Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1118589858 ISBN 13 : 9781118589854

Editeur : *Wiley-Blackwell, 2013

Synopsis

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 cross-cultural comparison of ancient societies around the globe, from the Chinese to the Incas and Aztecs, from the Greeks and Romans to the peoples of ancient India
• Explores newly discovered medieval Islamic materials
  

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kurt A. Raaflaub is David Herlihy University Professor, and Professor of Classics and History, at Brown University. His numerous publications include The Discovery of Freedom (2004) and Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007, co-authored with Josiah Ober and Robert Wallace). He is also the editor of Social Struggles in Archaic Rome (Blackwell, 2005), and War and Peace in the Ancient World (Blackwell, 2007), and co-editor of A Companion to Archaic Greece (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).

Richard J.A. Talbert is William Rand Kenan, Jr, Professor of History and Classics at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the editor of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (2000), and co-editor of Space in the Roman World: Its Perception and Presentation (2004), as well as of Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Fresh Perspectives, New Methods (2008). His major study Rome's World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered will appear in 2010.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: *Wiley-Blackwell
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1118589858
• ISBN 13: 9781118589854
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 376
• Éditeur: Raaflaub Kurt A., Talbert Richard J. A.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible