{"product_id":"the-ancient-city-new-perspectives-on-urbanism-in-the-old-and-new-world-9781934691021","title":"The Ancient City: New Perspectives on Urbanism in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCities are so common today that we cannot imagine a world without them. More than half of the world’s population lives in cities, and that proportion is growing. Yet for most of our history, there were no cities. Why, how, and when did urban life begin? Ancient cities have much to tell us about the social, political, religious, and economic conditions of their times—and also about our own. Ongoing excavations all over the world are enabling scholars to document intra-city changes through time, city-to-city interaction, and changing relations between cities and their hinterlands. The essays in this volume—presented at a Sackler colloquium of the National Academy of Sciences—reveal that archaeologists now know much more about the founding and functions of ancient cities, their diverse trade networks, their heterogeneous plans and layouts, and their various lifespans and trajectories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The…book is informative and authoritative….The editors review much literature on the study of cities, especially four models of cities developed by the University of Chicago sociologists working in the 1920s and 1930s.”\u003cbr\u003e—Norman Yoffee, Reviews in Anthropology, vol. 38, issue 4, 2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eJoyce Marcus and Jeremy A. Sabloff\u003cbr\u003eThe City through Time and Space: Transformations of Centrality\u003cbr\u003eColin Renfrew\u003cbr\u003eEarly Cities: Craft Workers, Kings, and Controlling the Supernatural\u003cbr\u003eBruce G. Trigger\u003cbr\u003eAnalyzing Cities\u003cbr\u003eMogens Herman Hansen\u003cbr\u003eOther Perspectives on Urbanism: Beyond the Disciplinary Boundaries\u003cbr\u003eKarl W. Butzer\u003cbr\u003eBetween Concept and Reality: Case Studies in the Development of Roman Cities in the Mediterranean\u003cbr\u003eJanet DeLaine\u003cbr\u003eUrban Foundation, Planning, and Sustainability in the Roman Northwestern Provinces\u003cbr\u003eMichael J. Jones\u003cbr\u003eA Tale of Two Cities: Lowland Mesopotamia and Highland Anatolia\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth C. Stone\u003cbr\u003eRoyal Cities and Cult Centers, Administrative Towns, and Workmen’s Settlements in Ancient Egypt\u003cbr\u003eKathryn A. Bard\u003cbr\u003eIndus Urbanism: New Perspectives on Its Origin and Character\u003cbr\u003eJonathan Mark Kenoyer\u003cbr\u003eStages in the Development of “Cities” in Pre-Imperial China\u003cbr\u003eLothar von Falkenhausen\u003cbr\u003eEarly African Cities: Their Role in the Shaping of Urban and Rural Interaction Spheres\u003cbr\u003eChapurukha M. Kusimba\u003cbr\u003ePomp and Circumstance before Belize: Ancient Maya Commerce and the New River Conurbation\u003cbr\u003eK. Anne Pyburn\u003cbr\u003eIncidental Urbanism: The Structure of the Prehispanic City in Central Mexico\u003cbr\u003eKenneth G. Hirth\u003cbr\u003eLinks in the Chain of Inka Cities: Communication, Alliance, and the Cultural Production of Status, Value, and Power\u003cbr\u003eCraig Morris\u003cbr\u003eCities and Urbanism: Central Themes and Future Directions\u003cbr\u003eJoyce Marcus and Jeremy A. Sabloff","brand":"SAR Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51138438562135,"sku":"9781934691021","price":26.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781934691021.jpg?v=1751919410","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-ancient-city-new-perspectives-on-urbanism-in-the-old-and-new-world-9781934691021","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}