At the Origins of Politics

At the Origins of Politics

Formation and Growth of the State in Syro-Mesopotamia

Buccellati, Giorgio

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10/2024

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Part I: The Great Transformations 50,000 - 3,500 B. C.; 1. The coming into being of society; 2. The invention of territory; 3. Control over nature; 4. The reification of the word; Part II: The Axle of Power 3,500 - 2,300 B. C.; 5. Threshold to history; 6. The nuclear territorial states; 7. The expanded territorial states; 8. Impulses beyond the territorial base; Part III: The Explosion of Boundaries 2,300 - 2,100 B. C.; 9. A quantum leap: the imperial experiment; 10. The invention of the rivers; 11. The invention of the steppe; 12. A premature experiment; Part IV: The Restructuring on a Regional Basis 2,100 - 1,600 B. C.; 13. "Mesopotamia" and its regions; 14. Hegemony and balances; 15. Political strategies; 16. Alternatives to the territorial state; Part V: The World as a City 1,600 - 1,100 B. C.; 17. International equilibrium; 18. The two Lands of the Four River Banks; 19. Local autonomies; 20. New modalities; Part VI: The Extreme Limits of Territoriality 1100-500 B. C.; 21. From a universe of cities to the universal city; 22. The restructuring of the parts; 23. Imperial Ideology; 24. The consolidation of the epigons; 25. The state as it unfolds; 26. Encounters.
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politics in Mesopotamia;ancient Near Eastern politics;ancient Mesopotamian politics;city-state;territorial state;Near Eastern politics;Near Eastern economics;Near Eastern economy;Near Eastern society;Urban Revolution;Akkad;Sumer;Babylon;Amorites;Bronze Age Near East