Thomas Harrison Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

A compelling history of the world’s greatest ancient powers. In this highly appealing collection, a distinguished team of internationally renowned scholars survey the great empires from 1600 BCE to 500 CE. In ten comprehensive chapters, from the ancient Mediterranean to China, these experts guide readers through the empires of New Kingdom Egypt, the Hittites, Assyria and Babylonia, Achaemenid Persia, Athens, Alexander the Great and his successors, Parthian and early Sasanian Persia, Rome, India, and Qin and Han China. Each chapter conveys the main narrative of events, their impact on ancient societies, and the dominant rulers who shaped that history, from Ramesses II in Egypt to Chandragupta in India, from Rome’s Augustus to China’s Shi-huangdi. Exploring the nature of empire itself, The Great Empires of the Ancient World shows how profoundly imperialism in the distant past influenced our contemporary ideas of power.

Offers a philosophical history of bridges—both literal bridges and their symbolic counterparts—and the acts of cultural connection they embody. “Always,” wrote Philip Larkin, “it is by bridges that we live.” Bridges represent our aspirations to connect, to soar across divides. And it is the unfinished business of these aspirations that makes bridges such stirring sights, especially when they are marvels of ingenuity. A rich compendium of myths, superstitions, and literary and ideological figurations, Of Bridges organizes a poetic and philosophical history of bridges into nine thematic clusters. Leaping in lucid prose between distant times and places, Thomas Harrison questions why bridges are built and where they lead. He probes links forged by religion between life’s transience and eternity as well as the consolidating ties of music, illustrated by the case of the blues. He investigates bridges in poetry, as flash points in war, and the megabridges of our globalized world. He illuminates real and symbolic crossings facing migrants each day and the affective connections that make persons and societies cohere. In readings of literature, film, philosophy, and art, Harrison engages in a profound reflection on how bridges form and transform cultural communities. Of Bridges is a mesmerizing, vertiginous tale of bridges both visible and invisible, both lived and imagined.

Herrscher, Kriege, Kulturen: Imperien, die (Welt-) Geschichte schrieben Ob Ägypten, Rom, Persien, Indien oder China: Die Geschichte der antiken Großreiche ist bestimmt von Eroberung und Unterwerfung, aber auch von kultureller und künstlerischer Annäherung und Fortschritt. Pyramiden, Kolosseum, hellenistische Skulpturen, Terrakotta-Armee und Ischtar-Tor beeindrucken uns noch heute. Doch ist Kultur immer auch Spiegel der Politik – und umgekehrt. So führte manches Imperium auf dem Höhepunkt seiner politischen Macht und kulturellen Blüte jahrzehntelang Krieg mit anderen Völkern. In diesem ausführlich bebilderten Band stellen international bekannte Fachleute (wie Bill Manley und Michael Sommer) die zehn wichtigsten antiken Imperien vor und schlagen dabei immer wieder die Brücke in die Gegenwart.