| Description |
1 online resource (x, 375 pages) : maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Impact of empire : Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C.-A.D. 476,
1572-0500 ;
volume 32
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Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C.-A.D. 476) (Series) ; 32.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Summary |
"In Making Mesopotamia: Geography and Empire in a Romano-Iranian Borderland, Hamish Cameron examines the representation of the Mesopotamian Borderland in the geographical writing of Strabo, Pliny the Elder, Claudius Ptolemy, the anonymous Expositio Totius Mundi, and Ammianus Marcellinus. This inter-imperial borderland between the Roman Empire and the Arsacid and Sasanid Empires provided fertile ground for Roman geographical writers to articulate their ideas about space, boundaries, and imperial power. By examining these geographical descriptions, Hamish Cameron shows how each author constructed an image of Mesopotamia in keeping with the goals and context of their own work, while collectively creating a vision of Mesopotamia as a borderland space of movement, inter-imperial tension, and global engagement"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Introducing the borderland -- Knowing -- Naming -- Narrating -- Moving -- Carrying -- Ruling -- Epilogue: Connecting. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Iraq -- Historical geography.
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Iraq. |
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Historical geography. |
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Iraq -- Description and travel -- Sources.
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Geography, Ancient, in literature.
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Geography, Ancient, in literature. |
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Imperialism in literature.
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Imperialism in literature. |
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Latin literature -- History and criticism.
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Latin literature. |
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Borderlands -- Rome -- History.
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Borderlands -- Iran -- History -- To 1500.
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Borderlands. |
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Iran. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
| Subject |
Rome -- Relations -- Iran.
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Rome (Empire) |
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Relations. |
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Iran -- Relations -- Rome.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cameron, Hamish (Hamish Robert). Making Mesopotamia. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019] 9789004388628 (DLC) 2018047724 |
| ISBN |
9789004388635 electronic book |
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900438863X electronic book |
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9789004388628 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9004388621 |
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