From Mesopotamia to Iraq : a concise history /
Nissen, Hans Jörg.
Heine, Peter.
Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press,
2009.
Landscape, climate, population -- The beginnings of sedentary life (ca. 10,000-4000 BCE) -- The first urban society and the use of writing (ca. 4000-3200 BCE) -- City-states and the way toward the central state (ca. 3200-2350 BCE) -- The first central states (Ca. 2350-1595 BCE) -- Babylonia as part of the near eastern community of states (1595-1200 BCE) -- The empires of the Assyrians and the Babylonians (1200-539 BCE) -- The Achaemenid Empire (539-331 BCE) -- Alexander and the Seleucids in Babylonia (331-141 BCE) -- The empires of the Parthians and the Sasanians (141 BCE to 642 CE) -- The Islamic Conquest (622-1258) -- Iraq as part of the Ottoman Empire (1258-1918) -- Iraq under the monarchy (1921-195 8) -- The Republic of Iraq (1958-2008).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translated from the German.