{"product_id":"ancient-history-from-below-subaltern-experiences-and-actions-in-context-paperback","title":"Ancient History from Below: Subaltern Experiences and Actions in Context - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCyril Courrier\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJulio Cesar Magalh綟s de Oliveira\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf ancient history is particularly susceptible to a top-down approach, due to the nature of our evidence and its traditional exploitation by modern scholars, another ancient history-'from below'-is actually possible. This volume examines the possibilities and challenges involved in writing it.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDespite undeniable advances in recent decades, 'our slowness to reconstruct plausible visions of almost any aspect of society beyond the top-most strata of wealth, power or status' (as Nicholas Purcell has put it) remains a persistent feature of the field. Therefore, this book concerns a historical field and social groups that are still today neglected by modern scholarship. However, writing ancient history 'from below' means much more than taking into account the anonymous masses, the subaltern classes and the non-elites. Our task is also, in the felicitous expression coined by Walter Benjamin, 'to brush history against the grain, ' to rescue the viewpoint of the subordinated, the traditions of the oppressed. In other words, we should understand the bulk of ancient populations in light of their own experience and their own reactions to that experience. But, how do we do such a history? What sources can we use? What methods and approaches can we employ? What concepts are required to this endeavour? The contributions mainly engage with questions of theory and methodology, but they also constitute inspiring case studies in their own right, ranging from classical Greece to the late antique world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book is aimed not only at readers working on classical Greece, republican and imperial Rome and late antiquity but at anyone interested in 'bottom-up' history and social and population history in general. Although the book is primarily intended for scholars, it will also appeal to graduate and undergraduate students of history, archaeology and classical studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCyril Courrier is Associate Professor of Roman History at Aix-Marseille University\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003eCNRS, France, and junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eLa pl鐫e de Rome et sa culture (fin du IIe s. av. J.-C.-fin du Ier s. ap. J.-C.) \u003c\/i\u003e(2014) and co-editor (with Sandrine Agusta-Boularot) of the ninth volume of \u003ci\u003eInscriptions latines de Narbonnaise \u003c\/i\u003ededicated to the city of Narbonne (2021).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulio Cesar Magalh綟s de Oliveira is Professor of Ancient History at the University of S縊 Paulo, Brazil. He is the author of Potestas Populi\u003cem\u003e: Participation Populaire et action collective dans les villes de l'Afrique romaine tardive \u003c\/em\u003e(2012) and \u003ci\u003eSociedade e Cultura na ﾁfrica Romana \u003c\/i\u003e(2020).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 292\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.67 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 25, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52631551344947,"sku":"9781032078809","price":100.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/WdmtzB8TYm9781032078809.webp?v=1762185255","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/ancient-history-from-below-subaltern-experiences-and-actions-in-context-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}