古代近东史

Routledge 的《古代世界史》系列作品，分两卷。

以跨区域的“近东整体史”为目标，把两河流域、埃及、安纳托利亚、叙利亚—黎凡特、埃兰与波斯等区域放在同一叙事框架中，按时代段落梳理政治格局、国家形态、帝国结构与国际关系，并持续提示史料类型与证据限制

关于可读性

结构清楚、章节切分细、系统化，但信息密度高、专名多。

可读性良好，建议按章节分段读，并配合目录定位专题

目录结构

前置部分

• List of illustrations — xiv
• List of maps — xvi
• List of tables — xvii
• Abbreviations — xix
• Preface — xxvii

导论

• The region — 4
• Languages and writing — 6
• The environment — 7
• Understanding Near Eastern history — 10
• Problems of evidence — 11
• The chronological framework — 12
• The Neolithic background — 14

第一卷（约前3000—前1050年）

• Part I: The Development of States and Cities
• Part II: The Age of Internationalism

第一章 两河流域：第三千纪

• 1a Background (c. 6000–2900) — 19
  • The environment — 19
  • Developments in settled life — 21
  • The Late Uruk period — 23
• 1b The Cities (c. 2900–2340) — 27
  • The sources and their use — 27
  • Political and social organisation — 31
  • Kings and city-states — 33
  • The assembly — 34
  • War — 36
  • Society — 39
  • Inter-city relations — 40
• 1c The Empire of Agade — 44
  • An introduction to sources and chronology — 44
  • The rise and fall of Agade — 48
  • The king and the state — 53
• 1d The Third Dynasty of Ur (2112–2004) — 56
  • The period from the end of Agade to the rise of Ur — 56
  • The development of the Ur III state — 58
  • Reconstructing the Ur III state — 60
  • State ideology and kingship — 63
  • The end of Ur III — 70
• Notes — 72

第二章 两河流域（约前2000—前1600）：古巴比伦与古亚述时期

• Introduction — 74
• 2a Southern Mesopotamia (c. 2000–1800) — 76
• 2b The city of Ashur in the Old Assyrian period (c. 2000–1800) — 81
  • Place and name — 81
  • Sources — 84
  • Entry onto the international stage — 87
  • The city-state — 88
• 2c Old Assyrian merchants in Anatolia (c. 1900–1830) — 90
  • Introduction — 90
  • Organisation of the trade — 92
• 2d Mari and its world (c. 1810–1760) — 95
  • Introduction — 95
  • The political framework — 98
  • The kingdom of Mari — 102
• 2e Hammurabi and the First Dynasty of Babylon (1894–1595) — 108
  • The rise of Babylon — 108
  • King, state and subjects — 109
  • The decline of Babylon — 115
• Notes — 116

第三章 埃及：第一王朝至第十七王朝（约前3100/3000—1552）

• State and environment — 118
• Dynastic history: sources and problems — 123
• 3a The emergence of the Egyptian state — 125
  • Traditions of unification — 125
  • Evidence — 127
  • Predynastic cultures — 130
  • Rethinking unification — 132
  • Early dynastic Egypt — 134
• 3b The Old Kingdom (Third to Sixth Dynasties, c. 2686–2181) — 135
  • Contemporary evidence — 137
  • Beyond the Nile valley — 144
  • Literary and literary sources — 145
  • State and society — 147
• 3c The rise of Heracleopolis and Thebes (c. 2180–1991) — 154
• 3d The Middle Kingdom (c. 2040–1720 [and 2023–1720]) — 161
• 3e The Second Intermediate Period and Hyksos rule (c. 1720–1550) — 173
• Notes — 182

第四章 帝国埃及：新王国（1552/1550–1069）

• 4a Chronology and sources — 185
• 4b From Ahmose to Tuthmosis IV (Eighteenth Dynasty, 1550–1403 [1390]) — 188
• 4c The Amarna period (later Eighteenth Dynasty, 1403–1306 [1390–1295]) — 194
• 4d The later New Kingdom (Nineteenth and Twentieth Dynasties, 1306 [1295]–1069) — 204
  • War and peace — 205
  • Decline — 209
• 4e The New Kingdom state — 211
  • Kingship — 211
  • The queen — 216
  • The army — 217
  • Central administration and economy — 219
  • State temple and popular piety — 221
  • The collapse of the New Kingdom: problems of evidence — 223
• Notes — 224

第五章 赫梯

• 5a From the Old Assyrian period to the emergence of the Hittite kingdom (c. 1800–1650) — 225
• 5b Problems of chronology, sources and geography — 229
• 5c The Old Kingdom (c. 1650–1500) — 238
• 5d The empire (c. 1430/1420–1200) — 250
• 5e The Hittite state — 266
• Notes — 281

第六章 叙利亚与黎凡特

• 6a Mitanni and the Hurrians — 283
• 6b The kingdom of Ugarit — 301
• 6c Emar — 314
• 6d The Egyptian empire in Syria-Palestine — 317
• A note on the Egyptian empire in Nubia — 329
• Notes — 330

第七章 两河流域（约前1600—前900）

• 7a Kassite Babylonia (1595–1155) — 332
• 7b The Middle Assyrian period (c. 1400–1050) — 348
• 7c Elam: the classical period (c. 1450–1100) — 365
• 7d Babylonia: the end of the Kassites and the following dynasties (1158–c. 905) — 374
• Notes — 380

第二卷（约前1200—前330年）

• Part III: Political Transformations and the Rise of Empires

第八章 黎凡特（约前1200—前720）

• The ‘Sea Peoples’ — 386
• The Aramaeans — 393
• Phoenicia — 402
• The neo-Hittite states — 410
• The formation of the state of Israel (c. 1200–900) — 417
• The relationship with the Assyrian empire in the ninth and eighth centuries — 458
• Notes — 472

第九章 新亚述帝国（934–610）

• 9a The Assyrian chronicles and sources — 473
• 9b From a territorial state to an empire (934–745) — 478
• 9c Expansion and consolidation (744–c. 630) — 493
• 9d The empire’s structure — 501
• 9e The fall of Assyria — 540
• Notes — 546

第十章 安纳托利亚（约前900—前550）

• Urartu — 548
• Phrygia and Lydia — 562
• Notes — 572

第十一章 巴比伦尼亚（约前900—539）

• Introduction and sources — 573
• The Neo-Babylonian dynasty and empire — 589
• The late city — 610
• Notes — 621

第十二章 埃及（约前1000—525）

• The Third Intermediate Period (Dynasties 21–25) — 623
• The Saite period (Dynasty 26, 664–525) — 636
• Notes — 646

第十三章 阿契美尼德帝国（约前550—前330）

• Sources — 647
• The formation of the empire — 656
• Historical problems — 667
• The structure of the empire — 676
• Notes — 701

书末

Index — 763

Bibliography — 703