Globalizations and the Ancient World

Informationen zum Autor Justin Jennings is Associate Curator of New World Archaeology at the Royal Ontario Museum and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. He writes widely on archaeology for both scholarly and general audiences and recently edited Drink, Power, and Society in the Andes and Beyond Wari Walls. Klappentext Argues that globalization is not just a phenomenon limited to modern times! but is the latest in a series of globalizing movements in human history. Zusammenfassung In this book! Justin Jennings argues that globalization is not just a modern phenomenon. Instead he contends that the globalization of today is just the latest in a series of globalizing movements in human history. Using the Uruk! Mississippian! and Wari civilizations as case studies! Jennings examines how the growth of the world's first great cities radically transformed their respective areas. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Modernity's greatest theft; 2. How to pluralize globalization; 3. Cities and the spread of the first global cultures; 4. Uruk-warka; 5. Cahokia; 6. Huari; 7. But were they really global cultures?; 8. Learning from past globalizations.

Product details

• Authors: Justin Jennings, Jennings Justin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2010
• EAN: 9780521760775
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76077-5
• Dimensions: 190 mm x 264 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); prehistory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Archaeology by period / region, Prehistoric archaeology