The life and death of ancient cities : a natural history
| Parallelsachtitel: |
Ancient cities |
|---|---|
| 1. Verfasser: |
Woolf, Greg
, [VerfasserIn]
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2020]
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| Umfang/Format: |
xviii, 499 pages: illustrations, maps, 24 cm |
| Parallelausgabe: |
The life and death of ancient cities (Online version) |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Part 1. An urban animal
- To the city
- Urban apes
- Settling down
- Uruk
- First cities
- Cities of bronze
- Part 2. An urban Mediterranean
- The first Mediterranean cities
- Mariners and chieftains
- Western pioneers
- Greek lake
- Networking the Mediterranean
- Cities, states and kings
- Part 3. Imperial urbanisms
- City and empire
- Europe awakes
- Cities of marble
- Founding new cities
- Ruling through cities
- The ecology of Roman urbanism
- Part 4. De-urbanization
- The megalopoleis
- Postclassical
- Afterword: Mediterranean antiquity, an urban episode.
