02381nam a22003857a 4500 51546 51546 20190801131424.0 190801b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780520290525 :International Book Distributors :Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi :114119 :20/07/2019 935.7 KHA Khatchadourian, Lori Imperial matter : ancient Persia and the archaeology of empires / Lori Khatchadourian California : University of California Press, ©2016 xxxviii, 288p. 24cm. 2000 Book collections on Project Muge 1. The Satrapal condition -- 2. Where things stand -- 3. Imperial matter -- 4. From captives to delegates -- 5. Delegates and proxies in the Dahyu Armenia -- 6. Going underground: affiliates, proxies, and delegates at Tsaghkahovit -- Conclusion. What is the role of the material world in shaping the tensions and paradoxes of imperial sovereignty? Scholars have long shed light on the complex processes of conquest, extraction, and colonialism under imperial rule. But imperialism has usually been cast as an exclusively human drama, one in which the world of matter does not play an active role. Lori Khatchadourian argues instead that things--from everyday objects to monumental buildings--profoundly shape social and political life under empire. Out of the archaeology of ancient Persia and the South Caucasus, Imperial Matter advances powerful new analytical approaches to the study of imperialism writ large and should be read by scholars working on empire across the humanities and social sciences."--Provided by publisher History History of ancient world (to ca. 499) Mesopotamia to 637 & Iranian Plateau to 637 Imperialism -- Social aspects. Sovereignty. Archaeology and history -- Iran. Archaeology and history -- Caucasus, South. Architecture and society. Architecture and society. Caucasus, South. Political Theory of the State. Law, Politics & Government. imperialism. ancient persia. : Khatchadourian, Lori BOOK 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2019-08-01 International Book Distributors 2000.00 0 935.7 KHA 26512 2019-08-01 00:00:00 2019-08-01 BOOK