Racial Prejudice In Imperial Rome
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Author | : A. N. Sherwin-White |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 1967-09-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521064384 |
Sherwin-White examines the literary evidence for racial tension during the Roman Imperial period.
Author | : Adrian Nicholas Sherwin-White |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Race discrimination |
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Author | : Adrian Nicolas Sherwin-White |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 107 |
Release | : 1970 |
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Author | : Benjamin Isaac |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2013-10-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 140084956X |
There was racism in the ancient world, after all. This groundbreaking book refutes the common belief that the ancient Greeks and Romans harbored "ethnic and cultural," but not racial, prejudice. It does so by comprehensively tracing the intellectual origins of racism back to classical antiquity. Benjamin Isaac's systematic analysis of ancient social prejudices and stereotypes reveals that some of those represent prototypes of racism--or proto-racism--which in turn inspired the early modern authors who developed the more familiar racist ideas. He considers the literature from classical Greece to late antiquity in a quest for the various forms of the discriminatory stereotypes and social hatred that have played such an important role in recent history and continue to do so in modern society. Magisterial in scope and scholarship, and engagingly written, The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity further suggests that an understanding of ancient attitudes toward other peoples sheds light not only on Greco-Roman imperialism and the ideology of enslavement (and the concomitant integration or non-integration) of foreigners in those societies, but also on the disintegration of the Roman Empire and on more recent imperialism as well. The first part considers general themes in the history of discrimination; the second provides a detailed analysis of proto-racism and prejudices toward particular groups of foreigners in the Greco-Roman world. The last chapter concerns Jews in the ancient world, thus placing anti-Semitism in a broader context.
Author | : Melony Carey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Racism |
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Author | : Frank M. Snowden |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674076266 |
Investigates the participation of black Africans, usually referred to as "Ethiopians," by the Greek and Romans, in classical civilization, concluding that they were accepted by pagans and Christians without prejudice.
Author | : David J. Mattingly |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2013-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 140084827X |
Despite what history has taught us about imperialism's destructive effects on colonial societies, many classicists continue to emphasize disproportionately the civilizing and assimilative nature of the Roman Empire and to hold a generally favorable view of Rome's impact on its subject peoples. Imperialism, Power, and Identity boldly challenges this view using insights from postcolonial studies of modern empires to offer a more nuanced understanding of Roman imperialism. Rejecting outdated notions about Romanization, David Mattingly focuses instead on the concept of identity to reveal a Roman society made up of far-flung populations whose experience of empire varied enormously. He examines the nature of power in Rome and the means by which the Roman state exploited the natural, mercantile, and human resources within its frontiers. Mattingly draws on his own archaeological work in Britain, Jordan, and North Africa and covers a broad range of topics, including sexual relations and violence; census-taking and taxation; mining and pollution; land and labor; and art and iconography. He shows how the lives of those under Rome's dominion were challenged, enhanced, or destroyed by the empire's power, and in doing so he redefines the meaning and significance of Rome in today's debates about globalization, power, and empire. Imperialism, Power, and Identity advances a new agenda for classical studies, one that views Roman rule from the perspective of the ruled and not just the rulers. In a new preface, Mattingly reflects on some of the reactions prompted by the initial publication of the book.
Author | : Denise Eileen McCoskey |
Publisher | : I.B. Tauris |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
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"The very ubiquity of race and racial discussions encourages the general public to accept the power it exerts as natural and to allow the process by which it has assumed such authority to remain unquestioned. In this study, Denise McCoskey explains the position of race today by unveiling its relation to structures of thought and practice in classical antiquity. This study thus attempts both to account for the role of race in the classical world and also to trace the intricate ways Greek and Roman racial ideologies continue to resonate in modern life. McCoskey uncovers the assorted frameworks that organized and classified human diversity more fundamentally in antiquity. Along the way, she highlights the noteworthy intersections of race with other important social structures, such as gender and class. Underlining the role of race in shaping the ancient world, she ultimately turns to the influence of ancient racial formation on the modern world as well, an influence mediated by the receptions and appropriations of classical antiquity, borrowings that serve to shore up modernity and its continuing, albeit complex, juxtapositions of past and present. In this deft study, McCoskey provides a touchstone for thinking more critically about race's many sites of operation in both ancient and modern eras."--Publisher's description.
Author | : K. D. White |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1975-11-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521203333 |
This volume deals with equipment and instruments of the Roman world used in processing and storage as opposed to cultivation.
Author | : Greg Woolf |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199325189 |
A major new history of the spectacular rise and fall of the ancient world's greatest empire