Babylon : Mesopotamia and the birth of civilization
- Title
- Babylon : Mesopotamia and the birth of civilization / Paul Kriwaczek.
- Published by
- New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2012.
- ©2010
- Author
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Details
- Description
- viii, 310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- 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
- To 634
- HISTORY > Ancient
- Civilization
- Politics and government
- Hochkultur
- Iraq > Civilization > To 634
- Babylon (Extinct city) > Civilization
- Iraq > History > To 634
- Babylon (Extinct city) > History
- Iraq > Politics and government
- Babylon (Extinct city) > Politics and government
- Iraq
- Iraq > Babylon (Extinct city)
- Babylon
- Mesopotamien
- Genre/Form
- Informational works.
- History.
- Documents d'information.
- Contents
- 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
- Princeton University Library
- Note
- First published: London : Atlantic Books, 2010.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.