Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World - Couverture rigide

Raaflaub, Kurt A.

 
9781118412503: Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1118412508 ISBN 13 : 9781118412503
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013

Synopsis

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 disciplines
  • Truly cross-cultural, covering historical thinking and writing in ancient or early cultures across in East, South, and West Asia, the Mediterranean, and the Americas
  • Includes historiography shaped by religious perspectives, including Judaism, early Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism

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À propos de l'auteur

Kurt A. Raaflaub is David Herlihy University Professor, and Professor of Classics and History, emeritus at Brown University. His publications include The Discovery of Freedom (2004), Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (with Josiah Ober and Robert Wallace, 2007), The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (ed., with Johann P. Arnason, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies (with Richard J. A. Talbert, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), and The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy: A Politico-Cultural Transformation and Its Interpretations (ed., with Johann P. Arnason and Peter Wager, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).

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Éditeur
Wiley-Blackwell
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1118412508
ISBN 13 
9781118412503
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
440
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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