The Trans-Pacific Partnership : outlook and opportunities : hearing before the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, first session, August 1, 2013

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910704821803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington : , : U.S. Government Printing Office, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (iii, 86 pages)
• Soggetti: Free trade - United States; Free trade - Pacific Area; Foreign trade regulation - United States; Foreign trade regulation - Pacific Area; United States Commerce Pacific Area; Pacific Area Commerce United States; United States Foreign economic relations Pacific Area; Pacific Area Foreign economic relations United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from title screen (viewed on Oct. 18, 2013).; Paper version available for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office.; "Serial no. 113-45."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.

A state of mixture : Christians, Zoroastrians, and Iranian political culture in late Antiquity / / Richard E. Payne

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910797237003321
• Autore: Payne Richard E. <1981->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 0-520-96153-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Collana: Transformation of the Classical Heritage ; ; 56
• Disciplina: 275.5/03
• Soggetti: Christianity and other religions - Zoroastrianism; Christianity and politics - Iran - History - To 1500; Zoroastrianism - Relations - Christianity; Christians - Iran - Social conditions - To 1500; Iran Civilization To 640
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- A Note on Names, Translations, and Transliterations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Myth of Zoroastrian Intolerance -- 2. Belonging to a Land -- 3. Christian Law Making and Iranian Political Practice -- 4. Creating a Christian Aristocracy -- 5. The Christian Symbolics of Power in a Zoroastrian Empire -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Christian communities flourished during late antiquity in a Zoroastrian political system, known as the Iranian Empire, that integrated culturally and geographically disparate territories from Arabia to Afghanistan into its institutions and networks. Whereas previous studies have regarded Christians as marginal, insular, and often persecuted participants in this empire, Richard Payne demonstrates their integration into elite networks, adoption of Iranian political practices and imaginaries, and participation in imperial institutions. The rise of Christianity in Iran depended on the Zoroastrian theory and practice of hierarchical, differentiated inclusion, according to which Christians, Jews, and others occupied legitimate places in Iranian political culture in positions subordinate to the imperial religion. Christians, for their part, ; positioned themselves in a political culture not of their own making, with recourse to their own ideological and institutional resources, ranging from the writing of saints' lives to the judicial arbitration of bishops. In placing the social history of East Syrian Christians at the center of the Iranian imperial story, A State of Mixture helps explain the endurance of a culturally diverse empire across four centuries.