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Babylon : Mesopotamia and the birth of civilization / Paul Kriwaczek.

Kriwaczek, Paul. (Author).
  • Description: viii, 310 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press,
  • ISBN: 9781250000071 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 1250000076 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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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.
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.
Notes: First published: London : Atlantic Books, 2010.

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