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Livres anciens et modernes

Diakonoff, I. M. & Alexander Kirjanov (Tr. )

EARLY ANTIQUITY Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

University of Chicago Press, 1991

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Année
1991
Auteur
Diakonoff, I. M. & Alexander Kirjanov (Tr. )
Éditeurs
University of Chicago Press
Thème
Anthropology Sociology Near East Near Eastern Studies, Assyriology Assyria China India Indology
Description
Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
Description
Hardcover ISBN 0226144658

Description

Light shelfwear to book. Very light foxing to top of textblock. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; 1.36 x 9.26 x 6.38 Inches; 486 pages; The internationally renowned Assyriologist and linguist I. M. Diakonoff has gathered the work of Soviet historians in this survey of the earliest history of the ancient Near East, Central Asia, India, and China. Diakonoff and his colleagues, nearly all working within the general Marxist historiographic tradition, offer a comprehensive, accessible synthesis of historical knowledge from the beginnings of agriculture through the advent of the Iron Age and the Greek colonization in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea areas. Besides discussing features of Soviet historical scholarship of the ancient world, the essays treat the history of early Mesopotamia and the course of Pharaonic Egyptian civilization and developments in ancient India and China from the Bronze Age into the first millennium B. C. Additional chapters are concerned with the early history of Syria, Phoenicia, and Palestine, the Hittite civilization, the Creto-Mycenaean world, Homeric Greece, and the Phoenician and Greek colonization. This volume offers a unified perspective on early antiquity, focusing on the economic and social relations of production. Of immense value to specialists, the book will also appeal to general readers. I. M. Diakonoff is a senior research scholar of ancient history at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Leningrad Academy of Sciences.