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The political machine : assembling sovereignty in the Bronze Age Caucasus / Adam T. Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Adam T., author.
- Series:
- Rostovtzeff lectures
- The Rostovtzeff lectures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Material culture.
- Caucasus, South--Antiquities.
- Caucasus, South.
- South Caucasus.
- Antiquities.
- Bronze age--Caucasus, South.
- Bronze age.
- Material culture--Political aspects--Caucasus, South.
- Sovereignty.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 242 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2015]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- The Conditions of Sovereignty 4
- Machine Politics 7
- Bodies and Things 11
- Into the Caucasus 16
- Schematic 20
- Part I The Machinery of Sovereignty
- Chapter 1 On Assemblages and Machines 27
- Things and Objects 29
- The Exile of Things 33
- Nature Morte 40
- The Assemblage Assembled 43
- The Efficacy of Machines 48
- Sense. Sensibility, and Sentiment 54
- Chapter 2 On the Matter of Sovereignty 59
- Sovereignty Disassembled 61
- Prehistory and the Political 64
- Archaeologies of Sovereignty 67
- Assembly and Assemblage 72
- Origin Myths 73
- Wayward Things and the Dual Sovereign 78
- Exit Objects 1: Liberal Theory and Things 81
- Exit Objects 2: Marx and Matter 83
- Sovereign Matter, Governmental Machines 86
- The Sovereign Conditions 91
- Part II Assembling Sovereignty
- Chapter 3 The Civilization Machine in the Early Bronze Age 97
- The Kura-Araxes 102
- Sensibility 105
- Sense 110
- Sentiment 122
- An Early Bronze Age Public 125
- Chapter 4 The War Machine in the Middle Bronze Age 127
- The Caucasus in Transition 130
- Sensibility 138
- Sense 144
- Sentiment 148
- Territorialization and Contradiction 151
- Chapter 5 The Political Machine in the Late Bronze Age 154
- The Caucasus at the Beginning of the Late Bronze Age 157
- Sensibility 165
- Sense 171
- Sentiment 178
- The Enduring Political Machine 183
- Conclusion 186
- Erebuni-Yerevan 188
- Brother Axe 194.
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1400866502
- 9781400866502
- Publisher Number:
- 99978402614
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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