LEADER 05603nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910782319903321 005 20230617003140.0 010 $a1-281-92793-7 010 $a9786611927936 010 $a981-277-514-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000552293 035 $a(EBL)1214434 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000300515 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12131354 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000300515 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10252164 035 $a(PQKB)11259302 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1214434 035 $a(WSP)00000823 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1214434 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10698793 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL192793 035 $a(OCoLC)854972438 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000552293 100 $a20051130d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIraq beyond the headlines$b[electronic resource] $ehistory, archaeology, and war /$fBenjamin R. Foster, Karen Polinger Foster, Patty Gerstenblith 210 $aHackensack, NJ $cWorld Scientific$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (293 p.) 225 1 $aSeries on the Iraq War and Its Consequences ;$vv.2 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a981-256-379-2 311 $a981-256-476-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a1. The Amorites and Their Way of Life2. 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 327 $a2. The First Assyrian Empire3. 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 327 $a7. Rome in Mesopotamia8. 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 327 $a5. Divisions within Islam6. 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 327 $a6. Iraq in the Late Nineteenth Century 330 $aThis book is the first authoritative and up-to-date survey of the history of Iraq from earliest times to the present in any language. It presents a concise narrative of the rich and varied history of this land, drawing on political, social, economic, artistic, technological, and intellectual material. It also includes excerpts from works of ancient, medieval, and modern literature written in Iraq, some of which are translated for the first time into English.The final chapters provide an introduction to the history of archaeology in Iraq, set in the wider context of the development of archaeolo 410 0$aSeries on the Iraq War and Its Consequences 606 $aArchaeology and history$zIraq 607 $aIraq$xHistory 615 0$aArchaeology and history 676 $a956.704 700 $aFoster$b Benjamin R$g(Benjamin Read)$0982084 701 $aFoster$b Karen Polinger$f1950-$0531996 701 $aGerstenblith$b Patty$01564710 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782319903321 996 $aIraq beyond the headlines$93833908 997 $aUNINA