Back to the garden : nature and the Mediterranean world from prehistory to the present / James H. S....
Back to the garden : nature and the Mediterranean world from prehistory to the present / James H. S....
Back to the garden : nature and the Mediterranean world from prehistory to the present / James H. S. McGregor.
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New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
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G 2015/3672
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English
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xii, 366 pages ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Introduction : How did we get here? -- Part I. Forging First Nature. 1. The Paleolithic landscape ; 2. Neolithic revolutions ; 3. The spread of farming culture ; 4. Uruk and Egypt, the great powers ; 5. The primacy of landscape in West Asia ; 6. Mediterranean trade and regional cooperation -- Part I...
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New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
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Connecticut
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[2015]
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"The garden was the cultural foundation of the early Mediterranean peoples; they acknowledged their reliance on and kinship to the land, and they understood nature through the lens of their diversely cultivated landscape. Their image of the garden underwrote the biblical book of Genesis and the region's three major religions. In this important meld...
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Back to the garden : nature and the Mediterranean world from prehistory to the present / James H. S. McGregor.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2015/3672
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74VKRaKLe3od
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKRaKLe3od
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0300197462 (hardback)
9780300197464 (hardback)
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304.2091822
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991023143049702626
