This volume, now available in English, explores how Mesopotamia's urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality, leading to new forms of social interaction, and the development of the state, its laws and its religion to consolidate new managerial hierarchies in the region.
This volume, now available in English, explores how Mesopotamia's urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality, leading to new forms of social interaction, and the development of the state, its laws and its religion to consolidate new managerial hierarchies in the region.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Giorgio Buccellati is Research Professor in the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and in the Department of History at UCLA. He founded the Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, of which he served as first director from 1973 until 1983 and where he is now Director of the Mesopotamian Lab. He is currently Director of the International Institute for Mesopotamian Area Studies (IIMAS). With his wife, Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati, he received the Balzan Prize in 2021.
Inhaltsangabe
Part I: The Great Transformations 50,000 - 3,500 B. C. 1. The coming into being of society 2. The invention of territory 3. Control over nature 4. The reification of the word Part II: The Axle of Power 3,500 - 2,300 B. C. 5. Threshold to history 6. The nuclear territorial states 7. The expanded territorial states 8. Impulses beyond the territorial base Part III: The Explosion of Boundaries 2,300 - 2,100 B. C. 9. A quantum leap: the imperial experiment 10. The invention of the rivers 11. The invention of the steppe 12. A premature experiment Part IV: The Restructuring on a Regional Basis 2,100 - 1,600 B. C. 13. "Mesopotamia" and its regions 14. Hegemony and balances 15. Political strategies 16. Alternatives to the territorial state Part V: The World as a City 1,600 - 1,100 B. C. 17. International equilibrium 18. The two Lands of the Four River Banks 19. Local autonomies 20. New modalities Part VI: The Extreme Limits of Territoriality 1100-500 B. C. 21. From a universe of cities to the universal city 22. The restructuring of the parts 23. Imperial Ideology 24. The consolidation of the epigons 25. The state as it unfolds 26. Encounters.
Part I: The Great Transformations 50,000 - 3,500 B. C. 1. The coming into being of society 2. The invention of territory 3. Control over nature 4. The reification of the word Part II: The Axle of Power 3,500 - 2,300 B. C. 5. Threshold to history 6. The nuclear territorial states 7. The expanded territorial states 8. Impulses beyond the territorial base Part III: The Explosion of Boundaries 2,300 - 2,100 B. C. 9. A quantum leap: the imperial experiment 10. The invention of the rivers 11. The invention of the steppe 12. A premature experiment Part IV: The Restructuring on a Regional Basis 2,100 - 1,600 B. C. 13. "Mesopotamia" and its regions 14. Hegemony and balances 15. Political strategies 16. Alternatives to the territorial state Part V: The World as a City 1,600 - 1,100 B. C. 17. International equilibrium 18. The two Lands of the Four River Banks 19. Local autonomies 20. New modalities Part VI: The Extreme Limits of Territoriality 1100-500 B. C. 21. From a universe of cities to the universal city 22. The restructuring of the parts 23. Imperial Ideology 24. The consolidation of the epigons 25. The state as it unfolds 26. Encounters.
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