Urbanization and Land Ownership in the Ancient Near East Hudson Levine Paperback

Urbanization and Land Ownership in the Ancient Near EastAuthor(s): Michael Hudson, Baruch A. Levine\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Washington Press, United States\nImprint: University of Washington Press\nISBN-13: 9780873659574, 978-0873659574\nSynopsis\nThe second volume in an ongoing series sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), \""Urbanization and Land Ownership in the Ancient Near East\"" examines the impact of debt, private land ownership, and urbanization on ancient societies. Evidence of privatization of land is supported by archaeological data, surviving documents, and financial records.\n\nThis volume contains three sets of papers ranging from the Ice Age through early Egypt and Bronze Age Sumer, Babylonia, and Israel, given by archaeologists, economists, Assyriologists, and Egyptologists.\n\nThe first set of papers deals with the social cosmology of early urban areas as ritual centers. The second set focuses on the physica.