formation and growth of the state in Syro-Mesopotamia Buccellati, Giorgio creator author. text nyu 2025 monographic eng 1 online resource "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 came into being during the fourth millennium BC? In this book, Buccellati explores the emergence of statehood and power structures in ancient Mesopotamia against the background of the long prehistoric period. It was the arena in which the earliest cities and states were born and which offers us the first and richest documentation of the development of political life in antiquity. This book provides rich documentation of the causes that led to the formation of the territorial state, tracing its evolution from city-states to universal empires from c. 3500 BC to 500 BC. At the same time, it examines the tension between individual rights and supra-personal systems of power during this period and explores new forms of social interaction that coincided with the economic dimension of the urban revolution. This paradigmatic history, newly translated into English for Anglophone readers, offers a key to understanding modern political forms and their transformations. At the Origins of Politics provides a thorough examination of the development of the state in ancient Mesopotamia, suitable for students, scholars, and researchers working on Near Eastern history and society, and ancient societies and politics more broadly"-- The great transformations 50,000-3,500 B.C. -- The axle of power 3,500-2,300 B.C. -- The explosion of boundaries 2,300-2,100 B.C. -- The restructuring on a regional basis 2,100-1,600 B.C. -- The world as a city 1,600-1,100 B.C. -- The extreme limits of territoriality 1100-500 B.C. Giorgio Buccellati. Includes index. Iraq Politics and government Iraq Civilization To 634 HISTORY / Ancient / General DS71 9780429289002 0429289006 9781040133934 1040133932 9781040133880 1040133886 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429289002 http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429289002 http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf OCoLC-P 240626 20251030122225.0 9780429289002 eng