<div dir="ltr">We are pleased to announce the publication in paperback of<div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_kkmdwwxm0" alt="image.png" width="227" height="323" style="margin-right: 0px;"></div><div><br></div><div><h1 style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:15.6pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><b><i><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" color="#000000">Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World<u></u></font></i></b></h1><p><b><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight:normal">Edited by John Baines (University of Oxford), Henriette van der Blom (University of Birmingham), Yi Samuel Chen (University of Oxford) and Tim Rood (University of Oxford)<u></u></span></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">ISBN (Paperback) 9781800500266</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Price  £35 / $48<u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">(also available in hardback and ePDF formats)</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Pages 402, 32<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">figures, colour and black and white</span><u></u><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Book webpage: <u></u><a href="https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/historical-consciousness/" target="_blank">https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/historical-consciousness/</a></font></p></div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin:1.6em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:18px;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><i style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World</i> offers linked essays on uses of the past in prominent and diverse cultures in ancient civilizations across the world. The contributors are leading experts in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Sinology, Biblical Studies, Classics, and Maya Studies.</font></p><p style="margin:1.6em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:18px;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">This volume addresses crucial questions in current scholarship on historical consciousness and historiography. These questions include the formation of different traditions and the manifold uses of the past in particular socio-political contexts or circumstances; the ways in which these traditions and these types of cultural memory informed or contributed to the rise of more formal modes of historiography; interactions between formal modes of historiography and other traditions of historical consciousness during their transmission; and the implications of such interactions for cultural heritage, collective memory, and later understandings of history.</font></p><p style="margin:1.6em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:18px;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">By taking an interdisciplinary approach, this volume situates the rise of formal modes of historiography within a larger context of developments in historical consciousness and a wider web of intercommunicating discourses. It also uncovers intellectual processes, literary mechanisms, and social institutions involved in the construction of history. During the construction of ancient historiographies, while many local traditions persisted, some ancients gradually went beyond the temporal and spatial limitations of their local traditions, arriving at a more extended and unified timespan, a wider geographical region, and a common origin.</font></p><p style="margin:1.6em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:18px;text-align:justify"><fo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