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dc.contributor.authorAltaweel, Mark
dc.contributor.authorSquitieri, Andrea
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-10T12:58:18Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.date.submitted2018-01-01 23:55:55
dc.date.submitted2019-01-11 13:45:08
dc.date.submitted2020-04-01T13:03:24Z
dc.identifier644642
dc.identifierOCN: 1028993193
dc.identifierhttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30630
dc.identifier.urihttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36518
dc.description.abstractThis book investigates the long-term continuity of large-scale states and empires, and its effect on the Near East’s social fabric, including the fundamental changes that occurred to major social institutions. Its geographical coverage spans, from east to west, modern-day Libya and Egypt to Central Asia, and from north to south, Anatolia to southern Arabia, incorporating modern-day Oman and Yemen. Its temporal coverage spans from the late eighth century BCE to the seventh century CE during the rise of Islam and collapse of the Sasanian Empire. The authors argue that the persistence of large states and empires starting in the eighth/seventh centuries BCE, which continued for many centuries, led to new socio-political structures and institutions emerging in the Near East. The primary processes that enabled this emergence were large-scale and long-distance movements, or population migrations. These patterns of social developments are analysed under different aspects: settlement patterns, urban structure, material culture, trade, governance, language spread and religion, all pointing at movement as the main catalyst for social change. This book’s argument is framed within a larger theoretical framework termed as ‘universalism’, a theory that explains many of the social transformations that happened to societies in the Near East, starting from the Neo-Assyrian period and continuing for centuries. Among other influences, the effects of these transformations are today manifested in modern languages, concepts of government, universal religions and monetized and globalized economies.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.rightsopen access
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HD Archaeology::HDD Archaeology by period / region
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HD Archaeology::HDD Archaeology by period / region::HDDC Middle & Near Eastern archaeology
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBG General & world history
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJF Asian history
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJF Asian history::HBJF1 Middle Eastern history
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBL History: earliest times to present day
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBL History: earliest times to present day::HBLA Ancient history: to c 500 CE
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBL History: earliest times to present day::HBLC Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HD Archaeology
dc.subject.otherempire
dc.subject.otherstate
dc.subject.othernear east
dc.subject.otheruniversalism
dc.subject.otherAchaemenid Empire
dc.subject.otherBronze Age
dc.subject.otherCommon Era
dc.titleRevolutionizing a world
dc.title.alternativeFrom Small States to Universalism in the Pre-Islamic Near East
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.14324/ 9781911576631
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy29b9f0a3-1b0d-4bdd-99d7-b4d3432d7fcc
oapen.relation.isbn9781911576631
oapen.pages336


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