Description
In this book, Claudia Glatz reconsiders the concept of empire and the processes of imperial making and undoing of the Hittite network in Late Bronze Age Anatolia. Using an array of archaeological, iconographic, and textual sources, she offers a fresh account of one of the earliest, well-attested imperialist polities of the ancient Near East. Glatz critically examines the complexity and ever - transforming nature of imperial relationships, and the practices through which Hittite elites and administrators aimed to bind disparate communities and achieve a measure of sovereignty in particular places and landscapes. She also tracks the ambiguities inherent in these practices -- what they did or did not achieve, how they were resisted, and how they were subtly negotiated in different regional and cultural contexts.
This book reconsiders the concept of empire and examines the processes of imperial making and undoing in Hittite Anatolia (c. 1600-1180 BCE).
About the Author
Claudia Glatz is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Glasgow. She currently directs the Sirwan Regional Project, alongside a cultural heritage initiative combining archaeological practice with the creation of new museum spaces and educational resources in the Kurdish Region of Iraq. Her previous field work focused on the Turkish Black Sea region (Cide Archaeological Project).
Reviews
'With Making, Glatz has written a monograph that is both an exciting application and case study of the archaeology of imperialism, and a comprehensive archaeological treatment of an empire that has never adequately received one ... the most significant booklength treatment of the Hittite Empire for many years to come, and has immediately emerged as essential reading for all those interested in this time and place.' James F. Osborne, Journal of Near Eastern Studies
Book Information
ISBN 9781108491105
Author Claudia Glatz
Format Hardback
Page Count 350
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 1000g
Dimensions(mm) 265mm * 185mm * 30mm
This book reconsiders the concept of empire and examines the processes of imperial making and undoing in Hittite Anatolia (c. 1600-1180 BCE).
About the Author
Claudia Glatz is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Glasgow. She currently directs the Sirwan Regional Project, alongside a cultural heritage initiative combining archaeological practice with the creation of new museum spaces and educational resources in the Kurdish Region of Iraq. Her previous field work focused on the Turkish Black Sea region (Cide Archaeological Project).
Reviews
'With Making, Glatz has written a monograph that is both an exciting application and case study of the archaeology of imperialism, and a comprehensive archaeological treatment of an empire that has never adequately received one ... the most significant booklength treatment of the Hittite Empire for many years to come, and has immediately emerged as essential reading for all those interested in this time and place.' James F. Osborne, Journal of Near Eastern Studies
Book Information
ISBN 9781108491105
Author Claudia Glatz
Format Hardback
Page Count 350
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 1000g
Dimensions(mm) 265mm * 185mm * 30mm
