Perspectives on the History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies / edited by Agnès Garcia-Ventura and Lorenzo Verderame.
| Other author | Garcia-Ventura, Agnès. |
| Other author | Verderame, L. (Lorenzo) |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | University Park, Pennsylvania : Eisenbrauns, [2020] |
| Description | x, 340 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Hittite studies at the crossroads : Albrecht Goetze's and Hans Gustav Güterbock's flight from Nazi Germany / Silvia Alaura -- Language and race in Assyriology : from Benno Landsberger to Wolfram von Soden / Sebastian Fink -- Assyriology in Nazi Germany : the case of Wolfram von Soden / Jacob Flygare -- Carthage the deceitful and perfidius Albion : the Phoenicians and the British in Fascist Italy / Pietro Giammellaro -- The sharing out of antiquities in Syria during the interwar period : Sir Leonard Woolley's excavation at Tell Sheikh Yusuf (Al-Mina) / Patrick Maxime Michel -- "Die Assyriologie nicht weiter unberücksichtigt bleiben dürfte" : on the (non-)existence of Assyriology at the German University in Prague (1908-1945) / Luděk Vacín and Jitka Sýkorová -- Notes on the history of the historiography of cuneiform mathematics / Carlos Gonçalves -- Feudalism and vassalage in twentieth-century Assyriology / Emanuel Pfoh -- Nation building in the plain of Antioch : from Hatti to Hatay / Eva von Dassow -- The historiography of Assyriology in Turkey : a short survey / Selim Ferruh Adali and Hakan Erol -- Ancient Near Eastern studies and Portuguese academia : a love affair under construction / Isabel Almeida -- Near Eastern archaeology and the Czech-speaking lands / Petr Charvát -- Tintin in Mesopotamia : the story of Belgian Assyriology (1890-2017) / Katrien De Graef -- Assyriology in Iran? / Parsa Daneshmand -- Assyriology in China / Changyu Liu -- Looking for a Tell : the beginnings of ancient Near Eastern archaeology at the University of Barcelona / Jordi Vidal -- Big data, big deal : use of Google books ngram viewer and JSTOR Data for research for charting the rise of Assyriology / Steven W. Holloway -- The future of the past : how the past contributes to the construction of Syrian national identity / Ahmed Fatima Kzzo. |
| Abstract | "A collection of essays that encompass the two principal approaches to the history of ancient Near Eastern studies: descriptive historiography and intellectual history"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020011867 |
| ISBN | 9781575068367 (hardback) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |