Télécharger le livre :  On Human Bondage
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On Human Bondage—a critical reexamination of Orlando Patterson’s groundbreaking Slavery and Social Death—assesses how his theories have stood the test of time and applies them to new case studies. Discusses the novel ideas of social death and natal alienation, as...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2016-12-12
Collection : Ancient World: Comparative Histories
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Télécharger le livre :  The Adventure of the Human Intellect
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The Adventure of the Human Intellect presents the latest scholarship on the beginnings of intellectual history on a broad scope, encompassing ten eminent ancient or early civilizations from both the Old and New Worlds. Borrows themes fromThe Intellectual Adventure of...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2016-04-27
Collection : Ancient World: Comparative Histories
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Télécharger le livre :  Peace in the Ancient World
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Peace in the Ancient World: Concepts and Theories conducts a comparative investigation of why certain ancient societies produced explicit concepts and theories of peace and others did not. Explores the idea that concepts of peace in antiquity occurred only in periods...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2016-03-18
Collection : Ancient World: Comparative Histories
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Télécharger le livre :  Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World
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Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World presents a cross-cultural comparison of the ways in which ancient civilizations thought about the past and recorded their own histories. Written by an international group of scholars working in many...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2013-11-08
Collection : Ancient World: Comparative Histories
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149,76
Télécharger le livre :  The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy
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The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy presents a series of essays that trace the Greeks’ path to democracy and examine the connection between the Greek polis as a citizen state and democracy as well as the interaction between democracy and various forms of...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2013-04-29
Collection : Ancient World: Comparative Histories
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145,48
Télécharger le livre :  The Gift in Antiquity
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“The Gift in Antiquity is an exciting and learned dialogue with Marcel Mauss’s The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies, published ninety years ago. The essays engage Mauss’s model, offering critique and nuance, and sometimes push Mauss’s insights...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2013-02-22
Collection : Ancient World: Comparative Histories
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125,49
Télécharger le livre :  Geography and Ethnography
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This fascinating volume brings together leading specialists, who have analyzed the thoughts and records documenting the worldviews of a wide range of pre-modern societies. Presents evidence from across the ages; from antiquity through to the Age of Discovery Provides...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2012-12-18
Collection : Ancient World: Comparative Histories
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Télécharger le livre :  Household and Family Religion in Antiquity
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The first book to explore the religious dimensions of the family and the household in ancient Mediterranean and West Asian antiquity. Advances our understanding of household and familial religion, as opposed to state-sponsored or civic temple cults Reconstructs...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2012-02-15
Collection : Ancient World: Comparative Histories
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Télécharger le livre :  The Roman Empire in Context
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Through a series of original essays by leading international scholars, The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives offers a comparative historical analysis of the Roman empire’s role and achievement and, more broadly, establishes Rome’s...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2010-12-23
Collection : Ancient World: Comparative Histories
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Télécharger le livre :  Geography and Ethnography
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This fascinating volume brings together leading specialists, who have analyzed the thoughts and records documenting the worldviews of a wide range of pre-modern societies. Presents evidence from across the ages; from antiquity through to the Age of Discovery Provides...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2009-12-17
Collection : Ancient World: Comparative Histories
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Télécharger le livre :  Epic and History
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With contributions from leading scholars, this is a unique cross-cultural comparison of historical epics across a wide range of cultures and time periods, which presents crucial insights into how history is treated in narrative poetry. The first book to gain new...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2009-10-27
Collection : Ancient World: Comparative Histories
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Télécharger le livre :  Epic and History
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With contributions from leading scholars, this is a unique cross-cultural comparison of historical epics across a wide range of cultures and time periods, which presents crucial insights into how history is treated in narrative poetry. The first book to gain new...

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Parution : 2009-10-27
Collection : Ancient World: Comparative Histories
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