商品簡介
Liverani (history, U. of Rome) makes use of the work of V. Gordon Childe and Marxist theory to show how Uruk in southern Mesopotamia created a revolution in the fourth millennium BCE that has served as the basis of economy-based society ever since. Liverani takes an interdisciplinary approach to explain how the evolution of a simple farmland into a complex marketplace was far from accidental, and how commerce grew to the counting house and thence to politics and governance. The result is accessible but rigorous, and serves as a model for further studies. Distributed in the US by David Brown Book Co. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Mario Liverani teaches the History of the Ancient Near East at the University of Rome 'La Sapienz'.
