Puritans in Babylon: The Ancient Near East and American Intellectual Life, 1880-1930

by Bruce Kuklick

Book Overview

From the 1880s through the 1920s a motley collection of American scholars, soldiers of fortune, institutional bureaucrats, and financiers created the academic fields that give us our knowledge of the ancient Near East. Bruce Kuklick's new book begins with the story of the initial adventure of these determined investigators--a twelve-year dig near the Biblical Babylon, at Nippur, conducted at intervals from 1888 through 1900 and bankrolled by the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691656568
• ISBN13: 9780691656564
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.0" x 10.0"