contents
MapsandFigures ix
Acknowledgements xii
INTRODUCTION 1
Chapter 1:RediscoveringaLostWorld 7
Chapter 2:HowDoTheHittitesTellUsAboutThemselves? 16
Chapter 3:TheDawnoftheHittiteEra 22
Chapter 4:TheLegacyofanAilingKing 34
Chapter 5:‘NowBloodshedHasBecomeCommon’ 41
Chapter 6:TheSettingforanEmpire 46
Chapter 7:BuildinganEmpire 57
Chapter 8:LionorPussycat? 66
Chapter 9:FromNearExtinctiontotheThresholdof
InternationalSupremacy 73
Chapter10:TheGreatestKingdomofThemAll 81
Chapter11:IntermediariesoftheGods:TheGreatKings
ofHatti 92
Chapter12:KingbyDefault 107
Chapter13:Health,HygieneandHealing 118
Chapter14:JusticeandtheCommoner 127