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001 2012003104
003 DLC
005 20120510083420.0
008 120127s2012 nyuabf b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2012003104
020 $a9781250000071 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a1250000076 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $z9781429941068 (ebook)
020 $z1429941065 (ebook)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn740628621
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050 00 $aDS69.5$b.K75 2012
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100 1 $aKriwaczek, Paul.
245 10 $aBabylon :$bMesopotamia and the birth of civilization /$cPaul Kriwaczek.
250 $a1st U.S. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bThomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press,$c2012.
300 $aviii, 310 p., [16] p. of plates :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
500 $aFirst published: London : Atlantic Books, 2010.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aLessons 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.
520 $aHistorian 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.
651 0 $aIraq$xCivilization$yTo 634.
651 0 $aBabylon (Extinct city)$xCivilization.
651 0 $aIraq$xHistory$yTo 634.
651 0 $aBabylon (Extinct city)$xHistory.
651 0 $aIraq$xPolitics and government.
651 0 $aBabylon (Extinct city)$xPolitics and government.