Search results for ""Author Guillermo Algaze""
Edicions Bellaterra La antigua Mesopotamia en los albores de la civilización la evolución de un paisaje urbano
En los últimos años, los estudios sobre los orígenes y formación de la civilización sumeria en la segunda mitad del IV milenio a.C. se han centrado en particular en la expansión exterior del llamado período de Uruk, que habría precedido directamente a la formación del estado sumerio en las tierras de aluvión de la Baja Mesopotamia. La identificación de numerosas colonias de Uruk en el norte de Mesopotamia había llevado a los estudiosos a analizar este período clave (3900-3200 a.C.) desde la óptica de la periferia, basándose en los planteamientos de la teoría de los sistemas-mundo. El presente libro recupera el estudio de los procesos socioeconómicos y políticos dentro de la propia llanura aluvial, analizando los orígenes sumerios desde la óptica del centro, es decir, desde el núcleo central sumerio y las fuerzas que operaron en la Baja Mesopotamia en el marco de un comercio asimétrico con una vasta periferia, que le permitió acumular recursos, riqueza y poder gracias al sistema colonia
£16.14
The University of Chicago Press Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization: The Evolution of an Urban Landscape
The alluvial lowlands of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in southern Mesopotamia are widely known as the "cradle of civilization," owing to the scale of the processes of urbanization that took place in the area by the second half of the fourth millennium BCE. In Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization, Guillermo Algaze draws on the work of modern economic geographers to explore how the unique river-based ecology and geography of the Tigris-Euphrates alluvium affected the development of urban civilization in southern Mesopotamia. He argues that these natural conditions granted southern polities significant competitive advantages over their landlocked rivals elsewhere in Southwest Asia, most importantly the ability to easily transport commodities. In due course, this resulted in increased trade and economic activity and higher population densities in the south than were possible elsewhere. As southern polities grew in scale and complexity throughout the fourth millennium, revolutionary new forms of labor organization and record keeping were created, and it is these socially created innovations, Algaze argues, that ultimately account for why fully developed city-states emerged earlier in southern Mesopotamia than elsewhere in Southwest Asia or the world.
£31.49
The University of Chicago Press The Uruk World System: The Dynamics of Expansion of Early Mesopotamian Civilization, Second Edition
Most archaeologists and historians of the ancient Near East have focused on the internal transformations that led to the emergence of early cities and states. In The Uruk World System, Guillermo Algaze concentrates on the unprecedented and wide-ranging process of external expansion that coincided with the rapid initial crystallization of Mesopotamian civilization. In this extensive study, he contends that the rise of early Sumerian polities cannot be understood without also taking into account the developments in surrounding peripheral areas. This new edition includes a substantial new chapter that explores recent data and interpretations of the expansion of Uruk settlements across Syro-Mesopotamia.
£40.00
