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List of illustrations | |
Acknowledgements | |
Introduction | p. 1 |
The First Half of History | p. 9 |
Administrative documents | p. 13 |
Private legal documents | p. 17 |
Letters | p. 22 |
Historiographic texts | p. 25 |
Literay texts | p. 27 |
Scholarly texts | p. 32 |
History from Above | p. 39 |
Assyrian royal inscriptions | p. 40 |
Sargon of Agade | p. 59 |
Mesopotamian history and narrative | p. 76 |
History from Below | p. 86 |
Prosopography | p. 89 |
Innaja, an old Assyrian merchant | p. 92 |
The effects of war | p. 98 |
Economic History | p. 106 |
Theories of ancient economics | p. 108 |
The primitivism-modernism debate | p. 109 |
Marxist interpretations | p. 111 |
Max Weber | p. 115 |
Modernist approaches | p. 120 |
Agriculture in Ur III Lagash | p. 123 |
Gender and Mesopotamian History | p. 138 |
Conclusions | p. 161 |
Notes | p. 167 |
Annotated bibliography | p. 171 |
Bibliography | p. 176 |
Index | p. 194 |
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