Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewCities are so common today that we cannot imagine a world without them. More than half of the world’s population lives in cities, and that proportion is growing. Yet for most of our history, there were no cities. Why, how, and when did urban life begin? Ancient cities have much to tell us about the social, political, religious, and economic conditions of their times—and also about our own. Ongoing excavations all over the world are enabling scholars to document intra-city changes through time, city-to-city interaction, and changing relations between cities and their hinterlands. The essays in this volume—presented at a Sackler colloquium of the National Academy of Sciences—reveal that archaeologists now know much more about the founding and functions of ancient cities, their diverse trade networks, their heterogeneous plans and layouts, and their various lifespans and trajectories. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Joyce Marcus , Jeremy A. Sabloff , Karl W. Butzer , Janet DeLainePublisher: SAR Press Imprint: SAR Press Dimensions: Width: 17.50cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 25.10cm Weight: 0.820kg ISBN: 9781934691021ISBN 10: 193469102 Pages: 424 Publication Date: 30 October 2008 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsIntroduction Joyce Marcus and Jeremy A. Sabloff The City through Time and Space: Transformations of Centrality Colin Renfrew Early Cities: Craft Workers, Kings, and Controlling the Supernatural Bruce G. Trigger Analyzing Cities Mogens Herman Hansen Other Perspectives on Urbanism: Beyond the Disciplinary Boundaries Karl W. Butzer Between Concept and Reality: Case Studies in the Development of Roman Cities in the Mediterranean Janet DeLaine Urban Foundation, Planning, and Sustainability in the Roman Northwestern Provinces Michael J. Jones A Tale of Two Cities: Lowland Mesopotamia and Highland Anatolia Elizabeth C. Stone Royal Cities and Cult Centers, Administrative Towns, and Workmen’s Settlements in Ancient Egypt Kathryn A. Bard Indus Urbanism: New Perspectives on Its Origin and Character Jonathan Mark Kenoyer Stages in the Development of “Cities” in Pre-Imperial China Lothar von Falkenhausen Early African Cities: Their Role in the Shaping of Urban and Rural Interaction Spheres Chapurukha M. Kusimba Pomp and Circumstance before Belize: Ancient Maya Commerce and the New River Conurbation K. Anne Pyburn Incidental Urbanism: The Structure of the Prehispanic City in Central Mexico Kenneth G. Hirth Links in the Chain of Inka Cities: Communication, Alliance, and the Cultural Production of Status, Value, and Power Craig Morris Cities and Urbanism: Central Themes and Future Directions Joyce Marcus and Jeremy A. SabloffReviews“The…book is informative and authoritative….The editors review much literature on the study of cities, especially four models of cities developed by the University of Chicago sociologists working in the 1920s and 1930s.” —Norman Yoffee, Reviews in Anthropology, vol. 38, issue 4, 2009 The...book is informative and authoritative....The editors review much literature on the study of cities, especially four models of cities developed by the University of Chicago sociologists working in the 1920s and 1930s. -Norman Yoffee, Reviews in Anthropology, vol. 38, issue 4, 2009 Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
