Uruk - The First City - Mario Liverani
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Uruk - The First City - Mario Liverani
Mario Liverani [+]
University of Rome “La Sapienza”, (Emeritus)
Mario Liverani is Emeritus Professor of “History of the Ancient Near East” in the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. Member of the Italian National “Lincei” Academy, honorary member of the American Oriental Society. His most recent book is Immaginare Babele (2013); his general handbook Ancient Orient is now available in English translation.
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Chapter contents: 1. The Urban Revolution and the Legacy of the Nineteenth Century; 2. Theories in Conflict: ‘Modernists’ and ‘Primitivists’; 3. Neo-evolutionism and Continuity; 4. Complexity and Transition: 5. The ‘Archaic’ Texts from Uruk