1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990003027360203316

Titolo

Ancient economies modern methodologies : archaeology, comparative history, models and institutions / edited by Peter F. Bang, Mamoru Ikeguchi and Hartmut G. Ziche

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bari : Edipuglia, 2006

ISBN

978-88-7228-488-9

Descrizione fisica

278 p. ; 24 cm

Collana

Pragmateiai

Disciplina

330.901

Soggetti

Economia - Storia - Antichità

Collocazione

IX.4. 540

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460372203321

Autore

Van de Mieroop Marc

Titolo

A history of the ancient Near East ca. 3000-323 BC / / Marc Van De Mieroop

Pubbl/distr/stampa

West Sussex, England : , : John Wiley & Sons Ltd, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-118-71817-8

1-118-71823-2

Edizione

[3rd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (492 p.)

Collana

Blackwell History of the Ancient World

Disciplina

939/.4

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Middle East History To 622

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Series""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright""; ""List of Debates""; ""List of Boxes""; ""List of Documents""; ""Preface""; ""Author's Note""; ""1 Introductory Concerns""; ""1.1 What Is the Ancient Near East?""; ""1.2 The Sources""; ""1.3 Geography""; ""1.4 Prehistoric Developments""; ""Part I City-States""; ""2 Origins: The Uruk Phenomenon""; ""2.1 The Origins of Cities""; ""2.2 The Development of Writing and Administration""; ""2.3 The "Uruk Expansion"""; ""2.4 Uruk's Aftermath""; ""Note""; ""3 Competing City-States: The Early Dynastic Period""

""13.1 The Creation of an Imperial Structure""""13.2 The Defeat of the Great Rivals""; ""13.3 The Administration and Ideology of the Empire""; ""13.4 Assyrian Culture""; ""13.5 Assyria's Fall""; ""Notes""; ""14 The Medes and Babylonians""; ""14.1 The Medes and the Anatolian States""; ""14.2 The Neo-Babylonian Dynasty""; ""Notes""; ""15 The Creation of a World Empire: Persia""; ""15.1 The Sources and Their Challenges""; ""15.2 The Rise of Persia and Its Expansion""; ""15.3 Governance of the Subject States""; ""15.4 The Creation of an Imperial Structure""

""16 Governing a World Empire: Persia""



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456387603321

Autore

Jasen Patricia

Titolo

Wild things : nature, culture, and tourism in Ontario, 1790-1914 / / Patricia Jasen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1995

©1995

ISBN

0-8020-7638-6

1-282-00315-1

9786612003158

1-4426-8349-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

338.4/791713

Soggetti

Tourism - Ontario - History

Ecotourism - Ontario - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-183) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. Introduction: Nature, Culture, and Tourism -- 2. Taming Niagara -- 3. Wilderness Panorama -- 4. Native Lands -- 5. A Rest Cure in a Canoe -- 6. Close Encounters -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Europeans in the nineteenth century were fascinated with the wild and the primitive. So compelling was the craving for a first-hand experience of wilderness that it provided a lasting foundation for tourism as a consumer industry. In this book, Patricia Jasen shows how the region now known as Ontario held special appeal for tourists seeking to indulge a passion for wild country or act out their fantasies of primitive life. Niagara Falls, the Thousand Islands, Muskoka, and the far reaches of Lake Superior all offered the experiences tourists valued most: the tranquil pleasures of the picturesque, the excitement of the sublime, and the sensations of nostalgia associated with Canada's disappearing wilderness.Jasen situates her work within the context of recent writings about tourism history and the semiotics of tourism, about landscape



perception and images of `wildness' and `wilderness,' and about the travel narrative as a literary genre. She explores a number of major themes, including the imperialistic appropriation and commercialization of landscape into tourist images, services, and souvenirs. In a study of class, gender, and race, Jasen finds that by the end of the century, most workers still had little opportunity for travel, while the middle classes had come to regard holidays as a right and a duty in light of Social Darwinist concerns about preserving the health of the `race.' Women travellers have been disregarded or marginalized in many studies of the history of tourism, but this book makes their presence known and analyses their experience. It also examines, against the backdrop of nineteenth-century racism and expansionism, the major role played by Native people in the tourist industry.The first book to explore the cultural foundations of tourism in Ontario, Wild Things also makes a major contribution to the literature on the wilderness ideal in North America.