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The second volume in a American Historical Association's series, this pretension introduces readers to a cross-cultural investigate of ancient and exemplary civilizations. The opening letter by Jerry Bentley surveys methodologies and vicious interpretations that have been essential to a growth of analogous chronological analysis. These embody contributions from a fields of sociology, archaeology, linguistics, anthropology, and new inquisitive practices that respect formerly neglected groups and countenance testimony upheld down by verbal traditions. The initial set of essays prominence accepted themes in tellurian story by examining a ongoing interactions between ancient agrarian and winding societies as good as a impact of these exchanges on mercantile growth and cross-cultural adaptation. The essays in a second territory concentration on informal patterns in a distribution of ideas, institutions, and element culture. By highlighting pivotal chronological transitions and repeated informative patterns, this book provides an enchanting introduction to a complexities of tellurian development. Written by heading scholars in a field, a historiographic essays in Agricultural and Pastoral Societies in Ancient and Classical History offer students and teachers a extensive overview of a arguments, applications, and resources that surprise analogous tellurian history. Author note: Michael Adas is Abraham Voorhees Professor of History during Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He is now editor of a American Historical Association's array on "Global and Comparative History" and co-editor of a Cambridge University Press array on "Studies in Comparative World History". He has published countless articles and books, including many recently (with Peter Stearns and Stuart Schwartz) "World Civilization: The Global Experience" (1992) and "Turbulent Passage: A Global History of a Twentieth Century" (1993).
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #1992959 in Books
- Published on: 2001-02-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.72 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 376 pages
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"Viewed as a whole, this volume forms a vital grant to a stream 'global discourse' in chronological scholarship." --Ancient East & West
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An in-depth hearing of a early story of humankind.
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The second volume in a American Historical Association's array introduces readers to a cross-cultural investigate of ancient and exemplary civilizations. The opening letter by Jerry Bentley surveys methodologies and vicious interpretations that have been essential to a growth of analogous chronological analysis. These embody contributions from a fields of sociology, archaeology, linguistics, and anthropology, and new inquisitive practices that respect formerly neglected groups and countenance testimony upheld down by verbal traditions. The initial set of essays prominence accepted themes in tellurian story by examining a ongoing interactions between ancient agrarian and winding societies as good as a impact of these exchanges on mercantile growth and cross-cultural adaptation. The essays in a second territory concentration on informal patterns in a distribution of ideas, institutions, and element culture.
By highlighting pivotal chronological transitions and repeated informative patterns, this book provides an enchanting introduction to a complexities of tellurian development. Written by heading scholars in a field, a historiographic essays in Agricultural and Pastoral Societies in Ancient and Classical History offer students and teachers a extensive overview of a arguments, applications, and resources that surprise analogous tellurian history.
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