The Ancient City

Name: The Ancient City
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521166010
Price: 4700 KES
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780521166010

by Arjan Zuiderhoek

Book Details

Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Key Themes in Ancient History

ISBN-10 0521166012

ISBN-13 9780521166010

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Oct 31st, 2016

Print length 236 Pages

Weight 356 grams

Dimensions 15.50 x 22.60 x 1.50 cms

Product Classification: European history Ancient history: to c 500 CE Social & cultural history Urban communities / city life Urban communities Ancient history European history Social and cultural history

KSh 4,700.00

Manufactured on Demand Delivery in 49 days 3 copies in stock

Delivery Location

County

Location

Delivery fee: Select location

Delivery in 49 days

Secure

Quality

Fast

This book provides an accessible survey of scholarly debates on Greek and Roman cities, as well as a sketch of the cities' chief characteristics. It is aimed primarily at students of ancient history and general readers, but also at scholars working on urbanism in other periods and places.

Greece and Rome were quintessentially urban societies. Ancient culture, politics and society arose and developed in the context of the polis and the civitas. In modern scholarship, the ancient city has been the subject of intense debates due to the strong association in Western thought between urbanism, capitalism and modernity. In this book, Arjan Zuiderhoek provides a survey of the main issues at stake in these debates, as well as a sketch of the chief characteristics of Greek and Roman cities. He argues that the ancient Greco-Roman city was indeed a highly specific form of urbanism, but that this does not imply that the ancient city was somehow 'superior' or 'inferior' to forms of urbanism in other societies, just (interestingly) different. The book is aimed primarily at students of ancient history and general readers, but also at scholars working on urbanism in other periods and places.

Get The Ancient City by Arjan Zuiderhoek at the best price and quality guaranteed only at Werezi Africa's largest book ecommerce store. The book was published by Cambridge University Press and it has 236 pages.