| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 357 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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The ancient world--comparative histories |
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Ancient world--comparative histories.
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| Contents |
Where the black antelope roam : dharma and human geography in India / Christopher Minkowski -- Humans, demons, gods and their worlds : the sacred and scientific cosmologies of India / Kim Plofker -- Structured perceptions of real and imagined landscapes in early China / Hsin-Mei Agnes Hsu -- Nonary cosmography in ancient China / John B. Henderson -- Knowledge of other cultures in China's early empires / Michale Loewe -- The Mississippian peoples' worldview / Kathleen DuVal -- Aztec geography and spatial imagination / Barbara E. Mundy -- Inca worldview / Catherine Julien -- Masters of the four corners of the heavens: view of the universe in early Mesopotamian writings / Piotr Michalowski -- The world and the geography of otherness in pharaonic Egypt / Gerald Moers -- On earth as in heaven: the apocalyptic vision of world geography from Urzeit to Endzeit according to the Book of Jubilees / James M. Scott -- 'I know the number of the sand and the measure of the sea' : geography and difference in the early Greek world / Susan Guettel Cole -- Continents, climates, and cultures : Greek theories of global structure / James Romm -- The geographical narrative of Strabo of Amasia / Daniela Dueck -- The Roman worldview : beyond recovery? / Richard J.A. Talbert -- The medieval Islamic worldview : Arabic geography in its historical context / Adam J. Silverstein -- The Book of Curiosities : an eleventh-century Egyptian view of the lands of the infidels / Emilie Savage-Smith -- Geography and ethnography in medieval Europe : classical traditions and contemporary concerns / Natalia Lozovsky -- Europeans plot the wider world, 1500-1750 / David Buisseret |
| Summary |
This fascinating volume brings together leading specialists, who have analyzed the thoughts and records documenting the worldviews of a wide range of pre-modern societies.: Presents evidence from across the ages; from antiquity through to the Age of Discovery; Provides cross-cultural comparison of ancient societies around the globe, from the Chinese to the Incas and Aztecs, from the Greeks and Romans to the peoples of ancient India; Explores newly discovered medieval Islamic materials |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Geographical perception -- Cross-cultural studies
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Human geography -- Cross-cultural studies
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Civilization, Ancient.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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Civilization, Ancient
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Geographical perception
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Human geography
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Raaflaub, Kurt A
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Talbert, Richard J. A., 1947-
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| LC no. |
2009020183 |
| ISBN |
9781444315653 |
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144431565X |
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9781444315660 |
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1444315668 |
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1405191465 |
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9781405191463 |
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