Understanding Hegemonic Practices of the Early Assyrian Empire is
a thematic volume that addresses the issue of how the Middle Assyrian
State achieved and maintained its hold over conquered territories. The
central question is whether this state had particular hegemonic
practices that might explain its remarkable successes. Contributions
were written by established and up and coming archaeologists and
Assyriologists.
Particular themes addressed in this volume
include; first, the relation between the Middle Assyrian state and that
of the Mittani: to what degree the Assyria was a successor state and how
it transformed its Mittanian heritage; second, what the effects of the
Middle Assyrian Empire were on settlement patterns and landscapes in
occupied territories; third, what the strategies of the Middle Assyrian
Empire were in its westernmost peripheries; fourth, what the
agricultural policies of the Middle Assyrian state were; fifth, what the
administrative techniques of the Middle Assyrian state were and how they
differed from those of other states; and sixth, how we can best
understand the success of the (Middle) Assyrian Empire from a
comparative perspective.
Contributing authors: Peter
Akkermans; Anacleto D’Agostino; Rémi Berthon; Kim Duistermaat; Bleda
Düring; Federica Fantone; Stefan Jakob; Victor Klinkenberg; Rafał
Koliński; Hartmut Kühne; Tijm Lanjouw; Jaume Llop-Raduà; Simone Mühl;
Bradley Parker; J. Nicholas Postgate; Hervé Reculeau; Daisuke Shibata;
Aline Tenu; and Frans Wiggermann.
The volume has been
dedicated to Frans Wiggermann in honour of his important contributions
to the study of the Middle Assyrian period on the occasion of his 65th
birthday.