Susan Pollock

Ancient Mesopotamia

Herausgeber: Wright, Rita P.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Innovative study of the early state and urban societies in Mesopotamia, c. 5000 to 2100 BC.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9780521573344
• ISBN-10: 0521573343
• Artikelnr.: 31188786

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Geographic setting and environment
3. Settlement patterns
4. Making a living: tributary economics of the fifth and fourth millennia
5. A changing way of life: the oikos-based economy of the third millennium
6. The growth of bureaucracy
7. Ideology and images of power
8. Death and the ideology of community.