TY - BOOK ID - 19012 TI - Imperial Matter: Ancient Persia and the Archaeology of Empires AU - Khatchadourian, Lori PY - 2016 SN - 9780520290525 9780520964952 DB - DOAB KW - empire KW - sovereignty KW - imperialism KW - south caucasus KW - ancient persia UR - https://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=search&query=rid:19012 AB - What is the role of the material world in shaping the tensions and paradoxes of imperial sovereignty? Scholars have long shone light on the complex processes of conquest, extraction, and colonialism under imperial rule. But imperialism has usually been cast as an exclusively human drama, one in which the world of matter does not play an active role. Lori Khatchadourian argues instead that things—from everyday objects to monumental buildings—profoundly shape social and political life under empire. Based on the archaeology of ancient Persia and the South Caucasus, Imperial Matter advances powerful new analytical approaches to the study of imperialism writ large and should be read by scholars of empire across the humanities and social sciences. ER -