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Iraq Beyond the Headlines : History, Archaeology, and War.
This book is the first authoritative and up-to-date survey of the history of Iraq from earliest times to the present in any language. It presents a concise narrative of the rich and varied history of this land, drawing on political, social, economic, artistic, technological, and intellectual materia...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Singapore :
World Scientific Publishing Company,
2005.
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| Colección: | Series on the Iraq War and its consequences.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- List of Illustrations; Preface; Chapter 1 Beginnings Modern and Ancient; 1. What is Iraq?; 2. The Birthplace of Civilization; 3. Production of Food: An Important Transition for the Human Race; 4. Settlement in the Plains; 5. A Durable Peasant Culture; 6. The First Cities; Bibliographical Note to Chapter 1; Chapter 2 Early City States and Empires; 1. New Polities; 2. Ur of the Chaldees; 3. The Rise of Kingship; 4. The City Shuruppak; 5. Lagash Nippur and Umma; 6. Akkad: The First Empire; 7. The Kingdom of Ur; Bibliographical Note to Chapter 2; Chapter 3 The Age of Hammurabi.
- 1. The Amorites and Their Way of Life2. Shamshi-Adad King of Northern Mesopotamia; 3. Rim-Sin King of Larsa; 4. Hammurabi King of Babylon and His Laws; 5. Law Society and Literature; 6. The End of Amorite Period; Bibliographical Note to Chapter 3; Chapter 4 A Babylonian Nation-State; 1. The Kassite People and Their Society; 2. Kassite Government; 3. International Relations; 4. Kassite Civilization; 6. Hurrians in Mesopotamia; 7. The End of Kassite Rute and the Renewal of Isin; Bibliographical Note to Chapter 4; Chapter 5 The Assyrian Achievement; 1. The Land and Its City.
- 2. The First Assyrian Empire3. The Second Assyrian Empire; 4. Two Assyrian Kings; 5. Assyrian Cuiture of the First Miiiennium B.C.E.; 6. The Fall of Assyria; Bibliographical Note to Chapter 5; Chapter 6 Babylon and Her Empire; 1. The Land and Its City; 2. Babylonian Economy and Society; 3. Babylon and the World; 4. The Persian Empire; Bibtiographicat Note to Chapter 6; Chapter 7 Mesopotamia between Two Worlds; 1. Alexander the Great and His Successors; 2. Life in Hellenistic Babylonia; 3. Babylonian Cuiture and Economy; 4. The Rise of Parthia; 5. Parthian Society; 6. Parthian Mesopotamia.
- 7. Rome in Mesopotamia8. Parthian Cities; 9. The End of Mesopotamian Civilization and the Downfall of Parthia; Bibliographical Note to Chapter 7; Chapter 8 Iraq between Iran and Arabia; 1. The Sassanians and Their Subjects; 2. Sassanian Civilization; 3. The Sassanian Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire; 4. Arab Settlement in Mesopotamia; 5. Western Asia in the Seventh Century; Bibliographical Note to Chapter 8; Chapter 9 The Muslim Conquest of Iraq; 1. The Mission of Muhammad; 2. Arabian Catiphs and the Conquests of Iraq; 3. Islam and the Arabs in Iraq; 4. Leadership of the Muslim Wortd.
- 5. Divisions within Islam6. Commerce and Business; 7. Deveiopments in Arabic-Islamic Culture; Bibilographical Note to Chapter 9; Chapter 10 The Age of Baghdad and Samarra; 1. The Abbasid Catiphate; 2. Baghdad and Its Civitization; 3. Samarra and the Growth of Local Dynasties; 4. Medieval Iraq; 5. The Transition Movement; 6. Decline and Fall of the Abbasid Caliphate; Bibliographical Note to Chapter 10; Chapter 11 Iraq in the Ottoman Empire; 1. Iraq under Mongol Rule; 2. Iraq under Turkish Rule; 3. The Ottomans and Their Subjects; 4. Mamluk Iraq; 5. Ottoman Weakness and Reform.