The life and death of ancient cities: a natural history
The story of ancient cities from the end of the Bronze Age to the beginning of the Middle Ages: a tale of war and politics, pestilence and famine, triumph and tragedy, by turns both fabulous and squalid.
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
[2020]
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Woolf, Greg, 1961-, The life and death of ancient cities : a natural history] (2023) (Stenschke, Christoph W., 1966 -)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Classical antiquity
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| Further subjects: | B
Electronic books
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| Summary: | The story of ancient cities from the end of the Bronze Age to the beginning of the Middle Ages: a tale of war and politics, pestilence and famine, triumph and tragedy, by turns both fabulous and squalid. Intro -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Figures -- Maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: An Urban Animal -- 1. To the City -- The Long View -- The Mediterranean Story -- An Urban Mirage -- 2. Urban Apes -- The Great Disconnect -- Apes on the Move -- Accidentally Urban -- Urban Appetites -- Urban Bodies -- Urban Brains -- 3. Settling Down -- Into the Holocene -- From Foragers to Farmers -- Staying Put -- A World of Villages -- 4. Uruk -- Gilgamesh the King -- The King and the City -- The Uruk Phenomenon -- Why Uruk? -- 5. First Cities -- Where Cities Grew -- The Earliest Urban Experiments -- Inventions, Collapses, Reinventions -- What Were Early Cities Like? -- 6. Cities of Bronze -- Connected Cities -- A Bronze Age World-System -- Early Experiments -- The Expansion of Multispecies Societies -- The Bronze Age World-System Expands -- Europe and the Mediterranean in Late Prehistory -- Part II: An Urban Mediterranean -- 7. The First Mediterranean Cities -- A Sea in Fragments -- Farmers Moving West -- The Copper Island -- Crete and the Cyclades -- Mycenaean Greece -- Collapse -- Bronze Age Urbanisms in the Mediterranean World -- 8. Mariners and Chieftains -- Interlude -- Experiments -- The Kindness of Strangers -- The West Awakens -- 9. Western Pioneers -- A Different Road to Urbanism -- Cities of the Dead -- Etruscan Cities -- An Urban Network -- Myths of Origin -- The Early History of the Western Greeks -- The Contact Zone -- 10. A Greek Lake -- The Thirsty Greeks -- Dreams of the City -- The Widening Horizon -- Greeks and Others -- An Urban Mediterranean, a Greek Mediterranean -- 11. Networking the Mediterranean -- A Networked World -- Myths of the Net -- Information Exchange -- Cities of Stone -- 12. Cities, States, and Kings -- Getting Political. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [453]-493 |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 499 Seiten), Illustrationen, Karten |
| ISBN: | 0191641820 |