Imagining Babylon The Modern Story of an Ancient City
Stereotypes of the oriental city before and after their rediscovery. Oriental versus Western city. The improvements in digging techniques and in graphic visualization. From evolutionism to neo-evolutionism. From colonialism to decolonization. Neo-marxist and neo-capitalist theories. City, village, a...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin/Boston
De Gruyter
2016
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Colección: | Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER)
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Preface To The Italian Edition
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Abbreviations
- 1. Rediscovery and perplexity
- 2. Acceptance and modification
- 3. The season of theoretical models
- 4. The new models in practice
- 5. Modernity: new approaches and new settings
- 6. Post-modernity: computerization and deconstruction
- Bibliography
- Index