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Assyria's plunder: from ancient empire to modern loot

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dc.contributor.authorDeGrado, Jessie, author
dc.contributor.authorUniversity Press of Colorado, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-24T17:53:20Z
dc.date.issued2026
dc.description.abstractThis book elucidates a new approach to cultural interaction between Assyria and its client states--Israel and Judah--that interrogates the entanglement of modern imperialism and the historiography of ancient empire, exploring Neo-Assyrian empire's violence against modern imperialism.--Provided by publisher.
dc.description.tableofcontentsPart 1: Genealogies of Empire. The Evil Empire: 1. Ancient Alterity, Modern Anxiety -- 2. A First Encounter: Regional and International Politics in Isaiah 7 -- Part 2: Imperial Habitus, Imperial Envy. 3. Habitus of Empire: The Tribute Scene in Assyrian Art -- 4. Imperial Envy: Biblical Appropriations of the Tribute Scene -- Part 3: Agentive Artifacts and Powerful Plunder. 5. "So Sure of Flight": Trophy Gods and Material Agency -- 6. The Gods of Samaria.
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/245026
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofUniversity Press of Colorado
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dc.subjectImperialism -- Historiography
dc.subjectAssyria -- Antiquities
dc.subjectAssyria -- In the Bible
dc.subjectAssyria -- History -- Neo-Assyrian Empire, 912-609 B.C. -- Historiography
dc.subjectMiddle East -- Antiquities -- Historiography
dc.titleAssyria's plunder: from ancient empire to modern loot
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