2014, ISBN: 0199646678

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[EAN: 9780199646678], Neubuch, [PU: Oxford University Press, Oxford], SYRIA ILLUSTRATE THREE MILLENNIAN HISTORY HITTITE ASSYRIAN AMORITE, Jacket, This copy is in new, unmarked condition b… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780199646678], Neubuch, [PU: Oxford University Press, Oxford], SYRIA ILLUSTRATE THREE MILLENNIAN HISTORY HITTITE ASSYRIAN AMORITE, Jacket, This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Syria has long been one of the most trouble-prone and politically volatile regions of the Near and Middle Eastern world. This book looks back beyond the troubles of the present to tell the 3000-year story of what happened many centuries before. Trevor Bryce reveals the peoples, cities, and kingdoms that arose, flourished, declined, and disappeared in the lands that now constitute Syria, from the time of it's earliest written records in the third millennium BC until the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian at the turn of the 3-4th century AD. Across the centuries, from the Bronze Age to the Rome Era, we encounter a vast array of characters and civilizations, enlivening, enriching, and besmirching the annals of Syrian history: Hittite and Assyrian Great Kings; Egyptian pharaohs; Amorite robber-barons; the biblically notorious Nebuchadnezzar; Persia's Cyrus the Great and Macedon's Alexander the Great; the rulers of the Seleucid empire; and an assortment of Rome's most distinguished and most infamous emperors. All swept across the plains of Syria at some point in her long history. All contributed, in one way or another, to Syria's special, distinctive character, as they imposed themselves upon it, fought one another within it, or pillaged their way through it. But this is not just a history of invasion and oppression. Syria had great rulers of her own, native-born Syrian luminaries, sometimes appearing as local champions who sought to liberate their lands from foreign despots, sometimes as cunning, self-seeking manipulators of squabbles between their overlords. They culminate with Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, whose life provides a fitting grand finale to the first three millennia of Syria's recorded history. The conclusion looks forward to the Muslim conquest in the 7th century AD: in many ways the opening chapter in the equally complex and often troubled history of modern Syria. Ref YYY 5, Books<

2014, ISBN: 0199646678

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[EAN: 9780199646678], Neubuch, [PU: Oxford University Press], Jacket, Dark blue gilt lettered hardback: firm and square, strong joints, sharp corners, no bumps. Complete with original dus… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780199646678], Neubuch, [PU: Oxford University Press], Jacket, Dark blue gilt lettered hardback: firm and square, strong joints, sharp corners, no bumps. Complete with original dustjacket: showing well, no tears, no chips. Contents crisp, tight and clean; no pen-marks and not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Looks and feels unread. Size: 240mm x 160mm. Thus a new copy offered for sale at a reasonable price., Books<

ISBN: 9780199646678

ISBN-13: 9780199646678, 978-0199646678. Syria has long been one of the most trouble-prone and politically volatile regions of the Near and Middle Eastern world. But this is not just a his… Mehr…

ISBN-13: 9780199646678, 978-0199646678. Syria has long been one of the most trouble-prone and politically volatile regions of the Near and Middle Eastern world. But this is not just a history of invasion and oppression. Ancient SyriaA Three Thousand Year History, Oxford University Press<

2014, ISBN: 9780199646678

A Three Thousand Year History, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: Oxford University Press], Oxford University Press, 2014