Making Mesopotamia

by Cameron, Hamish

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Title Statements

Full title :Making Mesopotamia

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2019.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Brill
Place of Publication:Boston
Language:eng
Publication Date:2019.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (387 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789004388635, 900438863X
oclc:on1083467337
LC Classification:DS70.63
Dewey Decimal:935/.064

Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; Maps; A Note on the Maps; Chapter 1 Introducing the Borderland; 1 What is a Borderland?; 2 Where is the Mesopotamian Borderland?; 3 A Borderland Emerges; 4 Who "Made" Mesopotamia?; 5 Outlining the Narrative; Part 1 Tradition and Narrative; Chapter 2 Knowing; 1 Strabo's Sources; 2 Pliny's Sources; 3 Ptolemy's Sources; 4 Spatial Measurement; 5 Hellenistic Knowledge; Chapter 3 Naming; 1 Strabo's Assyria; 2 Pliny; 3 Claudius Ptolemy; 4 The Expositio Totius Mundi et Gentium; 5 Ammianus Marcellinus; 6 Labels and Limits; Chapter 4 Narrating; 1 Strabo

2 Pliny the Elder3 Ptolemy; 4 Expositio Totius Mundi et Gentium; 5 Ammianus; 6 Narrating Topologically; 7 Narrating Imperially; Chapter 5 Moving; 1 Skenitai; 2 Gordyaians; 3 Arranging People; 4 Hellenistic Migration; 5 Viewing Space; 6 Individual Mobility; Part 2 Movement and Power; Chapter 6 Carrying; 1 Long-distance Trade; 2 Strabo and the Euphrates Route; 3 Northern Routes; 4 Expositio Totius Mundi et Gentium; 5 Desert Routes; 6 North-South Routes; 7 Local Routes; 8 Representing Mesopotamian Trade; Chapter 7 Ruling; 1 Roman Power in the Borderland; 2 Representing Power; 3 Imperial Space

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Borderlands Borderlands -- History -- To 1500. -- I… Borderlands -- History. -- Rome Classical geography in literature Criticism, interpretation, etc Géographie ancienne dans la littérature Geography, Ancient, in literature History Imperialism in literature Impérialisme dans la littérature Iran Latin literature Latin literature -- History and critici… Littérature latine -- Histoire et criti… Régions frontalières -- Histoire. -- Ro… Rome (Empire) To 1500