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What Makes Civilization? : the Ancient Near East and the Future of the West.
In What Makes Civilization?, archaeologist David Wengrow provides a vivid new account of the 'birth of civilization' in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia (today's Iraq). These two regions, where many foundations of modern life were laid, are usually treated in isolation. Now, they are bro...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
OUP Oxford,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In What Makes Civilization?, archaeologist David Wengrow provides a vivid new account of the 'birth of civilization' in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia (today's Iraq). These two regions, where many foundations of modern life were laid, are usually treated in isolation. Now, they are brought together within a unified history of how people first created cities, kingdoms, and monumental temples to the gods. But civilization, as Wengrow shows, is not only about such grand monuments. Just as importantly, it is also about the ordinary but fundamental practices of everyday life that we might take for g. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (238 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191585036 0191585033 1282659502 9781282659506 9786612659508 6612659505 0191613495 9780191613494 |