The Uruk World System, The University of Chicago Press, 1993, Near Fine hardcover w/DJ
The Uruk World System, The University of Chicago Press, 1993, Near Fine hardcover w/DJ
The Uruk World System, The University of Chicago Press, 1993, Near Fine hardcover w/DJ
The Uruk World System, The University of Chicago Press, 1993, Near Fine hardcover w/DJ
The Uruk World System, The University of Chicago Press, 1993, Near Fine hardcover w/DJ
The Uruk World System, The University of Chicago Press, 1993, Near Fine hardcover w/DJ
The Uruk World System, The University of Chicago Press, 1993, Near Fine hardcover w/DJ

The Uruk World System, The University of Chicago Press, 1993, Near Fine hardcover w/DJ

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Algaze, Guillermo. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1993.
English, Near Fine, HC, 8vo, 11 1/4" x 8 3/4", 162 pp. 
ISBN: 0226013812

Hardcover in red cloth. Black pen inscription to front pastedown. Very Good pictorial dust jacket 1/4" closed tear to head, light sunning, now in Mylar. 162 pp. Includes several maps that detail areas where traces of the Uruk culture have been found, black line illustrations of Uruk-made objects, and black-and-white images of archeological finds. Fully titled The Uruk World System: The Dynamics of Expansion of Early Mesopotamian Civilization. From inside the dust jacket: "In The Uruk World System, Guillermo Algaze concentrates instead on the unprecedented and wide-ranging process of external expansion that coincided with the rapid initial crystallization of Mesopotamian civilization...[He] reviews an extensive body of archaeological evidence for cross-cultural exchange between the nascent city-states in the Mesopotamian lowlands and communities in immediately surrounding areas."