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"This book presents the long history of Syria by means of a journey through its most important and most recently-excavated archaeological sites.(...)". Quatrième de couverture
Author : Youssef Kanjou
Publisher : Archaeopress Archaeology
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 9781784913816
"This book presents the long history of Syria by means of a journey through its most important and most recently-excavated archaeological sites.(...)". Quatrième de couverture
Author : Y. Kanjou
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 30,79 MB
Release : 2016-07-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1784913820
This volume presents the long history of Syria through a jouney of the most important and recently-excavated archaeological sites. The sites cover over 1.8 million years and all regions in Syria; 110 academics have contributed information on 103 excavations for this volume
Author : Trevor Bryce
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 39,56 MB
Release : 2014-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0199646678
The three-thousand year story of ancient Syria, from Bronze Age to Imperial Rome: the essential back-story to one of the world's most trouble-prone and volatile regions
Author : Marwa Daoudy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,77 MB
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1108476082
Presents a new conceptual framework drawing on human security to evaluate the claim that climate change caused the conflict in Syria.
Author : Simon James
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 23,19 MB
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 019257177X
Dura-Europos, a Parthian-ruled Greco-Syrian city, was captured by Rome c.AD165. It then accommodated a Roman garrison until its destruction by Sasanian siege c.AD256. Excavations of the site between the World Wars made sensational discoveries, and with renewed exploration from 1986 to 2011, Dura remains the best-explored city of the Roman East. A critical revelation was a sprawling Roman military base occupying a quarter of the city's interior. This included swathes of civilian housing converted to soldiers' accommodation and several existing sanctuaries, as well as baths, an amphitheatre, headquarters, and more temples added by the garrison. Base and garrison were clearly fundamental factors in the history of Roman Dura, but what impact did they have on the civil population? Original excavators gloomily portrayed Durenes evicted from their homes and holy places, and subjected to extortion and impoverishment by brutal soldiers, while recent commentators have envisaged military-civilian concordia, with shared prosperity and integration. Detailed examination of the evidence presents a new picture. Through the use of GPS, satellite, geophysical and archival evidence, this volume shows that the Roman military base and resident community were even bigger than previously understood, with both military and civil communities appearing much more internally complex than has been allowed until now. The result is a fascinating social dynamic which we can partly reconstruct, giving us a nuanced picture of life in a city near the eastern frontier of the Roman world.
Author : Warwick Ball
Publisher : Interlink Publishing Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,12 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781566562256
Syria is the Middle East's best kept secret. With its many site plans and maps, readable text and 96 color photos, this book makes available for the first time the immensely wealthy history, archaeology and architecture of Syria to the general reader and interested traveler.
Author : Amy Gansell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 11,45 MB
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 0190673168
This book considers the "Greatest Hits" of ancient Near Eastern art and archaeology, including canonical objects, sites, and monuments from Egypt, the Levant, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran, from the prehistoric era through the Classical period. Gansell, Shafer, and their contributors investigate the factors that have made these historical artifacts so well known for so long. By questioning the canon, this book allows readers to better reflect on the range of ancientNear Eastern culture and revise the canon so it can accommodate new discoveries, represent the values of heritage communities, and remain relevant to contemporary and future audiences.
Author : Anaheed Al-Hardan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 23,32 MB
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0231541228
One hundred thousand Palestinians fled to Syria after being expelled from Palestine upon the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. Integrating into Syrian society over time, their experience stands in stark contrast to the plight of Palestinian refugees in other Arab countries, leading to different ways through which to understand the 1948 Nakba, or catastrophe, in their popular memory. Conducting interviews with first-, second-, and third-generation members of Syria's Palestinian community, Anaheed Al-Hardan follows the evolution of the Nakba—the central signifier of the Palestinian refugee past and present—in Arab intellectual discourses, Syria's Palestinian politics, and the community's memorialization. Al-Hardan's sophisticated research sheds light on the enduring relevance of the Nakba among the communities it helped create, while challenging the nationalist and patriotic idea that memories of the Nakba are static and universally shared among Palestinians. Her study also critically tracks the Nakba's changing meaning in light of Syria's twenty-first-century civil war.
Author : John McHugo
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,64 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781620970454
The collapse of Syria into civil war over the past two years has spawned a regional crisis whose reverberations grow louder with each passing month. In this timely account, John McHugo seeks to contextualize the headlines, providing broad historical perspective and a richly layered analysis of a country few in the United States know or understand. McHugo charts the history of Syria from World War I to the tumultuous present, examining the country's thwarted attempts at independence, the French policies that sowed the seeds of internal strife, and the fragility of its foundations as a nation. He then turns to more recent events: religious and sectarian tensions that have riven Syria, the pressures of the Cold War and the Arab-Israeli conflict, and two generations of rule by the Assads. The result is a fresh and rigorous narrative that explains both the creation and unraveling of the current regime and the roots of the broader Middle East conflict. As the Syrian civil war threatens to draw the U.S. military once again into the Middle East, here is a rare and authoritative guide to a complex nation that demands our attention.
Author : Ross Burns
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 32,4 MB
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0755645308
How can a nation's archaeological treasures help explain its history, especially one as richly complex as Syria's? Ross Burns chooses 40 among Syria's outstanding range of sites, accompanied by over 200 colour illustrations, to take the reader through the tangled paths of this crossroads of the eastern Mediterranean where numerous world cultures intersected. Given the last 12 years of savage conflict, the author reports too on the plight of many of these monuments, addressing the common but unhelpful assumption that much of the country's archaeological treasures have been 'destroyed'. A better approach is to recognise that Syria's heritage can play a role in the country's recovery and cannot simply be declared a write-off. This is a history which tells us much about how Syria's mixture of traditions defy simplistic categorisation through modern definitions of cultures and identities.