Babylon : Mesopotamia and the birth of civilization /
Kriwaczek, Paul.
Babylon : Mesopotamia and the birth of civilization / by Paul Kriwaczek. - New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, c2010. - viii, 310 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
First published: London : Atlantic Books, 2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
9781250000071 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1250000076 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2012003104
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.
DS69.5 / .K75 2012
935 Kri 2010
Babylon : Mesopotamia and the birth of civilization / by Paul Kriwaczek. - New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, c2010. - viii, 310 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
First published: London : Atlantic Books, 2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
9781250000071 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1250000076 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2012003104
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.
DS69.5 / .K75 2012
935 Kri 2010