Between Sahara and sea : Africa in the Roman Empire /

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Author / Creator:	Mattingly, D. J., author.
Imprint:	Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2023. ©2023
Description:	xxiv, 717 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Thomas Spencer Jerome lectures Jerome lectures ; 26th ser.
Subject:	Roman provinces -- Africa, North. Roman provinces. Africa, North -- History -- To 647. North Africa. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13462057

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ISBN:	9780472133451 0472133454
Notes:	"Jerome lectures twenty-sixth series"--title page. Includes bibliographical references (589-697) and index.
Summary:	"Between Sahara and the Sea: Africa in the Roman Empire challenges orthodox views of the story of Africa under Roman domination. It presents a new framework for understanding this and other territories incorporated in the Roman Empire. Based on decades of research in North Africa, David Mattingly's book is a cleverly constructed and innovative account of the history and archaeology of ancient North Africa, with a main focus on the first century BCE to the third century CE. He charts a new path toward a bottom-up understanding of North African archaeology, exploring in turn the differing material culture and experiences of the Roman communities of the military and the urban and rural areas. This important book is the most comprehensive in English on Roman North Africa. It is remarkably rich, with up-to-date references and a host of new ideas and perspectives. Well written and illustrated, with a plethora of maps, it will be required reading for anyone interested in the subject. Rather than emphasising the role of external actors, as studies of 'Roman Africa' have traditionally done, Between Sahara and the Sea focuses on local contributions to the making of Africa in the Roman Empire."--front flap.

Table of Contents:

List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface and Acknowledgements
Note on the Transliteration of Names and Spelling of Toponyms
Part 1. Introduction
Chapter 1. From the Desert to the Sown: An African Journey
Chapter 2. Discrepant Identity and Other Theoretical Approaches
Part 2. Early Cultural Encounters In North Africa: 1000 bce - 40 ce (And Beyond)
Chapter 3. Incomers: Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans
Chapter 4. Numidae and Mauri of the Tell
Chapter 5. Gaetuli of the Pre-Desert and Garamantes of the Sahara
Part 3. The Military Community
Chapter 6. Ars Militaris: Pacifying, Protecting, Policing, Posturing?
Chapter 7. Military Identities in Action
Part 4. The Urban Communities
Chapter 8. Different Towns and Varied Trajectories
Chapter 9. Exploring Urban Identities
Part 5. The Rural Communities
Chapter 10. Different Landscapes, Different Worlds
Chapter 11. Expressions of Rural Identities
Part 6. Some Final Themes
Chapter 12. Different Economies
Chapter 13. African Agency
Appendix 1. Chronological Table
Bibliography
Index

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