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What Makes Civilization?: The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West Taschenbuch – Illustriert, 1. April 2018
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Today, perhaps more than ever, he argues, the beleaguered cultural heritage of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia stands as a warning for the future. A warning of the sacrifices people will tolerate to preserve their chosen form of life; of the potential for unfettered expansion that exists within any cultural tradition; and of blood perhaps yet to be spilled, on the altar of a misguided notion of civilization.
- Seitenzahl der Print-Ausgabe217 Seiten
- SpracheEnglisch
- HerausgeberOxford University Press
- Erscheinungstermin1. April 2018
- Abmessungen1.02 x 12.7 x 19.3 cm
- ISBN-109780199699421
- ISBN-13978-0199699421
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Convincingly concludes that the parallel development of Mesopotamia and Egypt demonstrates the deep attachment of human societies to the concepts they live by, and the inequalities they are prepared to endure in order to preserve those guiding principles. ― Nature
What Makes Civilization? [...] is expertly grounded, thoughtfully written and discreetly radical in its findings. ― Dominic Green, Minerva01/01/2019
What Makes Civilization? is well written for a student or educated lay-person audience...when the past is being employed to understand the present or predict the future of human societies, archaeologists must be part of the discussion. ― Current Anthropology
This book promises a lot and delivers even more...It guides readers into the heart of the sources of civilization. ― Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institue
Provocative....stimulating... ― Steven Snape, History Today
Lively and insightful work. ― Geoff Ward, Western Daily Press
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- ASIN : 0199699429
- Herausgeber : Oxford University Press; Reprint Edition (1. April 2018)
- Sprache : Englisch
- Taschenbuch : 217 Seiten
- ISBN-10 : 9780199699421
- ISBN-13 : 978-0199699421
- Abmessungen : 1.02 x 12.7 x 19.3 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 886,812 in Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Bücher)
- Nr. 398 in Naher Osten
- Nr. 584 in Politik & Geschichte des Antiken Ägyptens (Bücher)
- Nr. 655 in Lexika, Hand- & Jahrbücher der Antike (Bücher)
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I am disappointed. Reads like a high school essay. Wikipedia articles are better written and interesting. Did not find anything much informative about civilizaton. I am disappointed.Short book and too expensive
I found Wengrow’s erudite book a lot more satisfying and thought-provoking than the recent BBC series which discussed Civilisations from an art-history rather than archaeological perspective.
The book is clearly written and seems to be aimed at a general, rather than specialist, readership.
Highly recommended.
The book's primary theses are:
1. Capitalism, including its psychological impacts like anomie and Lucascian 'reification', and its physical manifestations like cities and international trade routes, began in the ancient prehistorical Neolithic (early Stone) and early Bronze Ages.
2. A universal temporal 'track' or progression of civilization identified by many a historical/ political theorist is nonsense. Techniques and technology are *spatially* contingent. Early trading civilizations were interdependent, with different nations manifesting different 'marks of civilization' *concurrently*, with all benefiting from the resulting diversity. Highland miner-shepherds brought precious metals to the markets of lowland farmer-fishermen. Here the author echoes Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel"
If you're not well versed in this period of history (like me!), this is an incredibly accessible and friendly book. The maps are simple and effective. The author's anti-orientalist chapter(s) at the end (modern cultural uses of the 'mystic orient' icon) have a slapdash, last-minute character. But *because* of that afterthought quality, you can easily bifurcate them from the rest of the book and focus on the goods.





