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The Cambridge World History
Edited By Norman Yof
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hardcover. The first book to compare the world's earliest cities, the history of research and meaning of early cities. Editor(s): Yoffee, Norman. Series: The Cambridge World History. Num Pages: 595 pages, 114 b/w illus. 13 tables. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLA; HBLC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 235 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1068.
From the fourth millennium BCE to the early second millennium CE the world became a world of cities. This volume explores this critical transformation, from the appearance of the earliest cities in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the rise of cities in Asia and the Mediterranean world, Africa, and the Americas. Through case studies and comparative accounts of key cities across the world, leading scholars chart the ways in which these cities grew as nodal points of pilgrimages and ceremonies, exchange, storage and redistribution, and centres for defence and warfare. They show how in these cities, along with their associated and ... Read more
From the fourth millennium BCE to the early second millennium CE the world became a world of cities. This volume explores this critical transformation, from the appearance of the earliest cities in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the rise of cities in Asia and the Mediterranean world, Africa, and the Americas. Through case studies and comparative accounts of key cities across the world, leading scholars chart the ways in which these cities grew as nodal points of pilgrimages and ceremonies, exchange, storage and redistribution, and centres for defence and warfare. They show how in these cities, along with their associated and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Series
The Cambridge World History
Number of Pages
595
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521190084
SKU
V9780521190084
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About Edited By Norman Yof
Norman Yoffee is author of Myths of the Archaic State: Evolution of the Earliest Cities, States, and Civilizations (Cambridge, 2005); Professor Emeritus, Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Anthropology, University of Michigan; Senior Fellow, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University. He has taught at the University of Arizona, the University of Sydney, the University of ... Read more
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