II Definitions, Evidence, and Prehistoric Chronology

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xiii
4. I Introduction 1
5. II Definitions, Evidence, and Prehistoric Chronology 6
6. III Background to the Emergence of the City 13
7. IV Mesopotamia Early Technological and Social Progress 24
8. V Mesopotamia The City Emerges in Sumer 33
9. VI Mesopotamia From City to Empire Akkad, Babylonia, Assyria, and Persia 49
10. VII The Indus Valley A Dead End 57
11. VIII Egypt Civilization of Palaces, Temples, and Tombs 65
12. IX Canaan Cities of Commerce 77
13. X Anatolia Abortive Cities 93
14. XI The Aegean Civilization Palaces or Cities ? 107
15. XII The Indo-Europeans Tribesmen Urbanized 134
16. XIII Summary of the City before the Greeks 148
17. XIV Archaic Greece The Emergence of the City-State 155
18. XV Classical Greece Age of the City-State 175
19. XVI Hellenistic Territorial States Restriction and Spread of the City-State 196
20. XVII Greek and Roman City Design and Urban Planning 221
21. XVIII The City in Early Italy and the Rise of Rome 237
22. XIX Republican Rome Success and Failure as a City-State 261
23. XX The Early Roman Empire An Oecumenē of Free Cities under One Rule 279
24. XXI The Late Roman Empire Withering of the City-State 303
25. XXII The City in the Early Mediaeval West and in the Byzantine East 330
26. XXIII Recapitulation 346
27. CHRONOLOGICAL SURVEY 362
28. Chapter Bibliographies 388
29. Index to Bibliographies 550
30. Series List 581
31. Table of Coordination for Revised Cambridge Ancient History I. 591
32. Index of Places on the Maps 595
33. General Index 603