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Product Identifiers
- PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
- ISBN-100197263909
- ISBN-139780197263907
- eBay Product ID (ePID)57180567
Product Key Features
- Number of Pages220 Pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication NameRegime Change in the Ancient Near East and Egypt : from Sargon of Agade to Saddam Hussein
- SubjectMiddle East / Iraq, World / Middle Eastern, Middle East / General
- Publication Year2007
- TypeTextbook
- AuthorHarriet Crawford
- Subject AreaPolitical Science, History
- SeriesProceedings of the British Academy Ser.
- FormatHardcover
Dimensions
- Item Height0.8 in
- Item Weight29.8 Oz
- Item Length10 in
- Item Width7.7 in
Additional Product Features
- Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
- LCCN2007-299377
- Dewey Edition22
- Series Volume NumberVol. 136
- CLASSIFICATION_METADATA{"IsNonfiction":["Yes"],"IsOther":["No"],"IsAdult":["No"],"MuzeFormatDesc":["Hardcover"],"IsChildren":["No"],"Genre":["HISTORY","POLITICAL SCIENCE"],"Topic":["Middle East / General","World / Middle Eastern","Middle East / Iraq"],"IsTextBook":["Yes"],"IsFiction":["No"]}
- IllustratedYes
- Dewey Decimal939.4
- Table Of Content1. Steady States: Introduction and acknowledgementsPart I: Mesopotamia and Iran2. Dynastic change and institutional administration in Southern Mesopotamia in the latter 3rd millennium BCE: Evidence from seals and sealing practices3. The Mesopotamian 'Rod and Ring': Icon of Righteous Kingship and Balance of Power between Palace and Temple4. Social Change and the Transition from the Third Dynasty of Ur to the Old Babylonian Kingdoms c.2112-1595 BCE5. The Transition of Babylonia from the Neo-Babylonian Empire to Achaemenid Rule6. Persian conquerors, Babylonian captivators7. The Royal Hunt in Islamic Art: a symbol of power or the power of a symbol?Part II: Egypt8. The Hyksos in Egypt 1600 BCE: New Rulers without an Administration9. Tradition, innovation and researching the past in Libyan, Kushite, and Saite Egypt10. Egypt and the Graeco-Roman world: from Ptolemaic Kingdom to Roman Province11. New Rule over Old Structures: Egypt after the Muslim ConquestAfterword12. Regime Change in Iraq from the Mongols to the Present: An Essay in haute vulgarisation
- SynopsisThe manner in which government practices and personnel survive the violent disruption of regime change is an issue of current relevance, yet is a subject which has largely been ignored by modern scholarship. These essays, covering more than four thousand years of history, discuss the continuity of administration and royal iconography in successful changes of regime in Egypt, Mesopotamia and Iran.Recurring patterns are identified in ten case studies, ranging from late third millennium Mesopotamia to early Islamic Egypt. A summary of the recent history of Iraq suggests that these regularities have lessons for the modern geopolitics of today., The manner in which government practices and personnel survive the violent disruption of regime change is an issue of current relevance, yet is a subject which has largely been ignored by modern scholarship. These essays, covering more than four thousand years of history, discuss the continuity of administration and royal iconography in successful changes of regime in Egypt, Mesopotamia and Iran., The manner in which government practices and personnel survive the violent disruption of regime change is an issue of current relevance, yet is a subject which has largely been ignored by modern scholarship. These essays, covering more than four thousand years of history, discuss the continuity of administration and royal iconography in successful changes of regime in Egypt, Mesopotamia and Iran. Recurring patterns are identified in ten case studies, ranging from late third millennium Mesopotamia to early Islamic Egypt. A summary of the recent history of Iraq suggests that these regularities have lessons for the modern geopolitics of today., The manner in which government practices and personnel survive the disruption of regime change is an issue of great current relevance. These essays discuss the continuity of administration and royal iconography in successful changes of regime in Egypt, Mesopotamia and Iran. The volume closes with a summary of the recent history of Iraq.
- LC Classification NumberDS62.2
- Copyright Date2006
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