Cosmopolitanism and Empire: Universal Rulers, Local Elites, and Cultural Integration in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean by Richard E. Payne, John Weisweiler, Myles Lavan

Cosmopolitanism and Empire: Universal Rulers, Local Elites, and Cultural Integration in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean

Richard E. Payne, John Weisweiler, Myles Lavan

296 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative slow-paced
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The empires of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean invented cosmopolitan politics. In the first millennia BCE and CE, a succession of territorially extensive states incorporated populations of unprecedented cultural diversity. Cosmopolitanism ...

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