Foster, Benjamin R. <br/><br/>
The Age of Agade :  inventing empire in ancient Mesopotamia / 
Benjamin R. Foster. 
 - London ;  New York, NY :  Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group,  2016. 
 - xvii, 438 pages :  illustrations, maps ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-428) and index. 
<br/><br/>The rise and fall of the Akkadian Empire -- The land and people of Akkad -- Akkadian centers and settlements -- Works and days -- Industries and crafts -- Religion -- Statecraft and the military -- Trade, business, and the economy -- Arts, letters, and numeracy -- Akkadian human values -- The Akkadian period in retrospect -- The Akkadian period in modern historiography. 
<br/><br/> The Age of Agade is the first book-length study of the Akkadian period of Mesopotamian history, which saw the rise and fall of the world’s first empire during more than a century of extraordinary political, social, and cultural innovation. It draws together more than 40 years of research by one of the world’s leading experts in Assyriology to offer an exhaustive survey of the Akkadian empire. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781138909755 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Akkadians.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Iraq--History--To 634.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS72.3,  / F67 2016