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From Mesopotamia to Iraq : a concise history
- Title
- From Mesopotamia to Iraq : a concise history / Hans J. Nissen and Peter Heine ; translated by Hans J. Nissen.
- Author
- Nissen, Hans Jörg.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
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- Additional Authors
- Heine, Peter.
- Description
- viii, 180 p. : ill., maps; 22 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Von Mesopotamien zum Irak. English
- Alternative Title
- Von Mesopotamien zum Irak.
- Subjects
- Note
- Translated from the German.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the German.
- Contents
- Landscape, climate, population -- The beginnings of sedentary life (ca. 10,000-4000 BCE) -- The first urban society and the use of writing (ca. 4000-3200 BCE) -- City-states and the way toward the central state (ca. 3200-2350 BCE) -- The first central states (Ca. 2350-1595 BCE) -- Babylonia as part of the near eastern community of states (1595-1200 BCE) -- The empires of the Assyrians and the Babylonians (1200-539 BCE) -- The Achaemenid Empire (539-331 BCE) -- Alexander and the Seleucids in Babylonia (331-141 BCE) -- The empires of the Parthians and the Sasanians (141 BCE to 642 CE) -- The Islamic Conquest (622-1258) -- Iraq as part of the Ottoman Empire (1258-1918) -- Iraq under the monarchy (1921-195 8) -- The Republic of Iraq (1958-2008).
- Call Number
- JFD 09-3191
- ISBN
- 9780226586632 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780226586649 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0226586634 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226586642 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008051323
- 40017092773
- OCLC
- 276995879
- Author
- Nissen, Hans Jörg.
- Title
- From Mesopotamia to Iraq : a concise history / Hans J. Nissen and Peter Heine ; translated by Hans J. Nissen.
- Imprint
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language
- Translated from the German.
- Added Author
- Heine, Peter.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40017092773
- Research Call Number
- JFD 09-3191