TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kramer,Samuel Noah
TI  - History begins at Sumer
T2  - Doubleday anchor books
AV  - DS 72 K7.1959
PY  - 1959///
CY  - Garden City, N.Y.
PB  - Doubleday
KW  - Sumerians
KW  - Sumerios
N1  - Education: First schools -- Schooldays: First case of "Apple-polishing" -- Father and son: First case of juvenile delinquency -- International affairs: First "War of Nerves" -- Government: First bicameral congress -- Civil War in Sumer: First historian -- Social reform: First case of tax reduction -- Law codes: First "Moses" -- Justice: First legal precedent -- Medicine: First pharmacopoeia -- Agriculture: First" Farmer's almanac" -- Horticulture: First experiment in shade-tree gardening -- Philosophy: Man's first cosmogony and cosmology -- Ethics: First moral ideals -- Suffering and submission: First "Job" -- Wisdom: First proverbs and sayings -- "Aesopica": First animal fables -- Logomachy: First literary debates -- Paradise: First biblical parallels -- Flood: First "Noah" -- Hades: First tale of resurrection -- Slaying of the dragon: First "St. George" -- Tales of Gilgamesh: First case of literary borrowing -- Epic literature: Man's first heroic age -- To the royal bridegroom: First love song -- Book lists: First library catalogue -- World peace and harmony: Man's first golden age
ER  -