Mesopotamian Civilization: Environmental Change and Social Justice

by D.T. Potts

The best way to achieve an understanding of the art, architecture, history, and literature of a great civilization such as Mesopotamia's, D. T. Potts believes, is through an analysis of its material infrastructure. Concentrating on Southern Mesopotamia and relying preponderantly on evidence from the third millennium B.C., Potts describes a civilization from the ground up. He creates an ethnography of ancient Mesopotamia which combines knowledge...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801433398
• ISBN13: 9780801433399
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher