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UNINA9910454721503321 |
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The origins of agriculture [[electronic resource] ] : an international perspective / / edited by C. Wesley Cowan and Patty Jo Watson ; with the assistance of Nancy L. Benco |
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Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2006 |
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[[New ed.].] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (244 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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CowanC. Wesley <1951-> |
WatsonPatty Jo <1932-> |
BencoNancy L |
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Disciplina |
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Agriculture - Origin |
Agriculture, Prehistoric |
Prehistoric peoples - Food |
Plant remains (Archaeology) |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1992. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction / C. Wesley Cowan and Patty Jo Watson -- Prehistoric plant domestication in East Asia / Gary W. Crawford -- The origins of plant cultivation in the Near East / Naomi F. Miller -- Indigenous African agriculture / Jack R. Harlan -- The origins of crop agriculture in Europe / Robin W. Dennell -- Prehistoric plant husbandry in eastern North America / Bruce D. Smith -- Earliest plant cultivation in the desert borderlands of North America / Paul E. Minnis -- The origins of agriculture in Mesoamerica and Central America / Emily McClung de Tapia -- The origins of plant cultivation in South America / Deborah M. Pearsall -- Some concluding remarks / C. Wesley Cowan and Patty Jo Watson. |
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The eight case studies in this book -- each a synthesis of available knowledge about the origins of agriculture in a specific region of the globe -- enable scholars in diverse disciplines to examine humanity's transition to agricultural societies. Contributors include: Gary W. |
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Crawford, Robin W. Dennell, and Jack R. Harlan. |
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UNINA9910459074103321 |
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Autore |
Keren Michael |
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We are coming, unafraid [[electronic resource] ] : the Jewish legions and the promised land in the First World War / / Michael Keren and Shlomit Keren |
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Lanham, MD, : Rowman & Littlefield, c2010 |
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1-282-92253-X |
9786612922534 |
1-4422-0550-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (322 p.) |
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World War, 1914-1918 |
World War, 1914-1918 - Participation, Jewish |
Jewish soldiers |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Acknowledgments; 1; Introduction; 2; Leaving Home; 3; In Distant Lands; 4; To the Front; 5; On Bravery; 6; Hope and Disenchantment; 7; The Chaplain; 8; An Aristocrat of Sorts; 9; Memory and Identity; 10; A Soldier Left Behind; 11; Existential Zionism; Notes; Bibliography |
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This book tells the little-known stories of Jewish soldiers who served in the Jewish Legions during World War I. Three all-Jewish battalions formed in the British army as part of the Allies' Middle East campaign, recruiting soldiers from the United States, Canada, England, and Argentina. Drawing on diaries, memoirs and letters, the book follows their journey at sea through unrestricted submarine warfare; by trains and trucks through Europe, Egypt, and Palestine; and their battlefield experiences. The authors show how these Yiddish-speaking young men forged a new kind of soldi |
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