LEADER 02890nam 2200553 450 001 9910811556403321 005 20200514202323.0 010 $a1-350-98518-X 010 $a1-78673-217-3 010 $a1-78672-217-8 024 7 $a10.5040/9781350985186 035 $a(CKB)3710000001405691 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4877996 035 $a(OCoLC)1128170706 035 $a(CaBNVSL)mat50985186 035 $a(CaBNVSL)9781350985186 035 $a(UkLoBP)9781350985186 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001405691 100 $a20191118d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 12$aA short history of the Phoenicians /$fMark Woolmer 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aLondon, England :$cI. B. Tauris,$d2019. 210 2$aLondon :$cBloomsbury Publishing,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (234 pages) $cillustrations, maps, photographs 225 1 $aI.B. Tauris short histories 311 $a1-350-13026-5 311 $a1-78076-617-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 211-226) and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- Historical overview -- Government and society -- Religion -- Art and material culture -- Overseas expansion -- Epilogue. 330 8 $aThe Phoenicians present a tantalizing face to the ancient historian. Latin sources suggest they once had an extensive literature of history, law, philosophy and religion; but all now is lost. Offering new insights based on recent archaeological discoveries in their heartland of modern-day Lebanon, Mark Woolmer presents a fresh appraisal of this fascinating, yet elusive, Semitic people. Discussing material culture, language and alphabet, religion (including sacred prostitution of women and boys to the goddess Astarte), funerary custom and trade and expansion into the Punic west, he explores Phoenicia in all its paradoxical complexity. Viewed in antiquity as sage scribes and intrepid mariners who pushed back the boundaries of the known world, and as skilled engineers who built monumental harbour cities like Tyre and Sidon, the Phoenicians were also considered (especially by their rivals, the Romans) to be profiteers cruelly trading in human lives. The author shows them above all to have been masters of the sea: this was a civilization that circumnavigated Africa two thousand years before Vasco da Gama did it in 1498. 410 0$aI.B. Tauris short histories. 517 3 $aPhoenicians 606 $aPhoenicians$xHistory 607 $aPhoenicia$xCivilization 615 0$aPhoenicians$xHistory. 676 $a939.4/4 700 $aWoolmer$b Mark$0752401 801 0$bYDXCP 801 1$bCaBNVSL 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811556403321 996 $aA short history of the Phoenicians$93977331 997 $aUNINA LEADER 01668oam 2200469M 450 001 9910716265703321 005 20200213070501.3 035 $a(CKB)5470000002519467 035 $a(OCoLC)1065768197 035 $a(OCoLC)995470000002519467 035 $a(EXLCZ)995470000002519467 100 $a20071213d1926 ua 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aGeorgia Cotton Co. May 8, 1926. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed 210 1$a[Washington, D.C.] :$c[U.S. Government Printing Office],$d1926. 215 $a1 online resource (7 pages) 225 1 $aHouse report / 69th Congress, 1st session. House ;$vno. 1148 225 1 $a[United States congressional serial set ] ;$v[serial no. 8537] 300 $aBatch processed record: Metadata reviewed, not verified. Some fields updated by batch processes. 300 $aFDLP item number not assigned. 606 $aClaims 606 $aCotton 606 $aTrading with the enemy 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918 608 $aLegislative materials.$2lcgft 615 0$aClaims. 615 0$aCotton. 615 0$aTrading with the enemy. 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918. 701 $aWinter$b Charles E$g(Charles Edwin),$f1870-1948$pRepublican (WY)$01387987 801 0$bWYU 801 1$bWYU 801 2$bOCLCO 801 2$bOCLCQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910716265703321 996 $aGeorgia Cotton Co. May 8, 1926. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed$93502556 997 $aUNINA