Acknowledgements

Preface

Part 1: Assyriology in the Beginning

1. Discovery and Decipherment

2. Languages and Texts

3. Publications and Periodicals

Part 2: Creating a Formal Academic Discipline, 1870–1940

4. Professional Specialization (Austria / France / Switzerland / Belgium / Great Britain / Ireland / The United States / Canada / Centers Elsewhere, 1870-1940)

5. Building a Modern Corpus of Cuneiform Texts

6. Reference and Teaching Works

7. Scientific Excavations and Assyriology

8. Rediscovering Sumerian Literature

Part 3: Agendas in Assyriology, 1850–1970

9. Mesopotamian Political, Social, and Economic History

10. Mesopotamian Religion

11. Cuneiform Culture

Part 4: Assyriology in its Historical Setting to 1970

12. From Colonialism to the First World War and Its Aftermath

13. Tempest-Tost: Assyriologists and the Second World War

14. The Antiquities Trade

15. The Development of National Schools (Russia / The Netherlands / Italy / Czechoslovakia / Slovenia / Hungary / Poland / Denmark / Finland / Norway / Sweden / Spain / Israel /Palestine: The West Bank / Iraq / South Africa / Japan / Korea / China / Other Lands)

Part 5: Assyriologists at Work, 1945–1970

16. Post-War Generations (The United States / Canada / Great Britain / France and Belgium / Germany / Austria)

17. Women in Assyriology

Part 6: Conclusion: Changes and Challenges  in Assyriology, 1970 and Beyond    

Appendix I: Babylonian Bindings and Cuneiform Covers (Karen Polinger Foster)

Appendix II: Biographies of Assyriologists

Bibliography

Abbreviations

Index