Iraq Beyond The Headlines : History, Archaeology, and War.
Key Features:Though there are various good books on ancient and modern Iraq, there is no other that attempts the whole, in a unified narrative, including such seldom treated periods as Mongol and Ottoman rule in IraqBased on primary sources and scholarship in seven languages, including Sumerian, Akk...
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Singapore :
World Scientific Publishing Company,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- 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 Life
- 2. 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 Empire
- 3. 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 Mesopotamia
- 8. 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 Islam
- 6. 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
- 6. Iraq in the Late Nineteenth Century
- 7. Pressures of Modernity
- Bibliographical Note to Chapter 11
- Chapter 12 Colonization and Monarchy
- 1. The First World War
- 2. The Conquest of Iraq and Its Governance
- 3. A New Monarchy
- 4. Aspects of Iraqi Culture under the Monarchy
- 5. Weakness and War
- 6. Archaeology in Iraq
- 7. A Time of Revolution
- Bibliographical Note to Chapter 12
- Chapter 13 The Republic of Iraq
- 1. The Qasim Regime
- 2. Iraqi Culture and Society
- 2. Saddam Hussein and War with Iran
- 3. Archaeotogy in Iraq
- 4. The Ba'th Party.
- 5. The Invasion of Kuwait
- 6. The Embargo and Its Toll
- 6. The American invasion of iraq and the Destruction of Cultural Heritage
- Bibilographical Note to Chapter 13
- Chapter 14 Archaeology Past and Present in Iraq
- Bibilographical Note to Chapter 14
- Chapter 15 The Iraq Museum and the Future of the Past
- Atabaster Head from Uruk ca. 3300-3000 B.C.E. (IM 45434)
- Atabaster Vase from Uruk ca. 3300-3000 B.C.E. (IM 19606)
- Diorite Statue of Enmetena from Ur ca. 2460 B.C.E. (IM 5)
- Inlaid Harp from Ur ca. 2550-2400 B.C.E. IM (8694)
- Copper-Alloy Statue Made for Naram-Sin ca. 2254-2218 B.C.E. (IM 77823)
- Ivory Furniture Panel from Nimrud ca. 745-727 B.C.E. (IM 61898)
- Cylinder Seats from Kish and Girsu ca. 2420-2220 B.C.E. (From top IM 2780 13239 9709 10958)
- Bibliographical Note to Chapter 1 5
- Chapter 16 International and National Legal Regimes for the Protecdon of Archaeological Heritage
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The international Legal Regime
- 3. United States Domestic Law and the international Art Market
- 4. Problems in Controlling the International Art Market: The Paradigm of Iraq
- 5. Conclusion
- Bibliographical Note to Chapter 16
- Appendix Iraqi Libraries Research Centers and Centers for the Arts.