This groundbreaking, five-volume series offers a comprehensive,
fully illustrated history of Egypt and Western Asia (the Levant,
Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Iran), from the emergence of complex
states to the conquest of Alexander the Great. Written by a
diverse, international team of leading scholars whose expertise
brings to life the people, places, and times of the remote past,
the volumes in this series focus firmly on the political and social
histories of the states and communities of the ancient Near East.
Individual chapters present the key textual and material sources
underpinning the historical reconstruction, paying particular
attention to the most recent archaeological finds and their impact
on our historical understanding of the periods surveyed. The third
volume examines the period from 1600 to 1100 BC or in
archaeological terms, the Late Bronze Age. Twelve chapters survey
the history of the Near East and discuss the Hyksos state of Lower
Egypt, Upper Egypt, and the Nubian kingdom of Kerma prior to the
unification that resulted in the creation of the New Kingdom, the
geo-political super power of the period. Contemporary imperial
powers-the Hittites in Central Anatolia and Mittani in Upper
Mesopotamia-are discussed, as are the appearance and growth of
Assyria, the kingdom of Kassite Babylonia, the Elamites of
southwestern Iran, and the Mycenaeans in the Aegean. Beyond the
narrative history of each region considered, the volume treats a
wide range of critical topics, including the absolute chronology;
state formation and disintegration; the role of kingship, cult
practice, and material culture in the creation and maintenance of
social hierarchies; and long-distance trade-both terrestrial and
maritime-as a vital factor in the creation of social, political,
and economic networks that bridged deserts, oceans, and mountain
ranges, binding together the extraordinarily diverse peoples and
polities of Sub-Saharan Africa, the Near East, and Central Asia.
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