Contested Territories from Ancient Narratives and Modern Contexts
Land Claims Unveiled
Contested Territories from Ancient Narratives and Modern Contexts
Land Claims Unveiled
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Description
Looking at contested territories and land claims as multifaceted concepts that influence and shape identities, this volume offers a broad range of case studies from antiquity to the modern era.
The contributors examine how power relations and disputes over land can be used as a reference point to understand territory-related motivations and sociopolitical shifts throughout history. Drawing on archaeology, political geography and philology, this interdisciplinary approach reveals transformations in land claims in regional, national and international contexts.
The thematic organization of this volume mirrors the multifaceted nature of land claims, addressing theoretical, methodological and practical considerations. The three parts explore material culture and land appropriation through case studies, providing comprehensive overviews from the Bronze Age, Archaic and Classical periods, Roman Empire and modern times. The result is a study that expands the term 'land claims' beyond its politico-military scope to include diplomatic, religious, cultural and policy-related claims as an all-inclusive term that can be used in the examination of power dynamics and territory.
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Land Claims and Collective Identities in Ancient and Modern Contexts, Antonis Kourkoulakos & Vasileios Balaskas (University of Tilburg, the Netherlands & Universidad de Málaga, Spain)
PART I: New Grounds: Land and the Making of Selfhood
Chapter 1. 'You Ask me for Arcadia? You Ask Too Much': The Spartans and the Beautiful Plain of Tegea, Giovanni Ingarao (Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy)
Chapter 2. Exiled Poet to Lonely King? 'Claiming' the Land in Ov. Pont. 2.9, Laura Loporcaro (Ghent University, Belgium)
Chapter 3.The Sanctuaries of Athena Areia and Demeter Eleusinia: The Plataeans and the Memory of the Persian Wars, Alice Solazzo (Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy)
Chapter 4. Creating Histories in Past and Present: The Case of Ancient Ionia, Rik Vaessen (RAAP Archaeological Consultancy, the Netherlands)
PART II: Contested Grounds: Appropriation and the Struggle for Land
Chapter 5. Coastal Sanctuaries and LBA Eastern Mediterranean Networks: A Seafarer's Perspective, Andreas Ladas & Dimitris Papageorgiou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
Chapter 6. Bridges as Symbols of Domination over Nature in Roman Times, Anna Klara Falke (University of Münster, Germany)
Chapter 7. How to Claim a Land: Use, Abuse and Contrast of Classical Models in Early Modern Spanish Historiography, Pamina Fernández Camacho (Universidad de Cádiz, Spain)
Chapter 8. Cross-temporal Land Claims and the Physical Concept of History: The Case of Ancient Rome and Contemporary Zimbabwe, Obert Bernard Mlambo (University of Zimbabwe)
PART III: Land as an Institution: Politics and Collective Memory
Chapter 9.Collective Memory and Ethnic Identity Formation in Amuq Valley during EIA: A Theory of Practice Approach, Dimitris Papageorgiou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
Chapter 10. Ploughing for a New Jerusalem: Claiming and Abandoning Lands in Montanist Phrygia, Romeo Gessaga (University of Oxford, UK)
Chapter 11. A Claim to the Land? Rural Slaves and the(ir) land in Ancient Greece, Marios Anastasiadis (New York University, USA) & Jason Porter (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Chapter 12. Claiming the Hellenicity of Asia Minor (1919-1922): Archaeological Activities in the Context of Megali Idea, Vasileios Balaskas & Antonis Kourkoulakos (Universidad de Málaga, Spain & University of Tilburg, the Netherlands)
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Product details
| Published | 15 Oct 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781350575455 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 25 bw illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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