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Author: Henry P. Colburn
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.640kg
ISBN: 9781474452366
ISBN 10: 1474452361
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 30 November 2019
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
It will be widely read by students of Achaemenid Egypt, of the Achaemenid empire in general (which as a discipline as well as a historical reality is nothing if not the assemblage of its diverse parts), and of the wider world of later pre-Hellenistic history.--Journal of the American Oriental Society ""Christopher J. Tuplin"" This accessible new academic treatment sets out to challenge the prejudices of earlier commentators (starting with the ancient Greeks), and illustrates very effectively the ways in which scholarship is as prone to bias as any other aspect of human activity.--Campbell Price ""Ancient Egypt Magazine"" Written lucidly for a broad readership, Colburn's book masterfully recovers a critical era of Egyptian history until now muted by traditional hegemonies of periodization. This is a must-read for Egyptologists, Classicists, and Achaemenid studies specialists, as well as for empire theorists and art historians/archaeologists concerned with projections of identity in the cross-hairs of globalization.-- ""Margaret Cool Root, University of Michigan""
"It will be widely read by students of Achaemenid Egypt, of the Achaemenid empire in general (which as a discipline as well as a historical reality is nothing if not the assemblage of its diverse parts), and of the wider world of later pre-Hellenistic history.--Journal of the American Oriental Society ""Christopher J. Tuplin"" This accessible new academic treatment sets out to challenge the prejudices of earlier commentators (starting with the ancient Greeks), and illustrates very effectively the ways in which scholarship is as prone to bias as any other aspect of human activity.--Campbell Price ""Ancient Egypt Magazine"" Written lucidly for a broad readership, Colburn's book masterfully recovers a critical era of Egyptian history until now muted by traditional hegemonies of periodization. This is a must-read for Egyptologists, Classicists, and Achaemenid studies specialists, as well as for empire theorists and art historians/archaeologists concerned with projections of identity in the cross-hairs of globalization.-- ""Margaret Cool Root, University of Michigan"""
Author Information
Henry Colburn is Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow in Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He is the author of numerous essays on the art and archaeology of the Achaemenid Empire. This is his first book, based on his PhD which he received in 2014.
