What makes civilization? : the ancient Near East and the future of the West /
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Chronology chart
- Introduction: A clash of civilizations?
- pt. 1. The cauldron of civilization
- Camouflaged borrowings
- On the trail of blue-haired gods
- Neolithic worlds
- The (first) global village
- Origin of cities
- From the Ganges to the Danube : the Bronze Age
- Cosmology and commerce
- The labours of kingship
- pt. 2. Forgetting the old regime
- Enlightenment from a dark source
- Ruined regimes : Egypt at the revolution
- Conclusion: What makes civilization?