Bronze Age Bureaucracy

Bronze Age Bureaucracy
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 497
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ISBN-10 : 9781107513273
ISBN-13 : 1107513278
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Synopsis Bronze Age Bureaucracy by : Nicholas Postgate

This book describes ten different government archives of cuneiform tablets from Assyria, using them to analyze the social and economic character of the Middle Assyrian state, as well as the roles and practices of writing. The tablets, many of which have not been edited or translated, were excavated at the capital, Assur, and in the provinces, and they give vivid details to illuminate issues such as offerings to the national shrine, the economy and political role of elite households, palace etiquette, and state-run agriculture. This book concentrates particularly on how the Assyrian use of written documentation affected the nature and ethos of government, and compares this to contemporary practices in other palatial administrations at Nuzi, Alalah, Ugarit, and in Greece.

Bronze Age Bureaucracy

Bronze Age Bureaucracy
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 497
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ISBN-10 : 9781107043756
ISBN-13 : 1107043751
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Bronze Age Bureaucracy by : Nicholas Postgate

This book describes ten different government archives of cuneiform tablets from Assyria, using them to analyze the social and economic character of the Middle Assyrian state, as well as the roles and practices of writing. The tablets, many of which have not been edited or translated, were excavated at the capital, Assur, and in the provinces, and they give vivid details to illuminate issues such as offerings to the national shrine, the economy and political role of elite households, palace etiquette, and state-run agriculture. This book concentrates particularly on how the Assyrian use of written documentation affected the nature and ethos of government, and compares this to contemporary practices in other palatial administrations at Nuzi, Alalah, Ugarit, and in Greece.

The Amorites and the Bronze Age Near East

The Amorites and the Bronze Age Near East
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 457
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ISBN-10 : 9781108495967
ISBN-13 : 1108495966
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis The Amorites and the Bronze Age Near East by : Aaron A. Burke

A diachronic, yet nuanced study of Amorite identity from Mesopotamia to Egypt over a millennium of Bronze Age history.

The Textile Revolution in Bronze Age Europe

The Textile Revolution in Bronze Age Europe
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 355
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ISBN-10 : 9781108493598
ISBN-13 : 1108493599
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis The Textile Revolution in Bronze Age Europe by : Serena Sabatini

Discusses both the revolutionary cultural, social, and economic impact of Bronze Age textile production in Europe and innovative methodologies for future studies.

The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant

The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 433
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ISBN-10 : 9781107111462
ISBN-13 : 1107111463
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Synopsis The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant by : Raphael Greenberg

An up-to-date, systematic depiction of Bronze Age societies of the Levant, their evolution, and their interactions and entanglements with neighboring regions.

Bureaucracy and the State in Early China

Bureaucracy and the State in Early China
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 385
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ISBN-10 : 9780521884471
ISBN-13 : 0521884470
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Synopsis Bureaucracy and the State in Early China by : Feng Li

This ook redefines the bureaucracy of Ancient Chinese society during the Western Zhou period. The analysis is based on inscriptions of royal edicts from the period carved into bronze vessels. The inscriptions clarify the political and social construction of the Western Zhou and the ways in which it exercised its authority.

Bronze Age Bureaucracy

Bronze Age Bureaucracy
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ISBN-10 : 110733893X
ISBN-13 : 9781107338937
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Debt and Indebtedness at Emar

Debt and Indebtedness at Emar
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 652
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ISBN-10 : 9781501515309
ISBN-13 : 1501515306
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Synopsis Debt and Indebtedness at Emar by : Maurizio Viano

This book is the first comprehensive study of debts and credit system at Emar. It focuses on the socio-economic aspects of credit access and indebtedness as well as on the motivations behind debts and debt settlement in the city of Emar. The credit system is analyzed through several factors: the purpose of debts, i.e., productive or consumptive; the procedures for granting loans; the strategies put in place to meet an obligation and to cope with economic difficulties; the consequences of non-fulfillment, which may lead to servitude or slavery; the different types of slavery; slave prices; the mechanisms of enslavement; and termination of slavery. Moneylending practices and the formation of servile conditions at Emar are studied in the context of the Syrian economy aiming to understand whether the Emar evidence conforms with a socio political and economic crisis that is generally acknowledged to have struck Syria, Anatolia and Northern Mesopotamia at the end of the Late Bronze Age. This work is of sure relevance for scholars interested in socio-economic history, not only of the pertinent historical-geographical area.

Routledge Handbook of the Global History of Warfare

Routledge Handbook of the Global History of Warfare
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 654
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ISBN-10 : 9780429795466
ISBN-13 : 0429795467
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Synopsis Routledge Handbook of the Global History of Warfare by : Kaushik Roy

This handbook examines key aspects of the development of the global history of warfare and the changing patterns of warfare over time. Although scholarship has long eschewed a chronological narrative of the evolution of warfare that privileges the Western experience, global histories of warfare have had difficulty avoiding an overemphasis on the West. The present volume is a collection of themes rather than a history per se; it provides important perspectives on the emergence of warfare as a global historical experience from the ancient past to the present day. Drawing together numerous experts, it tells a broader, more inclusive story of the global, human experience with wars and warfare. The 35 cahtpers are organised in eight thematic parts: Part I: Origins of Warfare Part II: Polities and Armed Forces in the Pre-Modern Era Part III: Steppe Nomads of Eurasia Part IV: Naval Warfare and Piracy in the Pre-Industrial World Part V: The Impact of Gunpowder Part VI: Transition from Industrial to Total War Part VII: Wars of Decolonisation and Cold War Part VIII: Postmodern/New Wars These Parts offer an overview of the global experience of warfare to help readers understand how the wars and the militaries we see today have been shaped by historical developments across the globe. This handbook will be of great interest to students of military history, naval history, strategic studies and world history in general.

Ancient Western Asia Beyond the Paradigm of Collapse and Regeneration (1200-900 BCE)

Ancient Western Asia Beyond the Paradigm of Collapse and Regeneration (1200-900 BCE)
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Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 660
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ISBN-10 : 9781479834631
ISBN-13 : 1479834637
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Synopsis Ancient Western Asia Beyond the Paradigm of Collapse and Regeneration (1200-900 BCE) by : Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault

New results and interpretations challenging the notion of a uniform, macroregional collapse throughout the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean Ancient Western Asia Beyond the Paradigm of Collapse and Regeneration (1200–900 BCE) presents select essays originating in a two-year research collaboration between New York University and Paris Sciences et Lettres. The contributions here offer new results and interpretations of the processes and outcomes of the transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron Age in three broad regions: Anatolia, northern Mesopotamia, and the Levant. Together, these challenge the notion of a uniform, macroregional collapse throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, followed by the regeneration of political powers. Current research on newly discovered or reinterpreted textual and material evidence from Western Asia instead suggests that this transition was characterized by a diversity of local responses emerging from diverse environmental settings and culture complexes, as evident in the case studies collected here in history, archaeology, and art history. The editors avoid particularism by adopting a regional organization, with the aim of identifying and tracing similar processes and outcomes emerging locally across the three regions. Ultimately, this volume reimagines the Late Bronze–Iron Age transition as the emergence of a set of recursive processes and outcomes nested firmly in the local cultural interactions of western Asia before the beginning of the new, unifying era of Assyrian imperialism.