Life and Death of Ancient Cities

Life and Death of Ancient Cities

A Natural History

Woolf, Greg

Oxford University Press

08/2022

528

Mole

Inglês

9780199664740

15 a 20 dias

520

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List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements

PART 1: AN URBAN ANIMAL
1: To the City
2: Urban Apes
3: Settling Down
4: Uruk
5: First Cities
6: Cities of Bronze

PART 11: AN URBAN MEDITERRANEAN
7: The First Mediterranean Cities
8: Mariners and Chieftains
9: Western Pioneers
10: A Greek Lake
11: Networking the Mediterranean
12: Cities, States, and Kings

PART 111: IMPERIAL URBANISMS
13: City and Empire
14: Europe Awakes
15: Cities of Marble
16: Founding New Cities
17: Ruling Through Cities
18: The Ecology of Roman Urbanism

PART IV: DE-URBANIZATION
19: The Megalopoleis
20: Postclassical

Afterword
Further Reading
Timeline
Notes
Bibliography
Index