Ancient Persia in Western History
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-78076-480-1 (ISBN)
Ancient Persia in Western History is a measured rejoinder to the dominant narrative that considers the Graeco-Persian Wars to be merely the first round of an oft-repeated battle between the despotic 'East' and the broadly enlightened 'West'. Sasan Samiei analyses the historiography which has skewed our understanding of this crucial era - contrasting the work of Edward Gibbon and Goethe, which venerated Classicism and Hellenistic history, with later writers such as John Linton Myres. Finally, Samiei explores the cross-cultural encounters which constituted the Achaemenid period itself, and repositions it as essential to the history of Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Sasan Samiei completed his PhD in Iranian History at University College London, UK, and also holds an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics, UK.
Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter 1 – Introduction
I - Methodology, Contexts and Terminology
II - Structure
Chapter 2 - Setting the Scene: Anthropology, Linguistics and Romantic Hellenism in Victorian Britain
I - The New Sciences of Anthropology and Language:
A Historical Analysis
II - The Context: Victorian (Germanic) Hellenism
III - ‘Helleno-Aryanism’: A Late-Nineteenth Century Phenomenon
IV - Conclusions
Chapter 3 - The ‘Race-Culture’ Debate: 1900s–1930s
I - Institutional and Historical Backgrounds
II - Differentiating between ‘Race’ and ‘Culture’: A Critical Response to the Concept of the ‘Aryan Race’
III - The Rationalization of ‘Race’ and ‘Culture’
IV - Synthesizing ‘Race’ and ‘Culture’: ‘Neither Race Purely nor Culture Merely’
V - ‘Race’ and ‘Culture’: An Analytical Overview
VI - Conclusions
Chapter 4 - The ‘Diffusionism v. Evolutionism’ Theoretical Debate, Gordon Childe and the Prehistory of Europe
I - Configuration of Cultures: A Historical Background
II – A Bibliographical Survey
a) The First Two Editions of The Dawn of the European Prehistory: A Comparative
Analysis
b) The Aryans: A Study of Indo-European Origin
III – Analysis
IV- Conclusions
Chapter 5 - Hellenisms Reassessed (1890s-1940s): Part I
I - Mainstream Hellenism: 1890s-1940s
II - The Works of John Linton Myres: Going Against the Grain?
a) The Early Years: 1900s-1910s
b) The Formative Years: 1920-1930
c) The Mature Years: 1930s
III - Analysis
IV - How to Proceed in Part II
Chapter 6 - Hellenisms Reassessed (1890s–1940s): Part II
I - Myres and History
II - Myres and Science
III - Aesthetic Hellenism: A Philosophical Treatment
IV- Myres’ Overarching Intellectual Template: An Analytical Audit
V - Conclusions
Chapter 7 - Hellenisms and the Historiography of Ancient Persia
I - Achaemenid Persia: A Historiographical Survey
a) Doublethink Downplayed
b) Doublethink in a State of Irresolution
c) Doublethink Moving Towards Resolution
d) No Doublethink
II - Analysis
a) Spatial Terms
b) Political Terms
III - Conclusions
Chapter 8 - Concluding Remarks
Postscript
Glossary
Bibliography
Sprache | englisch |
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Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 560 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 1-78076-480-4 / 1780764804 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-78076-480-1 / 9781780764801 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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