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Tables of Contents for Cuneiform Texts and the Writing of History
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of illustrations
vii
2
Acknowledgments
ix
INTRODUCTION
1
8
1 THE FIRST HALF OF HISTORY
9
30
Administrative documents
13
4
Private legal documents
17
5
Letters
22
3
Historiographic texts
25
2
Literary texts
27
5
Scholarly texts
32
7
2 HISTORY FROM ABOVE
39
47
Assyrian royal inscriptions
40
19
Sargon of Agade
59
17
Mesopotamian history and narrative
76
10
3 HISTORY FROM BELOW
86
20
Prosopography
89
3
Innaja, an old Assyrian merchant
92
6
The effects of war
98
8
4 ECONOMIC HISTORY
106
32
Theories of ancient economics
108
15
The primitivism-modernism debate
109
2
Marxist interpretations
111
4
Max Weber
115
5
Modernist approaches
120
3
Agriculture in Ur III Lagash
123
15
5 GENDER AND MESOPOTAMIAN HISTORY
138
23
6 CONCLUSIONS
161
6
Notes
167
4
Annotated bibliography
171
5
Bibliography
176
18
Index
194