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Author : Avraham Faust 

The Neo-Assyrian empire — the first large empire of the ancient world — has attracted a great deal of public attention ever since the spectacular discoveries of its impressive remains in the 19th century. The southwestern part of this empire, located in the lands of the Bible, is archaeologically speaking the best known region in the world, and its history is described in a plethora of texts, including the Hebrew Bible. Using a bottom-up approach, Avraham Faust utilises this unparalleled information to reconstruct the outcomes of the Assyrian conquest of the region and how it impacted the diverse political units and ecological zones that comprised it. In doing so, he draws close attention to the transformations the imperial take-over brought in its wake. His analysis reveals the marginality of the annexed territories in the southwest as the empire focused its activities in small border areas facing its prospering clients. A comparison of this surprising picture to the information available from other parts of the empire suggests that the distance of these provinces from the imperial core is responsible for their fate. This sheds new light on factors influencing imperial expansion, the considerations leading to annexation, and the imperial methods of control, challenging old conventions about the development of the Assyrian empire and its rule. Faust also examines the Assyrian empire within the broader context of ancient Near Eastern imperialism to answer larger questions on the nature of Assyrian domination, the reasons for its harsh treatment of the distant provinces, and the factors influencing the limits of its reach. His findings highlight the historical development of imperial control in antiquity and the ways in which later empires were able to overcome similar limitations, paving the way to much larger and longer-lasting polities.

The Neo-Assyrian Empire in the Southwest: Imperial Domination and its Consequences 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction
Background
The Assyrian Empire
The Sources for the Study
2. Before the Empire: The Southern Levant in the Eighth Century bce
The Prosperity of the Eighth Century bce: Historical Background
Settlement and Demography in the Eighth Century bce: The Archaeological Evidence
The Northern and the Southern Kingdoms in the Eighth Century bce: Some Demographic Comparisons
Summary
3. ‘Ah, Assyria, the Rod of My Anger’: The Assyrian Takeover of the Southwest
Beyond the Horizon: Assyria and the Levant Prior to the Time of Tiglath-Pileser III
The Assyrians are Coming: Tiglath-Pileser III and the Subjugation of the Levant
Stabilising Assyrian Control: The Rule of Shalmaneser V and Sargon II
Holding the Empire: The First Years of Sennacherib
Summary
4. Under the Empire: Settlement and Demography in the Southwestern Periphery of the Assyrian Empire in the Seventh Century bce
Settlement and Demography in the Seventh Century bce
The Annexed Territories in the Northern Part of the Country
The Semi-Independent Kingdoms in the Southern Part of the Country
Discussion
Summary
Is Such a Drastic Settlement Decline Possible?
The Causes for the Decline?
Summary
5. Prosperity, Depression, and the Empire: Economic Developments in the Southwest during the Seventh Century bce
Economy and Trade in the South during the Seventh Century bce
The Role of the North in the Economic Prosperity of the Seventh Century bce
The Local System and the Greater World
Summary and Conclusions
The Olive Oil Industry in Time and Space
Iron Age Olive Oil Production
The Economy of the Oil Presses
The Development of the Olive Oil Industry through Time and Space
Summary
6. Assyrians in the Southwest? The Evidence for Assyrian Administration and Presence
Assyrian Cuneiform Texts in the Southwest
Imperial Architecture and Objects: Background
Assyrian Palaces, Residencies, and Forts in the Southern Levant
Assyrian Palace Ware
Additional Small Finds
Discussion and Conclusions
Summary
7. The Empire in the Southwest: Reconstructing Assyrian Activity in the Provinces
Background: The Establishment of the Southwestern Provinces
Managing the Provinces: Deportations
The Place(s) of Assyria: Locating Assyrian Activities in the Southwestern Provinces
The Central Coastal Plain, Assyrian Policy Towards Maritime Trade, and the Status of Dor
New Settlements in the Seventh Century: An Assyrian Landscape of Power
Assyrian Activities beyond the Provinces
Summary and Discussion
8. Local Responses to the Empire: From Armed Resistance to Integration
Background: Local Responses to Empire
Local Responses to Assyrian Imperial Rule in the Southern Levant
Local Reactions to Assyrian Hegemony in the Southwest: Some General Observations
Reactions to Assyria: Regional Patterns within the Southwest
The Influence on Assyria
Summary
9. ‘They Make a Desolation and They Call It Peace’: Re-Examining the Nature of the Imperial Peace
The Birth of the Imperial Peace: The Pax Romana and Its Derivatives
The ‘Assyrian Peace’
What Do Scholars Mean When They Refer to an Imperial Peace? On the Evolution of the Concept
Can the Period of Assyrian Rule in the Southwest be Understood as an ‘Imperial Peace’?
Conclusions
10. Empire by Design? Imperial Policies and Planning and the Conquest of the Southwest
Assyria’s Imperial Policies, Strategies, and Tactics
The View from the Southwest: Assyrian Imperial Policies, Strategies, and Tactics Re-Examined
Accounting for the Discrepancies: A Comparative Perspective
Imperial Strategies and the Annexation of the Southwest
Summary and Conclusions
11. A Province Too Far? The Assyrian Empire, Its Southwestern Margins, and the Dynamics of Imperial Expansion, Conquest, and Rule
The Case Study: Assyria’s Southwestern Periphery in the Eighth and Seventh Centuries bce
The Southwest, the Assyrian Empire, and Imperial Expansion and Control
The Distant Provinces Test, or the Achaemenid Imperial Economy Revolution

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