Constituent, confederate, and conquered space : the emergence of the Mittani state / edited by Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Nicole Brisch, Jesper Eidem

Additional Titles: Emergence of the Mittani state
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]
Copyright Date: ©2014
Physical Description: viii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Additional Creators: Cancik-Kirschbaum, Eva Christiane, Brisch, Nicole Maria, and Eidem, J. (Jesper)

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Series

Topoi ; v. 17.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: I.Imperial Constructs -- Modes of Governance -- Levantine Polities under Mittanian Hegemony / Eva von Dassow -- The Organisation of Residential Space in the Mittani Kingdom as a Mirror of Different Models of Governance / Adelheid Otto -- The Mittani State: The Formation of the Kingdom of Mittani / Stefano de Martino -- The Imperial Space -- The Early Hittite Kingdom / Jorg Klinger -- II.Political Landscapes -- Antecedents in Upper Mesopotamia -- Inherited Space -- Third Millennium Political and Cultural Landscape / Maria G. Biga -- Central Anatolia in the Nineteenth and Eighteenth Centuries BC / Cecile Michel -- The Kingdom of Samsi-Adad and its Legacies / Jesper Eidem -- Political Space - Local Political Structures in Northern Syria: The Case of the Country of Ida-Maras in the Eighteenth Century BC / Michael Guichard -- III.Cultural Landscapes -- Regional Diversity vs. Political Unity -- Marginal and Steppic Areas as Sources for Archaeological Debate: A case for "Active Symbiosis" of Town and Country / Diederik J. W. Meijer -- Settled Space. Evidence for Changes in Settlement Patterns of Northern Mesopotamia at the Advent and at the Turn of the Mittani Era / Rafal Kolinski -- The Settlement Pattern of the Western Upper Khabur from the Old Babylonian Period to the End of the Mittani Era / Xavier Faivre -- Spaces of Measures and Numbers in Upper Mesopotamia / Gregory Chambon -- IV.Reflections -- The Age of Opportunity: Social and Political Transitions in Mid-Second Millennium BC Mesopotamia / Norman Yoffee -- Reflections on the Mittani Emergence / Glenn M. Schwartz.

Subject(s)

Mitanni (Ancient kingdom)—History—Congresses

ISBN

9783110265927 (hd.bd. : alk. paper)
3110265923 (hd.bd. : alk. paper)

Note

Proceedings of a conference held summer of 2009.

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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