Nicholas Postgate

Early Mesopotamia (eBook, ePUB)

Society and Economy at the Dawn of History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The roots of our modern world lie in this early civilisation, which saw the first urban society and the invention of writing. Postgate uses both historical and archaeological data to reveal this society's social and technological innovations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136788628
• Artikelnr.: 48799709

Autorenporträt

Postgate, Nicholas

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Prologue Part I: Setting the scene: Chapter 1. The land and the life
Chapter 2. The political framework
Chapter 3. The written record
Part II: The institutions: Chapter 4. City and countryside
Chapter 5. Household and family
Chapter 6. The temple
Chapter 7. The palace
Part III: The economic order: Chapter 8. Crops and livestock
Chapter 9. Water and land
Chapter 10. The domestic economy
Chapter 11. Foreign Trade
Part IV: The Social Order: Chapter 12. Craft and labour
Chapter 13. War and peace
Chapter 14. Religion and politics
Chapter 15. Laws and the law
Chapter 16. Order and disorder
Epilouge
Footnotes
Bibliography
Index