What Is Ancient His
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Name: What Is Ancient His
Format: epub
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Book:
Title: What Is Ancient History?
Author: Walter Scheidel
Language: English
Year: 2025
Subjects: Philosophy, Self-Improvement, Nonfiction
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9789004165458
Total pages: 259 str.
Description:
From one of today’s most innovative ancient historians, a provocative new vision of why ancient history matters-and why it needs to be told in a radically different, global way
It’s easy to think that ancient history is, well, ancient history-obsolete, irrelevant, unjustifiably focused on Greece and Rome, and at risk of extinction. In What Is Ancient History?, Walter Scheidel presents a compelling case for a new kind of ancient history-a global history that captures antiquity’s pivotal role as a decisive phase in human development, one that provided the shared foundation of our world and continues to shape our lives today.
For Scheidel, ancient history is when the earliest versions of today’s ways of life were created and spread-from farming, mining, and engineering to housing and transportation, cities and government, writing and belief systems. Transforming the planet, this process unfolded all over the world, in Eurasia, Africa,…
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