Regime Change in the Ancient Near East and Egypt: From Sargon of Agade to Saddam Hussein
Harriet Crawford
Abstract
The manner in which government practices and personnel survive the violent disruption of regime change is an issue of current relevance, yet it is a subject that has largely been ignored by modern scholarship. These chapters, covering more than 4,000 years of history, discuss the continuity of administration and royal iconography in successful changes of regime in Egypt, Mesopotamia and Iran. Recurring patterns are identified in ten case studies, ranging from late third millennium Mesopotamia to early Islamic Egypt. A summary of the recent history of Iraq suggests that these regularities have ... More
The manner in which government practices and personnel survive the violent disruption of regime change is an issue of current relevance, yet it is a subject that has largely been ignored by modern scholarship. These chapters, covering more than 4,000 years of history, discuss the continuity of administration and royal iconography in successful changes of regime in Egypt, Mesopotamia and Iran. Recurring patterns are identified in ten case studies, ranging from late third millennium Mesopotamia to early Islamic Egypt. A summary of the recent history of Iraq suggests that these regularities have lessons for modern geopolitics.
Keywords:
regime change,
administration continuity,
royal iconography,
Egypt,
Mesopotamia,
Iran,
case studies,
early Islamic Egypt,
Iraq,
modern geopolitics
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2007 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780197263907 |
| Published to British Academy Scholarship Online: January 2012 |
DOI:10.5871/bacad/9780197263907.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Harriet Crawford, editor
Honorary Visiting Professor, Institute of Archaeology, University College London; Research Fellow McDonald Institute, Cambridge
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