Connectivity, roads and transport: essays on Roman roads to speak to other disciplines? - SUSAN E. ALCOCK, JOHN BODEL AND RICHARD J. A. TALBERT (edd.), HIGHWAYS, BYWAYS, AND ROAD SYSTEMS IN THE PRE-MODERN WORLD (The Ancient World: Comparative Histories; Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester 2012). Pp. xx + 289, figs. 66. ISBN 978-0-470-67425-3. $134.95.

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 692-695
Author(s):  
Ray Laurence
Keyword(s):  
Ancient World ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Road Systems

Book Reviews: Vie e mezzi di comunicazione in Italia e Spagna in età contemporanea (Networks and Means of Communication in Contemporary Italy and Spain), Bristol's Stage Coaches, Wet Britches and Muddy Boots: A History of Travel in Victorian America, Aerocity. Quand l'avion fait la ville (Aerocity: When the Plane Made the City, Paddington Station, Its History and Architecture, Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre-Modern World, Eastern European Railways in Transition: Nineteenth to Twenty-First Centuries, Companion to Road Passenger Transport History: Public Road Passenger Transport in Great Britain, Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, Autos, Rutas y Turismo: El Automóvil Club Argentino y el Estado (Cars, Roads and Tourism: The Argentinean Motor Club and State, Tales of Transit: Narrative Migrant Spaces in Atlantic Perspective, 1850–1950, Channelling Mobilities: Migration and Globalisation in the Suez Canal and Beyond, 1869–1914, Transport and the Industrial City. Manchester and the Canal Age, 1750–1850, Business of Transatlantic Migration between Europe and the United States, 1900–1914

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-270
Author(s):  
Gabriele Balbi ◽  
Dan Bogart ◽  
Kurt R. Bell ◽  
Koos Bosma ◽  
Harry Gregory ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Passenger Transport ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
Public Road ◽  
Road Systems ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

Part II Predominant Security Challenges and International Law, International Security, Ch.15 Contested Territory

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Borgen Christopher J
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
International Security ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Territorial Disputes ◽  
Public International Law ◽  
Security Challenges

This chapter describes the theory and practice of territorial contestation, past, present, and possibly future. It sketches the evolution of the so-called ‘modes of acquisition’ of territory and other concepts through different eras. Territorial disputes are perhaps the quintessential problem of public international law. In its transformation from the ancient world, through feudalism, and into the Westphalian system of States, territory has been repeatedly reconceptualized and reorganized from an era of frontiers to a modern world segmented by borders. This modern compartmentalization of territory emphasizes the concept of rightful ownership of title. The chapter then looks at the methods of resolving territorial disputes. It discusses political and military responses to territorial contests and judicial resolution. The chapter focuses on the particular role that recognition plays in resolving territorial disputes.

scholarly journals “INDUSTRIAL” ROCKS AND MINERALS IN STRABO’S ANCIENT WORLD (1ST CENTURY A.D.)

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 218
Author(s):  
A. Iordanidis
Keyword(s):  
Precious Metals ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Computer Hardware ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Gold Silver ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Number Of Citations

Industrial rocks and minerals of the modern world comprise of natural products applied in e.g. energy, cement, plastics, fillers, food, computer hardware etc. Indeed, the applications of these minerals are enormous and versatile. On the other hand, industrialization had not occurred during the 1st century A.D., when Strabo, the famous geographer of the Roman era lived. Thus, the term “industrial” used in this study has a rather philological meaning and refers to the useful rocks and minerals in the ancient times. Metallic ores (copper, iron, zinc etc.), precious metals (gold, silver) and earth minerals (e.g. Kimolo’s earth, Chalkidiki’s earth, Sinopi’s earth etc.) are not included in this study. Humans of the antiquity needed building rocks, medical and pharmaceautical minerals, fertilizers for their crops, sealing agents and millstones, just to mention a few of them. The identification and classification of these valuable “industrial” rocks and minerals, mentioned in Strabo’s Geographica, is the scope of this work. The spatial distribution of these mineral resources in the ancient world of that time, is also studied. The main industrial rocks and minerals are (in descending order of the number of citations): salt, marble, asphalt, quarry rocks, sulphur, millstones, pyroclastics, clays, soda (sodium carbonate), naphtha (petroleum), asbestos and sand.

2. Waging holy wars

2021 ◽  
pp. 18-36
Author(s):  
Jolyon Mitchell ◽  
Joshua Rey
Keyword(s):  
Ancient World ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Religious Activity ◽  
Holy War ◽  
Communal Life ◽  
Total Integration ◽  
Holy Place

‘Raging holy wars’ examines holy wars, beginning with an analysis of the integration of war and religion in the ancient world. Is a particular holy war fought to achieve a religious goal, such as converts or possession of a holy place; or is the war a religious activity in itself? In classical civilizations, it has quite often been the latter. As one moves toward the modern world, with its more universal sense of religion, and a less total integration of religion into communal life, the former becomes more of a factor. Perhaps the most controversial way to raise this question is the case of jihad. The chapter then considers the crusades.

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