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Cuneiform texts and the writing of history
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- Creator
- Marc Van de Mieroop
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- London ; New York : Routledge, 1999
- Physical Details
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- vi, 196 pages, 6 pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780415195324, 0415195322, 9780415195331, 0415195330
- OCLC
- ocm40180227
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [176]-193) and index.
- 1. The First Half of History. Administrative documents. Private legal documents. Letters. Historiographic texts. Literay texts. Scholarly texts -- 2. History from Above. Assyrian royal inscriptions. Sargon of Agade. Mesopotamian history and narrative -- 3. History from Below. Prosopography. Innaja, an old Assyrian merchant. The effects of war -- 4. Economic History. Theories of ancient economics. The primitivism-modernism debate. Marxist interpretations. Max Weber. Modernist approaches. Agriculture in Ur III Lagash -- 5. Gender and Mesopotamian History -- 6. Conclusions