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100	1		_aAltaweel, Mark _4auth
245	1	0	_aRevolutionizing a world _bFrom Small States to Universalism in the Pre-Islamic Near East
260			_bUCL Press _c2018
300			_a1 electronic resource (336 p.)
506	0		_aOpen Access _2star _fUnrestricted online access
520			_aThis book investigates the long-term continuity of large-scale states and empires, and its effect on the Near East’s social fabric, including the fundamental changes that occurred to major social institutions. Its geographical coverage spans, from east to west, modern-day Libya and Egypt to Central Asia, and from north to south, Anatolia to southern Arabia, incorporating modern-day Oman and Yemen. Its temporal coverage spans from the late eighth century BCE to the seventh century CE during the rise of Islam and collapse of the Sasanian Empire. The authors argue that the persistence of large states and empires starting in the eighth/seventh centuries BCE, which continued for many centuries, led to new socio-political structures and institutions emerging in the Near East. The primary processes that enabled this emergence were large-scale and long-distance movements, or population migrations. These patterns of social developments are analysed under different aspects: settlement patterns, urban structure, material culture, trade, governance, language spread and religion, all pointing at movement as the main catalyst for social change. This book’s argument is framed within a larger theoretical framework termed as ‘universalism’, a theory that explains many of the social transformations that happened to societies in the Near East, starting from the Neo-Assyrian period and continuing for centuries. Among other influences, the effects of these transformations are today manifested in modern languages, concepts of government, universal religions and monetized and globalized economies.
540			_aCreative Commons _fhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ _2cc
546			_aEnglish
650		0	_aИстория отдельных стран и народов _92152
653			_a Империя
653			_aАрхеология по периодам / регионам
700	1		_aSquitieri, Andrea _4auth
856	4	0	_awww.oapen.org _uhttps://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/63ac279e-414d-405b-aee4-65e2abb86820/644642.pdf _70 _zDownload
856	4	0	_awww.oapen.org _uhttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30630 _70 _zDescription
909			_c4 _dDarya Shvetsova
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