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    Imagining Babylon : the modern story of an ancient city (2016)
    Berlin ; Boston :De Gruyter,
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    Format: xviii, 488 Seiten : , Illustrationen.
    ISBN: 978-1-61451-602-6
    Series Statement: Studies in ancient Near Eastern records Volume 11
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, PDF ISBN 978-1-61451-458-9
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    Language: English
    Author information: Liverani, Mario, 1939-,
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    Imagining Babylon : the modern story of an ancient city (2016)
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    Format: 1 online resource (506 pages) : , illustrations.
    ISBN: 9781614514589 (e-book)
    Series Statement: Studies in ancient Near Eastern records, volume 11
    Uniform Title: Immaginare Babele.
    Content: "Ever since the archaeological rediscovery of the ancient Near East, generations of scholars have attempted to reconstruct the 'real Babylon,' known to us before from the evocative biblical account of the Tower of Babel. After two centuries of excavations and scholarship, Mario Liverani provides an insightful overview of modern, Western approaches, theories, and accounts of the ancient Near Eastern city"--Provided by publisher.
    Additional Edition: Print version: Liverani, Mario. Imagining Babylon : the modern story of an ancient city. Boston : De Gruyter, [2016] ISSN 2161-4415 ; ISBN 9781614516026
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    Imagining Babylon : The Modern Story of the Ancient City (2016)
    Boston : De Gruyter, Inc
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    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (506 pages)
    ISBN: 9781614514589
    Series Statement: Studies in Ancient near Eastern Records (SANER) Ser v.11
    Content: Intro -- Preface to the Italian Edition -- Contents -- List of figures -- Abbreviations -- Journals -- Series -- 1 Rediscovery and perplexity -- 1.1 The ruins and the biblical curse -- 1.2 Imagining unknown cities -- 1.3 The rediscovery of the Assyrian capitals -- 1.4 The techniques of excavation and the problems of visibility -- 1.5 Ancient cities and eastern cities -- the material, and the values -- 1.6 Ideology and town planning: a city and not a city -- 1.7 From the Assyrians to the Sumerians -- 1.8 Stripping the tell -- 2 Acceptance and modification -- 2.1 The 'discovery of bricks' and the architectural revolution -- 2.2 From Liberty to Bauhaus: the city takes form -- 2.3 The ancient descriptions -- 2.4 Imagining Jerusalem -- 2.5 Above the flood plain: Anatolia and Iran -- 2.6 The Near-Eastern village and its eclipse -- 2.7 Evolutionism and economic history -- 2.8 Max Weber: the separate ways -- 2.9 Anna Schneider and the Sumerian temple-city -- 2.10 New procedures: the inventory of the country -- 2.11 New procedures: excavation by squares -- 2.12 The 'colonial' excavations: palaces and urban neighbourhoods -- 2.13 Henri Frankfort, from Egypt to the Diyala -- 3 The season of theoretical models -- 3.1 Gordon Childe: the urban revolution and evolutionary heritage -- 3.2 Thorkild Jacobsen and 'primitive democracy' -- 3.3 Igor Diakonoff, the 'Asiatic mode' and the residual village -- 3.4 Karl Wittfogel and the 'hydraulic' city -- 3.5 Karl Polanyi and the redistributive city -- 3.6 The Chicago school: 'City Invincible' and the young Adams -- 3.7 The wider scenes: Mumford, Sjoberg, Jacobs -- 3.8 Neo-evolutionism: city and archaic state -- 3.9 After Babylon: Greek urbanization and the Islamic city -- 4 The new models in practice -- 4.1 Robert Braidwood, the Jarmo project and the arrival of the palaeo-sciences
    Content: 4.2 Robert Adams and the Diyala Basin Project: territorial and demographic analyses -- 4.3 Leo Oppenheim and the Sippar project: 'great organizations' and communities of citizens -- 4.4 Primary and secondary urbanization -- 4.5 The cycles of urbanization -- 4.6 The contest for the first city -- 4.7 New frontiers: from the Nile to the Indus to Central Asia -- 4.8 The shape of the city and the new foundations -- 5 Modernity: new approaches and new settings -- 5.1 The 'zero stratum' of the tell and the ethno-archaeological model -- 5.2 The neo-geographic models and the settlement hierarchies -- 5.3 Site catchment analysis and the urban-rural continuum -- 5.4 The village and the communal bodies -- 5.5 The revival of architecture: the French school -- 5.6 The revival of architecture: the German school -- 5.7 The crisis of the palace -- 5.8 The crisis of the temple -- 5.9 City-state and state-city -- 5.10 The neo-liberalist model: market and entrepreneurs -- 5.11 The 'world-system' and the expansion of Uruk -- 5.12 North and South, centre and periphery -- 5.13 The theory of systems and the question of collapse -- 5.14 The climatic factor and the early environment -- 5.15 The demographic factor -- 6 Post-modernity: computerization and deconstruction -- 6.1 Tourist enjoyment and totalizing restoration -- 6.2 Political instability and growing costs: the virtual excavation -- 6.3 Simulations and computer graphics -- 6.4 Globalization: Eastern and Western -- 6.5 Generalized complexity and continuism -- 6.6 Anti-state localism: the oikos revisited -- 6.7 Non-places and non-cities: the structure denied -- 6.8 Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781614516026
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Liverani, Mario Imagining Babylon : The Modern Story of the Ancient City Boston : De Gruyter, Inc.,c2016 ISBN 9781614516026
    Language: English
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    Author information: Liverani, Mario 1939-
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    Imagining Babylon : The Modern Story of an Ancient City (2016)
    Berlin ;Boston :De Gruyter,
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    Format: 1 online resource (506p.)
    ISBN: 9781614514589
    Series Statement: Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER) ; 11
    Content: Stereotypes of the oriental city before and after their rediscovery. Oriental versus Western city. The improvements in digging techniques and in graphic visualization. From evolutionism to neo-evolutionism. From colonialism to decolonization. Neo-marxist and neo-capitalist theories. City, village, and countryside. Temple-cities, palatine cities, and the communal sector. The totalitarian models and their crisis. The advent of new geography and new archaeology, the reconstruction of paleo-environment. The advent of system theory, and the explanation for collapse. Post-modernist de-structuration of the ancient oriental city. The end of a cycle: political instability in the Near East, declining resources in the West, recourse to computer graphics and remote sensing, in order to get a "virtual" reconstruction of ancient cities.
    Note: Frontmatter -- , Preface To The Italian Edition -- , Contents -- , List of Figures -- , Abbreviations -- , 1. Rediscovery and perplexity -- , 2. Acceptance and modification -- , 3. The season of theoretical models -- , 4. The new models in practice -- , 5. Modernity: new approaches and new settings -- , 6. Post-modernity: computerization and deconstruction -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.
    Additional Edition: ISBN 978-1-61451-602-6
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1515/9781614514589
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614514589
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    Imagining Babylon : The Modern Story of an Ancient City (2016)
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    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 488 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9781614519584 , 9781614514589
    Series Statement: Studies in ancient Near Eastern records volume 11
    Content: Stereotypes of the oriental city before and after their rediscovery. Oriental versus Western city. The improvements in digging techniques and in graphic visualization. From evolutionism to neo-evolutionism. From colonialism to decolonization. Neo-marxist and neo-capitalist theories. City, village, and countryside. Temple-cities, palatine cities, and the communal sector. The totalitarian models and their crisis. The advent of new geography and new archaeology, the reconstruction of paleo-environment. The advent of system theory, and the explanation for collapse. Post-modernist de-structuration of the ancient oriental city. The end of a cycle: political instability in the Near East, declining resources in the West, recourse to computer graphics and remote sensing, in order to get a "virtual" reconstruction of ancient cities.
    Note: Frontmatter -- -- Preface To The Italian Edition -- -- Contents -- -- List of Figures -- -- Abbreviations -- -- 1. Rediscovery and perplexity -- -- 2. Acceptance and modification -- -- 3. The season of theoretical models -- -- 4. The new models in practice -- -- 5. Modernity: new approaches and new settings -- -- 6. Post-modernity: computerization and deconstruction -- -- Bibliography -- -- Index , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781614516026
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als ISBN 978-1-61451-602-6
    Language: English
    Keywords: Babylon ; Ausgrabung
    DOI: 10.1515/9781614514589
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