TY  - BOOK
AU  - Van de Mieroop, Marc
TI  - The Ancient Mesopotamian City
SN  - 9780198152866
U1  - 935 
PY  - 1999///
PB  - Oxford University Press on Demand
KW  - History
N1  - Urban history starts in Mesopotamia: the earliest known cities developed there as a result of long indigenous processes and, for millennia, the city determined every aspect of Mesopotamian civilization. Marc Van De Mieroop examines urban life in the historical period, investigating urban topography, the role of cities as centres of culture, their political and social structures, economy, literature, and the arts. He draws on material from the entirety of Mesopotamian history, from c. 3000to 300 BC, and from both Babylonia and Assyria, arguing that the Mesopotamian city can be regarded as a prototype that inspired the rest of the ancient world and shared characteristics with the European cities of antiquity
ER  -