The city : a world history / / Andrew Lees
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| Autore: |
Lees Andrew <1940->
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| Titolo: |
The city : a world history / / Andrew Lees
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (161 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 307.7609 |
| Soggetto topico: | Cities and towns - History |
| Cities and towns - Growth - History | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The City: A World History tells the story of the rise and development of urban centers from ancient times to the twenty-first century. It begins with the establishment of the first cities in the Near East in the fourth millennium BCE, and goes on to examine urban growth in the Indus River Valley in India, as well as Egypt and areas that bordered the Mediterranean Sea. Athens, Alexandria, and Rome stand out both politically and culturally. With the fall of the Roman Empire in the West, European cities entered into a long period of waning and deterioration. But elsewhere, great cities-among them |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The city |
| ISBN: | 0-19-026742-9 |
| 0-19-985953-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910797314803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
New Oxford world history.