Babylon : Mesopotamia and the birth of civilization

Title
  1. Babylon : Mesopotamia and the birth of civilization / Paul Kriwaczek.
Published by
  1. New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2012.
  2. ©2010
Author
  1. Kriwaczek, Paul.

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Description
  1. viii, 310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Summary
  1. Historian Kriwaczek (Yiddish Civilization) brings to life the world of ancient Mesopotamia and the city of Babylon, tracing their rise from a loose federation to a monarchy to the rise of ancient Sumerian civilization, with its tales of the Great Flood and the epics of semidivine heroes such as Gilgamesh.
Subject
  1. To 634
  2. HISTORY > Ancient
  3. Civilization
  4. Politics and government
  5. Hochkultur
  6. Iraq > Civilization > To 634
  7. Babylon (Extinct city) > Civilization
  8. Iraq > History > To 634
  9. Babylon (Extinct city) > History
  10. Iraq > Politics and government
  11. Babylon (Extinct city) > Politics and government
  12. Iraq
  13. Iraq > Babylon (Extinct city)
  14. Babylon
  15. Mesopotamien
Genre/Form
  1. Informational works.
  2. History.
  3. Documents d'information.
Contents
  1. Lessons from the Past : an Introduction -- Kingship Descends from Heaven : The Urban Revolution Before 4000 BCE -- The City of Gilgamesh : Temple Rule between c. 4000 and 3000 BCE -- The Flood : a Caesura in History -- Big Men and Kings : The City-States, c. 3000 to 2300 BCE -- Rulers of the Four Quarters : The Bronze Heroic Age, c. 2300 to 2200 BCE -- Sumer Resurgent : The Dirigiste State, c. 2100 to 2000 BCE -- Old Babylon : The Culmination, c. 1900 to 1600 BCE -- Empire of Ashur : Colossus of the First Millennium, c. 1800 BCE to 700 BCE -- Passing the Baton : an End and a Beginning after 700 BCE.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. First published: London : Atlantic Books, 2010.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.