ISBN10: 0521190088, ISBN13: 9780521190084, [publisher: Cambridge University Press] Hardcover The first book to compare the world's earliest cities, the history of research and meaning of early cities. Editor(s): Yoffee, Norman. Series: The Cambridge World History. Num Pages: 595 pages, 114 b/w illus. 13 tables. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLA; HBLC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 235 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1068. . 2015. Illustrated. hardcover. . . . .
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Cambridge University Press 2015 Hard cover New The first book to compare the world's earliest cities, the history of research and meaning of early cities. Editor(s): Yoffee, Norman. Series: The Cambridge World History. Num Pages: 595 pages, 114 b/w illus. 13 tables. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLA; HBLC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 235 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1068. 2015. Illustrated. hardcover.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.

ISBN10: 0521190088, ISBN13: 9780521190084, [publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge] Hardcover Hardcover. From the fourth millennium BCE to the early second millennium CE the world became a world of cities. This volume explores this critical transformation, from the appearance of the earliest cities in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the rise of cities in Asia and the Mediterranean world, Africa, and the Americas. Through case studies and comparative accounts of key cities across the world, leading scholars chart the ways in which these cities grew as nodal points of pilgrimages and ceremonies, exchange, storage and redistribution, and centres for defence and warfare. They show how in these cities, along with their associated and restructured countrysides, new rituals and ceremonies connected leaders with citizens and the gods, new identities as citizens were created, and new forms of power and sovereignty emerged. They also examine how this unprecedented concentration of people led to disease, violence, slavery and subjugations of unprecedented kinds and scales. Comparison of early and ancient cities as arenas of performance, writing and information technology in early cities, how early cities transformed their landscapes, how power was created and resisted in early cities, and the nature of imperial cities. These comparisons also allow distinctive qualities of early cities to be identified. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US ...
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