The Ancient city : new perspectives on urbanism in the old and new world
edited by Joyce Marcus and Jeremy A. Sabloff
Bok · Engelsk · 2008
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| Utgitt | Santa Fe, N.M. : School for Advanced Research Press , cop. 2008
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| Omfang | XVI, 405 s. : ill., kart
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | "This publication results from an Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium of the National Academy of Sciences, "Early cities: new perspectives on pre-industrial urbanism," held May 18-20, 2005, at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC.". - Introduction / 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. Sabloff.
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| ISBN | 9781934691021
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