@article{961060,
      recid = {961060},
      author = {Collins, John J. and Manning, Joseph Gilbert,},
      title = {Revolt and resistance in the ancient classical world and  the Near East : in the crucible of empire /},
      pages = {1 online resource (312 pages) :},
      abstract = {This collection of essays contains a state of the field  discussion about the nature of revolt and resistance in the  ancient world. While it does not cover the entire ancient  world, it does focus in on the key revolts of the pre-Roman  imperial world. Regardless of the exact sequence, it was an  undeniable fact that the area we now call the Middle East  witnessed a sequence of extensive empires in the second  half of the last millennium BCE. At first, these spread  from East to West (Assyria, Babylon, Persia). Then after  the campaigns of Alexander, the direction of conquest was  reversed. Despite the sense of inevitability, or of  divinely ordained destiny, that one might get from the  passages that speak of a sequence of world-empires,  imperial rule was always contested. The essays in this  volume consider some of the ways in which imperial rule was  resisted and challenged, in the Assyrian, Persian, and  Hellenistic (Seleucid and Ptolemaic) empires. Not every  uprising considered in this volume would qualify as a  revolution by this definition. Revolution indeed was on the  far end of a spectrum of social responses to empire  building, from resistance to unrest, to grain riots and  peasant rebellions. The editors offer the volume as a means  of furthering discussions on the nature and the drivers of  resistance and revolution, the motivations for them as well  as a summary of the events that have left their mark on our  historical sources long after the dust had settled.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/961060},
}