The city in the ancient world /
| Main Author: | Hammond, Mason, 1903-2002. |
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| Other Authors: | Bartson, Lester J. 1943- |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass.,
Harvard University Press,
1972.
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| Series: |
Harvard studies in urban history.
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City in the ancient world. |
Table of Contents:
- Definitions, Evidence, and Prehistoric Chronology
- Background to the Emergence of the City
- Mesopotamia: Early Technological and Social Progress
- Mesopotamia: The City Emerges in Sumer
- Mesopotamia: From City to Empire Akkad, Babylonia, Assyria, and Persia
- The Indus Valley: A Dead End
- Egypt: Civilization of Palaces, Temples, and Tombs
- Canaan: Cities of Commerce
- Anatolia: Abortive Cities
- The Aegean Civilization: Palaces or Cities
- The Indo-Europeans: Tribesmen Urbanized
- Summary: The City Before the Greeks
- Archaic Greece: The Emergence of the City-State
- Classical Greece: Age of the City-State
- Hellenistic Territorial States: Restriction and Spread of the City-State
- Greek and Roman City Design and Urban Planning
- The City in Early Italy and the Rise of Rome
- Republican Rome: Success and Failure as a City State
- The Early Roman Empire: An Oecumene of Free Citizens under One Rule
- The Late Roman Empire: Withering of the City-State
- The City in the Early Medieval West and in the Byzantine East
- Recapitulation