The ancient Near East : history, society and economy / Mario Liverani ; translated by Soraia Tabatabai.

The ancient Near East as a historical problem
The geography of the ancient Near East
The Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods
The urban revolution
The rise and fall of the first urbanisation
Mesopotamia in the early dynastic period
The rise of Ebla
The Akkadian empire
The third dynasty of Ur
The crisis of the second urbanisation
The "intermediate period" of Isin and Larsa
The old Assyrian period
The Mari age
Hammurabi of Babylon
Anatolia in the old Hittite period
The late Bronze Age : technologies and ideologies
The rise of Mitanni
The Hittite empire
Syria and the Levant in the late Bronze Age
The middle Assyrian kingdom
Kassite Babylonia
Crisis and reorganisation
Israel
The Phoenicians
The Arameans in Syria and Mesopotamia
The neo-Hittite states
Assyria, Babylonia, and Elam in the 12th to 9th century BC
The rise of the neo-Assyrian empire
The structure of the neo-Assyrian empire
The periphery of the neo-Assyrian empire
The fall of the empire and the rise of the Chaldeans
The Medes and the rise of the Persians.