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Making Mesopotamia : geography and empire in a Romano-Iranian borderland
- Title
- Making Mesopotamia : geography and empire in a Romano-Iranian borderland / by Hamish Cameron.
- Author
- Cameron, Hamish (Hamish Robert)
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
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Details
- Description
- x, 375 pages : maps; 25 cm.
- 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"--
- Series Statement
- Impact of empire : Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C.-A.D. 476, 1572-0500 ; volume 32
- Uniform Title
- Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C.-A.D. 476) (Series) ; 32.
- Subjects
- Borderlands
- Iraq
- Iran
- History
- Borderlands > Iran > History > To 1500
- To 1500
- Imperialism in literature
- International relations
- Travel > Sources
- Geography, Ancient, in literature
- Iraq > Historical geography
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Iraq > Description and travel > Sources
- Rome > Relations > Iran
- Iran > Relations > Rome
- Latin literature > History and criticism
- Rome (Empire)
- Borderlands > Rome > History
- Historical geography
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- Introducing the borderland -- Knowing -- Naming -- Narrating -- Moving -- Carrying -- Ruling -- Epilogue: Connecting.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-4292
- ISBN
- 9789004388628
- 9004388621
- 9789004388635 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018047724
- 40028847185
- OCLC
- 1061869113
- Author
- Cameron, Hamish (Hamish Robert), author.
- Title
- Making Mesopotamia : geography and empire in a Romano-Iranian borderland / by Hamish Cameron.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Impact of empire : Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C.-A.D. 476, 1572-0500 ; volume 32Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C.-A.D. 476) (Series) ; 32.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Chronological Term
- To 1500
- Other Form:
- Online version: Cameron, Hamish (Hamish Robert), author. Making Mesopotamia Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019] 9789004388635 (DLC) 2018052392
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028847185
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-4292