State Formation and State Decline in the Near and Middle East
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- Introduction -- Norman Yoffee: The Evolution of Fragility: The Resistible Rise and Irresistible Fall of Early States -- Walter Sommerfeld: Umweltzerstörung und ökologische Krisen im Alten Orient -- Daniel.T. Potts: Material Foundations...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag,
2016
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| Ausgabe: | 1st ed. |
| Schlagworte: | Ancient Near Eastern texts and studies |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (209 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- Introduction -- Norman Yoffee: The Evolution of Fragility: The Resistible Rise and Irresistible Fall of Early States -- Walter Sommerfeld: Umweltzerstörung und ökologische Krisen im Alten Orient -- Daniel.T. Potts: Material Foundations of Early States -- Helene Sader: The Formation and Decline of the Aramaean States in Iron Age Syria -- Bruce Routledge: Conditions of State Formation at the Edges of Empires: the Case of Iron Age Moab -- Christa Schäfer-Lichtenberger: Ethnicity and State Formation in the Levant during the Early Iron Age -- Josef Wiesehöfer: The Role of Lingua Francas and Communication Networks in the Process of Empire-Building: The Persian Empire -- Rainer Kessler: Political Elites in Ancient Judah: Continuity and Change -- Wim Raven: The first Arabic Empire and Modern Scholarship, 622-661 -- Afaf H. Rahim and Precious Zikhali: Cooperation over Trans-Boundery Water Resources Management in the Middle East -- Peter Sluglett: Still in the Wilderness? Iraq in 2015 -- Short Bios of Authors. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (209 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9783447194747 344719474X 9783447105651 3447105658 |