At the Origins of Politics: Formation and Growth of the State in Syro-Mesopotamia

by Giorgio Buccellati

This volume, now available in English, explores how Mesopotamia's urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality, leading to new forms of social interaction, and the development of the state, its laws and its religion to consolidate new managerial hierarchies in the region.

How is it that the phenomenon of the state, a society structured along lines of power that frame individuals in a new supra-organism, suddenly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 036725669X
• ISBN13: 9780367256692
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 344 Pages