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Regime Change in the Ancient Near East and Egypt

From Sargon of Agade to Saddam Hussein

Harriet Crawford editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:12th Apr '07

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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 the continuity 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.

Well illustrated * Gary Beckman, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *

ISBN: 9780197263907

Dimensions: 253mm x 195mm x 21mm

Weight: 845g

220 pages