: Richard E. Payne, Rhyne King
: The Limits of Empire in Ancient Afghanistan Rule and Resistance in the Hindu Kush, circa 600 BCE-600 CE
: Harrassowitz Verlag
: 9783447390279
: Classica et Orientalia
: 1
: CHF 60.20
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: Altertum
: English
: 272
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models the kind of interdisciplinary collaboration necessary to produce persuasive accounts of an ancient Afghanistan whose surviving material and literary evidence remains comparatively limited. It shows how Afghan-centered imperial projects co-opted local elites, communicated in the idioms of local cultures, and created administrative archipelagoes rather than continuous territories. Above all, the volume makes plain the interest and utility in placing Afghanistan at the center, rather than the periphery, of the history of ancient empires in West Asia.