Section outline

  • Required Reading

    • T. Bryce, “The Hittite Empire,” in CAANE, 722-39
    • C. Gatz, “Negotiating Empire: A Comparative Investigation into the Responses to Hittite Imperialism by the Vassal State of Ugarit and the Kaska of Pontic Anatolia,” in G. E. Areshian (ed.), Empires and Diversity: On the Crossroads of Archaeology, Anthropology and History (Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2013), 21-56

    Optional Reading

    • C. Glatz, “Empire as Network: Spheres of Material Interaction in Late Bronze Age Anatolia,” Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 28 (2009), 127-41
    • E. Devecchi, “The Governance of the Subordinated Countries,” in S. de Martino (ed.), Handbook Hittite Empire (Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022), 271-312
    • M. Durusu-Tanrıöver, “Ways of Being Hittite: Empire and Borderlands in Late Bronze Age Anatolia and Northern Syria,” Studia Orientalia Electronica 9/2 (2021), 3-27