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  • Nomads Of South Persia - The Basseri Tribe Of The Khamseh Confederacy

    de Frederik Barth ...
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Leer más

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  • Against the Grain

    A Deep History of the Earliest States

    de James C. Scott ...
    An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations that contradict the standard narrativeWhy did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today’s states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt

    de Ian Shaw ...
    The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt uniquely covers 700,000 years of ancient Egypt from the stone age to the Roman conquest. The story of the ancient Egyptians, from their prehistoric origins to their conquest by the Persians, Greeks, and Romans makes for fascinating reading, with subjects ranging from the changing nature of life and death in the Nile valley to some of the earliest masterpieces of ... Leer más

    $17.09 USD

  • The Sumerian World

    Edición de Harriet Crawford ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    The Sumerian World explores the archaeology, history and art of southern Mesopotamia and its relationships with its neighbours from c.3,000 - 2,000BC. Including material hitherto unpublished from recent excavations, the articles are organised thematically using evidence from archaeology, texts and the natural sciences. This broad treatment will also make the volume of interest to students looking ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

  • Sumerians: A History From Beginning to End

    de Henry Freeman ...
    A legendary civilization vanished under the Fertile Crescent and escaped a fate worse than death until Sumerologists questioned widely accepted truths. The Sumerians reemerged onto the extraordinary timeline of human history. Their tales of kings and gods, including the Epic of Gilgamesh, and their fearless trade in distant lands, during the remarkable Bronze Age, centered in the world's first ... Leer más

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  • Greater Ethiopia

    The Evolution of a Multiethnic Society

    de Donald N. Levine ...
    Greater Ethiopia combines history, anthropology, and sociology to answer two major questions. Why did Ethiopia remain independent under the onslaught of European expansionism while other African political entities were colonized? And why must Ethiopia be considered a single cultural region despite its political, religious, and linguistic diversity?Donald Levine's interdisciplinary study makes a ... Leer más

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  • The Social Life of Things

    Commodities in Cultural Perspective

    Edición de Arjun Appadurai ...
    The meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circulated. The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Focusing on culturally defined aspects of exchange and socially regulated processes of ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Egyptian World

    Edición de Toby Wilkinson ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    Authoritative and up-to-date, this key single-volume work is a thematic exploration of ancient Egyptian civilization and culture as it was expressed down the centuries.Including topics rarely covered elsewhere as well as new perspectives, this work comprises thirty-two original chapters written by international experts. Each chapter gives an overvi ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Mesopotamia Before History

    de Petr Charvát ...
    Mesopotamia was one of the earliest regions to produce writing, literature and the fine arts, as well as being one of the first areas to construct states. This comprehensive and detailed survey of the region's prehistory and protohistory shows how these fascinating developments were possible. Petr Charvát explores the economic, social and spiritual spheres in Mesopotamia from the Palaeolithic to ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Caravan - The Story of Middle East

    de Carleton S. Coon ...
    No man could hope to draw together the various fields from which the materials of this book are derived if he were a scholar in any one of them. No one could feel less scholarly than I do. This becomes particularly evident when the subject of Arabic transliteration arises, as it always does in forewords to books on the Middle East. I have before me the handiwork of Hitti, Gibb, and Calverley, ... Leer más

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  • Marriage and Civilization

    How Monogamy Made Us Human

    de William Tucker ...
    In his stunning new book, Marriage and Civilization, author William Tucker looks at the evidence from biology, evolution, anthropology, history, and culture to come to a remarkable conclusion: it was the monogamous pairing of male and female - unusual among mammals - that led to human evolution. Moreover, it is monogamous marriage that has shaped Western Civilization, giving us our sense of ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Aegean from Bronze Age to Iron Age

    Continuity and Change Between the Twelfth and Eighth Centuries BC

    de Oliver Dickinson ...
    Following Oliver Dickinson’s successful The Aegean Bronze Age, this textbook is a synthesis of the period between the collapse of the Bronze Age civilization in the thirteenth and twelfth centuries BC, and the rise of the Greek civilization in the eighth century BC.With chapter bibliographies, distribution maps and illustrations, Dickinson’s detailed examination of material and archaeological ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD