Cities and the shaping of memory in the ancient Near East / Omur Harmansah.
"This book investigates the founding and building of cities in the ancient Near East. The creation of new cities was imagined as an ideological project or a divine intervention in the political narratives and mythologies of Near Eastern cultures, often masking the complex processes behind the s...
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xix, 351 p. :; ill., map. |
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Landscapes of change: cities, politics, and memory; 3. The land of Assur: the making of Assyrian landscapes; 4. City and the festival: monuments, urban space, and spatial narratives; 5. Upright stones: architectural technologies and the poetics of urban space; 6. Cities, place, and desire.