State formation and state decline in the Near and Middle East
By: edited by Rainer Kessler, Walter Sommerfeld and Leslie Tramontini
Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Wiesbaden
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9783447105651
Subjects: Politics and government; Congresses; Nation-building; The State; Elite (Social sciences); Ethnicity
Notes: Proceedings of conference held in Marburg, March 24-27, 2010 .

Includes bibliographical references.

In English, with one contribution in German.
Table of contents: title: The Evolution of Fragility: The Resistible Rise and Irresistible Fall of Early States  -- Norman Yoffee; title: Umweltzerstörung und ökologische Krisen im Alten Orient  -- Walter Sommerfeld; title: Material Foundations of Early States  -- Daniel T. Potts; title: The Formation and Decline of the Aramaean States in Iron Age Syria  -- Helene Sader; title: Conditions of State Formation at the Edges of Empires: the Case of Iron Age Moab  -- Bruce Routledge; title: Ethnicity and State Formation in the Levant during the Early Iron Age  -- Christa Schäfer-Lichtenberger; title: The Role of Lingua Francas and Communication Networks in the Process of Empire-Building: The Persian Empire  -- Josef Wiesehöfer; title: Political Elites in Ancient Judah: Continuity and Change  -- Rainer Kessler; title: The first Arabic Empire and Modern Scholarship, 622–661  -- Wim Raven; title: Cooperation over Trans-Boundary Water Resources Management in the Middle East  -- Afaf H. Rahim and Precious Zikhali; title: Still in the Wilderness? Iraq in 2015 -- Peter Sluglett.