Book contents
- The Making of Empire in Bronze Age Anatolia
- The Making of Empire in Bronze Age Anatolia
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- One Empire Is Always in the Making
- Part I Empire at Home
- Part II On Empire’s Edges
- Four The Pontic Shatter Zone
- Five Nesting Faults
- Six Arresting Geographies – Ambiguous Edges
- Part III Empire of Things
- Works Cited
- Index
Six - Arresting Geographies – Ambiguous Edges
from Part II - On Empire’s Edges
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 October 2020
Book contents
- The Making of Empire in Bronze Age Anatolia
- The Making of Empire in Bronze Age Anatolia
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- One Empire Is Always in the Making
- Part I Empire at Home
- Part II On Empire’s Edges
- Four The Pontic Shatter Zone
- Five Nesting Faults
- Six Arresting Geographies – Ambiguous Edges
- Part III Empire of Things
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
Chapter 6 examines the tensions between imperial rhetoric, the arresting symbolism of natural boundary markers, and the political ambiguities of routine border practice along its most distant edges in eastern Anatolia and northern Syria.
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- The Making of Empire in Bronze Age AnatoliaHittite Sovereign Practice, Resistance, and Negotiation, pp. 175 - 194Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020