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State formation and state decline in the Near and Middle East

Title
State formation and state decline in the Near and Middle East / edited by Rainer Kessler, Walter Sommerfeld and Leslie Tramontini.
Publication
Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2016.

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Additional Authors
  • Kessler, Rainer
  • Sommerfeld, Walter
  • Tramontini, Leslie
Description
200 pages; 24 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • In English, with one paper in German.
Contents
The Evolution of Fragility: The Resistible Rise and Irresistible Fall of Early States / Norman Yoffee -- Umweltzerstörung und ökologische Krisen im Alten Orient / Walter Sommerfeld -- Material Foundations of Early States / Daniel T. Potts -- The Formation and Decline of the Aramaean States in Iron Age Syria / Helene Sader -- Conditions of State Formation at the Edges of Empires: the Case of Iron Age Moab / Bruce Routledge -- Ethnicity and State Formation in the Levant during the Early Iron Age / Christa Schäfer-Lichtenberger -- The Role of Lingua Francas and Communication Networks in the Process of Empire-Building: The Persian Empire / Josef Wiesehöfer -- Political Elites in Ancient Judah: Continuity and Change / Rainer Kessler -- The first Arabic Empire and Modern Scholarship, 622661 / Wim Raven -- Cooperation over Trans-Boundary Water Resources Management in the Middle East / Afaf H. Rahim and Precious Zikhali -- Still in the Wilderness? Iraq in 2015 / Peter Sluglett.
Call Number
JFE 16-11165
ISBN
  • 9783447105651
  • 3447105658
OCLC
944086180
Title
State formation and state decline in the Near and Middle East / edited by Rainer Kessler, Walter Sommerfeld and Leslie Tramontini.
Publisher
Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2016.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Language
In English, with one paper in German.
Added Author
Kessler, Rainer, author, editor.
Sommerfeld, Walter, author, editor.
Tramontini, Leslie, editor.
Research Call Number
JFE 16-11165
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