early modern world, powerfully transformed the lives of people within and even beyond their frontiers in ways quite different from other, non-imperial societies. Appearing in all parts of the globe, and in many different epochs, empires invite comparative analysis - yet few attempts have been made to place imperial systems within such a framework. This book brings together studies by distinguished scholars from diverse academic traditions, including anthropology, archaeology, history and classics. The empires discussed include case studies from Central and South America, the Mediterranean, Europe, the Near East, South East Asia and China, and range in time from the first millennium BC to the early modern era. The book organises these detailed studies into five thematic sections: sources, approaches and definitions; empires in a wider world; imperial integration and imperial subjects; imperial ideologies; and the afterlife of empires.
Liberty and Property
| Author | : Ellen Meiksins Wood |
| Publisher | : Verso Books |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2012-02-01 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1844678423 |
The formation of the modern state, the rise of capitalism, the Renaissance and Reformation, the scientific revolution and the Age of Enlightenment have all been attributed to the “early modern” period. Nearly everything about its history remains controversial, but one thing is certain: it left a rich and provocative legacy of political ideas unmatched in Western history. The concepts of liberty, equality, property, human rights and revolution born in those turbulent centuries continue to shape, and to limit, political discourse today. Assessing the work and background of figures such as Machiavelli, Luther, Calvin, Spinoza, the Levellers, Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, Ellen Wood vividly explores the ideas of the canonical thinkers, not as philosophical abstractions but as passionately engaged responses to the social conflicts of their day.
Ancient Oaxaca
| Author | : Richard E. Blanton |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 1999-05-27 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780521577878 |
A study of social and political transformation and development of statehood in Oaxaca.
The Hebrew Bible
| Author | : Norman K. Gottwald |
| Publisher | : Fortress Press |
| Total Pages | : 434 |
| Release | : 2008-10-28 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1451415257 |
* A landmark textbook made accessible for the beginning college student * Thoroughly updated charts and graphs, reflection guides, and study questions * Richly illustrated with maps and photographs * Companion Web site features professor - and student-friendly resources
Solidarity Beyond Borders
| Author | : Janusz Salamon |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2015-09-24 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1472514440 |
Solidarity Beyond Borders is a collection on international ethics by a multidisciplinary team of scholars from four continents. The volume explores ethical and political dimensions of transnational solidarity in the emerging multipolar world. Analyzing global challenges of the world plagued by poverty, diseases, injustice, inequality and environmental degradation, the contributors - rooted in diverse cultures and ethical traditions - voice their support for 'solidarity beyond borders'. Bringing to light both universally shared ethical insights as well as the irreducible diversity of ethical perceptions of particular problems helps the reader to appreciate the chances and the challenges that the global community - more interconnected and yet more ideologically fragmented than ever before - faces in the coming decades. Solidarity Beyond Borders exemplifies an innovative approach to the key issues of global ethics which takes into account the processes of economic globalization, leading to an ever deeper interdependence of peoples and states, as well as the increasing cultural and ideological fragmentation which characterize the emerging multipolar world order.
