Regime Change in the Ancient Near East and Egypt From Sargon of Agade to Saddam Hussein

by Crawford, Harriet

• ISBN13: 9780197263907
• ISBN10: 0197263909
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-06-21
• Publisher: British Academy

Summary

The manner in which government practices and personnel survive the violent disruption of regime change is an issue of current relevance, yet is a subject which has largely been ignored by modern scholarship. These essays, covering more than four thousand years of history, discuss thecontinuity of administration and royal iconography in successful changes of regime in Egypt, Mesopotamia and Iran.Recurring patterns are identified in ten case studies, ranging from late third millennium Mesopotamia to early Islamic Egypt. A summary of the recent history of Iraq suggests that these regularities have lessons for the modern geopolitics of today.

Table of Contents

Harriet Crawford

Steady States

Introduction and acknowledgements

Mesopotamia and Iran

Richard Zettler

Dynastic change and institutional administration in Southern Mesopotamia in the latter 3rd millennium BCE

Evidence from seals and sealing practices

Kathryn E. Slanski

The Mesopotamian 'Rod and Ring'

Icon of Righteous Kingship and Balance of Power between Palace and Temple

Tonia Sharlach

Social Change and the Transition from the Third Dynasty of Ur to the Old Babylonian Kingdoms c.2112-1595 BCE

Michael Jursa

The Transition of Babylonia from the Neo-Babylonian Empire to Achaemenid Rule

Erica Ehrenberg

Persian conquerors, Babylonian captivators

Sheila Canby

The Royal Hunt in Islamic Art

a symbol of power or the power of a symbol?

Egypt

Stephen Quirke

The Hyksos in Egypt 1600 BCE: New Rulers without an Administration

Robert Morkot

Tradition, innovation and researching the past in Libyan, Kushite, and Saite Egypt

Alan Bowman

Egypt and the Graeco-Roman world: from Ptolemaic Kingdom to Roman Province

Petra Sijpesteijn

New Rule over Old Structures: Egypt after the Muslim ConquestAfterword

Peter Sluglett

Regime Change in Iraq from the Mongols to the Present

An Essay in haute vulgarization

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