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The Ancient City: New Perspectives on Urbanism in the Old and New World (A School for Advanced Research Resident Scholar Book)
Joyce Marcus
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Paperback. Why, how, and when did urban life begin? Ancient cities have much to tell us about the social, political, religious, and economic conditions of their times--and also about our own. Editor(s): Marcus, Joyce. Num Pages: 424 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLA; JFSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 26. Weight in Grams: 928.
Cities are so common today that we cannot imagine a world without them. More than half of the world’s population lives in cities, and that proportion is growing. Yet for most of our history, there were no cities. Why, how, and when did urban life begin? Ancient cities have much to tell us about the social, political, religious, and economic conditions of their times—and also about our own. Ongoing excavations all over the world are enabling scholars to document intra-city changes through time, city-to-city interaction, and changing relations between cities and their hinterlands. The essays in this volume—presented at a ... Read more
Cities are so common today that we cannot imagine a world without them. More than half of the world’s population lives in cities, and that proportion is growing. Yet for most of our history, there were no cities. Why, how, and when did urban life begin? Ancient cities have much to tell us about the social, political, religious, and economic conditions of their times—and also about our own. Ongoing excavations all over the world are enabling scholars to document intra-city changes through time, city-to-city interaction, and changing relations between cities and their hinterlands. The essays in this volume—presented at a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
School for Advanced Research Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Santa Fe, United States
ISBN
9781934691021
SKU
V9781934691021
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Reviews for The Ancient City: New Perspectives on Urbanism in the Old and New World (A School for Advanced Research Resident Scholar Book)
“The…book is informative and authoritative….The editors review much literature on the study of cities, especially four models of cities developed by the University of Chicago sociologists working in the 1920s and 1930s.” —Norman Yoffee, Reviews in Anthropology, vol. 38, issue 4, 2009