{"product_id":"9780226144672","title":"Early Antiquity","description":"The internationally renowned Assyriologist and linguist I.\u003cbr\u003e M. Diakonoff has gathered the work of Soviet historians in\u003cbr\u003e this survey of the earliest history of the ancient Near East,\u003cbr\u003e Central Asia, India, and China. Diakonoff and his\u003cbr\u003e colleagues, nearly all working within the general Marxist\u003cbr\u003e historiographic tradition, offer a comprehensive, accessible\u003cbr\u003e synthesis of historical knowledge from the beginnings of\u003cbr\u003e agriculture through the advent of the Iron Age and the Greek\u003cbr\u003e colonization in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea areas.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Besides discussing features of Soviet historical\u003cbr\u003e scholarship of the ancient world, the essays treat the\u003cbr\u003e history of early Mesopotamia and the course of Pharaonic\u003cbr\u003e Egyptian civilization and developments in ancient India and\u003cbr\u003e China from the Bronze Age into the first millennium B.C.\u003cbr\u003e Additional chapters are concerned with the early history of\u003cbr\u003e Syria, Phoenicia, and Palestine, the Hittite civilization,\u003cbr\u003e the Creto-Mycenaean world, Homeric Greece, and the Phoenician\u003cbr\u003e and Greek colonization.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This volume offers a unified perspective on early\u003cbr\u003e antiquity, focusing on the economic and social relations of\u003cbr\u003e production. Of immense value to specialists, the book will\u003cbr\u003e also appeal to general readers.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e I. M. Diakonoff is a senior research scholar of ancient\u003cbr\u003e history at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Leningrad\u003cbr\u003e Academy of Sciences. Philip L. Kohl is professor of\u003cbr\u003e anthropology at Wellesley College.","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47111209976048,"sku":"9780226144672","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780226144672_p0.jpg?v=1763674534","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780226144672","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}