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Ancient Egyptian Administration
The book provides an up-to-date overview of the structure, organization and evolution of the pharaonic administration from its origins to the middle of the first millennium BCE. General descriptions are supplemented by specific analysis of key archives, practices and institutions.
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Dynamics of Production in the Ancient Near East
The transition between the 2nd and the 1st millennium BC was an era of deep economic changes in the ancient Near East. An increasing monetization of transactions, a broader use of silver, the management of the resources of temples through “entrepreneurs\", the development of new trade circuits and an expanding private, small-scale economy, transformed the role previously played by institutions such as temples and royal palaces. The 17 essays collected here analyze the economic transformations which affected the old dominant powers of the Late Bronze Age, their adaptation to a new economic environment, the emergence of new economic actors and the impact of these changes on very different social sectors and geographic areas, from small communities in the oases of the Egyptian Western Desert to densely populated urban areas in Mesopotamia. Egypt was not an exception. Traditionally considered as a conservative and highly hierarchical and bureaucratic society, Egypt shared nevertheless many of these characteristics and tried to adapt its economic organization to the challenges of a new era. In the end, the emergence of imperial super-powers (Assyria, Babylonia, Persia and, to a lesser extent, Kushite and Saite Egypt) can be interpreted as the answer of former palatial organizations to the economic and geopolitical conditions of the early Iron Age. A new order where competition for the control of flows of wealth and of strategic trading areas appears crucial.
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The Trump Paradox
The Trump Paradox: Migration, Trade, and Racial Politics in
US-Mexico Integration explores one of the most complex and
unequal cross-border relations in the world, in light of both a
twenty-first-century political economy and the rise of Donald
Trump. Despite the trillion-plus dollar contribution of Latinos to
the US GDP, political leaders have paradoxically stirred racial
resentment around immigrants just as immigration from Mexico has
reached net zero. With a roster of state-of-the-art scholars from
both Mexico and the US, The Trump Paradox explores a
dilemma for a divided nation such as the US: in order for its
economy to continue flourishing, it needs immigrants and trade.
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