What Makes Civilization?
The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 July 2010
- ISBN 9780192805805
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 204x139x22 mm
- Weight 351 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 20 black and white halftones, 6 maps 0
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A vivid new account of the 'birth of civilization' in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia where many of the foundations of modern life were laid
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In What Makes Civilization?, archaeologist David Wengrow provides a vivid new account of the 'birth of civilization' in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia (today's Iraq). These two regions, where many foundations of modern life were laid, are usually treated in isolation. Now, they are brought together within a unified history of how people first created cities, kingdoms, and monumental temples to the gods.
But civilization, as Wengrow shows, is not only about such grand monuments. Just as importantly, it is also about the ordinary but fundamental practices of everyday life that we might take for granted, such as cooking food and keeping the house and body clean.Tracing the development of such practices, from prehistoric times to the age of the pyramids, the book reveals unsuspected connections between distant regions, and provides new insights into the workings of societies we have come to regard
as remote from our own. It also forces us to recognize that civilizations are not formed in isolation, but through the mixing and borrowing of culture between societies.
The book concludes by drawing telling parallels between the ancient Near East and more recent attempts at reshaping the world order to an ideal image. Are the sacrifices we now make in the name of 'our' civilization really so different from those once made on the altars of the gods?
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.
Table of Contents:
Chronological Chart
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction: a clash of civilizations?
Part One: 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
Part Two: Forgetting the Old Regime
Enlightenment from a Dark Source
Ruined Regimes: Egypt at the Revolution
Conclusion: what makes civilization?
Further Reading
Index
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