Innovative study of the early state and urban societies in Mesopotamia, c. 5000 to 2100 BC.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction; 2. Geographic setting and environment; 3. Settlement patterns; 4. Making a living: tributary economics of the fifth and fourth millennia; 5. A changing way of life: the oikos-based economy of the third millennium; 6. The growth of bureaucracy; 7. Ideology and images of power; 8. Death and the ideology of community.