The manner in which government practices and personnel survive the violent disruption of regime change is an issue of current relevance, yet is a subject which has largely been ignored by modern scholarship. These essays, covering more than four thousand years of history, discuss the continuity of administration and royal iconography in successful changes of regime in Egypt, Mesopotamia and Iran. Recurring patterns are identified in ten case studies, ranging from late third millennium Mesopotamia to early Islamic Egypt. A summary of the recent history of Iraq suggests that these regularities have lessons for the modern geopolitics of today.…mehr
The manner in which government practices and personnel survive the violent disruption of regime change is an issue of current relevance, yet is a subject which has largely been ignored by modern scholarship. These essays, covering more than four thousand years of history, discuss the continuity of administration and royal iconography in successful changes of regime in Egypt, Mesopotamia and Iran. Recurring patterns are identified in ten case studies, ranging from late third millennium Mesopotamia to early Islamic Egypt. A summary of the recent history of Iraq suggests that these regularities have lessons for the modern geopolitics of today.
* 1: Harriet Crawford: Steady States: Introduction and acknowledgements * Part I: Mesopotamia and Iran * 2: Richard Zettler: Dynastic change and institutional administration in Southern Mesopotamia in the latter 3rd millennium BCE: Evidence from seals and sealing practices * 3: Kathryn E. Slanski: The Mesopotamian 'Rod and Ring': Icon of Righteous Kingship and Balance of Power between Palace and Temple * 4: Tonia Sharlach: Social Change and the Transition from the Third Dynasty of Ur to the Old Babylonian Kingdoms c.2112-1595 BCE * 5: Michael Jursa: The Transition of Babylonia from the Neo-Babylonian Empire to Achaemenid Rule * 6: Erica Ehrenberg: Persian conquerors, Babylonian captivators * 7: Sheila Canby: The Royal Hunt in Islamic Art: a symbol of power or the power of a symbol? * Part II: Egypt * 8: Stephen Quirke: The Hyksos in Egypt 1600 BCE: New Rulers without an Administration * 9: Robert Morkot: Tradition, innovation and researching the past in Libyan, Kushite, and Saite Egypt * 10: Alan Bowman: Egypt and the Graeco-Roman world: from Ptolemaic Kingdom to Roman Province * 11: Petra Sijpesteijn: New Rule over Old Structures: Egypt after the Muslim Conquest * Afterword * 12: Peter Sluglett: Regime Change in Iraq from the Mongols to the Present: An Essay in haute vulgarisation
* 1: Harriet Crawford: Steady States: Introduction and acknowledgements * Part I: Mesopotamia and Iran * 2: Richard Zettler: Dynastic change and institutional administration in Southern Mesopotamia in the latter 3rd millennium BCE: Evidence from seals and sealing practices * 3: Kathryn E. Slanski: The Mesopotamian 'Rod and Ring': Icon of Righteous Kingship and Balance of Power between Palace and Temple * 4: Tonia Sharlach: Social Change and the Transition from the Third Dynasty of Ur to the Old Babylonian Kingdoms c.2112-1595 BCE * 5: Michael Jursa: The Transition of Babylonia from the Neo-Babylonian Empire to Achaemenid Rule * 6: Erica Ehrenberg: Persian conquerors, Babylonian captivators * 7: Sheila Canby: The Royal Hunt in Islamic Art: a symbol of power or the power of a symbol? * Part II: Egypt * 8: Stephen Quirke: The Hyksos in Egypt 1600 BCE: New Rulers without an Administration * 9: Robert Morkot: Tradition, innovation and researching the past in Libyan, Kushite, and Saite Egypt * 10: Alan Bowman: Egypt and the Graeco-Roman world: from Ptolemaic Kingdom to Roman Province * 11: Petra Sijpesteijn: New Rule over Old Structures: Egypt after the Muslim Conquest * Afterword * 12: Peter Sluglett: Regime Change in Iraq from the Mongols to the Present: An Essay in haute vulgarisation
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