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Island and empire : how civil war in Crete mobilized the Ottoman world
\"In the 1890s, conflict erupted on the Ottoman island of Crete. At the heart of the Crete Question, as it came to be known around the world, were clashing claims of sovereignty between Greece and the Ottoman Empire. The island was of tremendous geostrategic value, boasting one of the deepest natural harbors in the Mediterranean, and the conflict quickly gained international dimensions with an unprecedented collective military intervention by six European powers. Island and Empire shows how events in Crete ultimately transformed the Middle East. Ugur Zekeriya Peçe narrates a connected history of international intervention, mass displacement, and popular mobilization. The conflict drove a wedge between the island's Muslims and Christians, quickly acquiring a character of civil war. Civil war in turn unleashed a humanitarian catastrophe with the displacement of more than seventy thousand Muslims from Crete. In years following, many of thos
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Change and Transition on Crete
The theme of this volume, presented in honour of G.W.M. Harrison, whose academic contributions have enriched our perspective of Roman Crete, is change and transition, a topic that challenges some of the earlier approaches to Hellenistic and Roman Crete, and which presents a different perspective on historical events and archaeological evidence.
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Seals, craft, and community in Bronze Age Crete
\"Generations of scholars have grappled with the origins of 'palace' society on Minoan Crete, seeking to explain when and how life on the island altered monumentally. Emily Anderson turns light on the moment just before the palaces, recognizing it as a remarkably vibrant phase of socio-cultural innovation. Exploring the role of craftspersons, travelers and powerful objects, she argues that social change resulted from creative work that forged connections at new scales and in novel ways. This study focuses on an extraordinary corpus of sealstones which have been excavated across Crete. Fashioned of imported ivory and engraved with images of dashing lions, these distinctive objects linked the identities of their distant owners. Anderson argues that it was the repeated but pioneering actions of such diverse figures, people and objects alike, that dramatically changed the shape of social life in the Aegean at the turn of the second millennium BCE\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Cultural Practices and Material Culture in Archaic and Classical Crete
Crete offers rich material for investigating questions at the heart of research on social organization in ancient Greece.The essays in these proceedings use archeological and historical approaches to analyze the processes of structural change that took place in the cities of Crete during the Archaic and Classical periods, bringing together for.
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The Mosaics of Roman Crete
This book examines the rich corpus of mosaics created in Crete during the Roman and Late Antique eras. It provides essential information on the style, iconography and chronology of the material, as well as discussion of the craftspeople who created them and the technologies they used. The contextualized mosaic evidence also reveals a new understanding of Roman and Late Antique Crete. It helps shed light on the processes by which Crete became part of the Roman Empire, its subsequent Christianization and the pivotal role the island played in the Mediterranean network of societies during these periods. This book provides an original approach to the study of mosaics and an innovative method of presenting a diachronic view of provincial Cretan society.
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Travels in Crete
Robert Pashley (1805-59) spent 1833-4 exploring Greece and Turkey as a Trinity College, Cambridge Travelling Fellow and contributor to a British survey of the Mediterranean, yet it was the island of Crete that most captivated his attention; his travels there became the subject of this two-volume account, published in 1837. The following year, Pashley's notes, collected artefacts and books were destroyed in a fire, so this work is all that remains from his expedition to the island. Crete at various points in its history had been ruled by Romans, Byzantines, Venetians and Ottomans. At the time of Pashley's arrival it was under Egyptian administration and there were palpable tensions between Christians and Muslims. In Volume 1, Pashley begins his journey in the western town of Chania, and his lively narrative weaves contemporary observations about Cretans with a discussion of the island's rich history.
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South by Southeast: The History and Archaeology of Southeast Crete from Myrtos to Kato Zakros
South by Southeast: The History and Archaeology of Southeast
Crete from Myrtos to Kato Zakros publishes the proceedings of
the conference of the same name held in Pacheia Ammos (Crete) in
July 2017. Its aim is to investigate the settlement patterns,
maritime connectivity, and material culture of the southeast of
Crete in a diachronic fashion, in an attempt to define it as a
region and trace its history. The title South by
Southeast , an ironic take on Alfred Hitchcock's movie,
North by Northwest , encapsulates the uncertainty of what
exactly the Southeast means and our need to clarify its
geographical limits and cultural span. The papers presented focus
primarily on the archaeology of the sites along the coastal strip
spanning between the Myrtos Valley and Kato Zakros, an area that
has time and again produced evidence of interconnection. Indeed one
of the most important aspects surfacing from the volume is the
evidence for the diachronic existence of the Southeast as a
distinct cultural entity. The elements that tied the sites together
shifted at times, forcing us to evaluate the concept of region as a
flexible one that reflects different ways of defining a community.
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