The life and death of ancient cities : a natural history / Greg Woolf.
The life and death of ancient cities : a natural history / Greg Woolf.
The life and death of ancient cities : a natural history / Greg Woolf.
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New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
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G 2020/3316
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English
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Physical content
xviii, 499 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Part 1. An urban animal -- To the city -- Urban apes -- Settling down -- Uruk -- First cities -- Cities of bronze -- Part 2. An urban Mediterranean -- The first Mediterranean cities -- Mariners and chieftains -- Western pioneers -- Greek lake -- Networking the Mediterranean -- Cities, states and kin...
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New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2020]
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"This book offer a new account of the ancient cities of the Mediterranean world. We are used to thinking of Athens and Rome and Alexandria as great models of urbanism, and of the ancient world itself as a world of cities. In fact cities came late to this corner of Eurasia and were almost always tiny compared to those of neighbouring regions. Greg W...
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The life and death of ancient cities : a natural history / Greg Woolf.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-493) and index.
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©2020
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G 2020/3316
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74VKam7kx6lg
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ISBN
0199664730 hardcover
9780199946129 hardcover
0199946124 hardcover
9780199664733 hardcover
DDC
307.760937
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991024333617302626
