Table of Contents

1. The "thingness" of the state
2. Hegemony, polity, identity
3. Land and story
4. Beginnings I : the Late Bronze Age
5. Beginnings II : the Early Iron Age
6. Structures and metaphors
7. Mesha and the naming of names
8. Replicative kingship
9. Local space in a global state
10. Once again, the state

About the Author

Bruce Routledge is a Lecturer at the School of Archaeology, Classics, and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool.

Reviews

"From both a methodological and a theoretical point of view ... Routledge's work demonstrates the real potential of new and alternative approaches to Iron Age archaeology."--American Journal of Archeology