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CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2010)
pvp.87,44 €
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Hannibal invaded Italy with the hope of raising widespread rebellions among Rome's subordinate allies. Yet even after crushing the Roman army at Cannae, he was only partially successful. Why did some communities decide to side ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2010)
pvp.52,00 €
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T. M. Lemos traces changes in the marriage customs of ancient Palestine over the course of several hundred years. The most important of these changes was a shift in emphasis from bridewealth to dowry, the ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2010)
pvp.78,68 €
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This book begins by proposing a theoretical model that reconciles orality-literacy studies and media theory in order to avoid the specious dichotomization of societies into those with and those without writing. The more relevant issue ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2010)
pvp.27,29 €
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The construction of formal measurement systems underlies the development of science, technology, economy and new ways of understanding and explaining the world. Human societies have developed such systems in different ways, in different places and ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2010)
pvp.85,19 €
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Mesoamerica is one of several cradles of civilisation in the world. In this book, Robert M. Rosenswig proposes that we understand Early Formative Mesoamerica as an archipelago of complex societies that interacted with one another ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2010)
pvp.78,68 €
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In this book, Sheila Dillon offers the first detailed analysis of the female portrait statue in the Greek world from the 4th century BCE to the 3rd century CE. A major component of Greek sculptural ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2010)
pvp.85,50 €
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In Social Memory in Ancient and Colonial Mesoamerica, Amos Megged uncovers the missing links in Mesoamerican peoples' quest for their collective past. Analyzing ancient repositories of knowledge, as well as social and religious practices, he ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2010)
pvp.24,79 €
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This survey is a synthesis of the economic, social, cultural, and political history of the Atlantic slave trade, providing the general reader with a basic understanding of the current state of scholarly knowledge of forced ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2010)
pvp.26,50 €
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In this book, Graham Connah offers an overview of archaeological authorship: its diversity, its challenges, and its methodology. Based on his own experiences, he presents his personal views about the task of writing about archaeology. ...
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CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2010)
pvp.67,25 €
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How did farmers, artisans, and rulers make a living in a tropical forest environment? In this study, Patricia McAnany tackles this question and presents the first comprehensive view of ancestral Maya economic practice. Bringing an ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2010)
pvp.78,68 €
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Most people think about the sanctuary of Delphi as the seat of the famous oracle and of Olympia as the site of the Olympic games. The oracle and the games, however, were but two of ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2010)
pvp.155,00 €
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An erudite and popular librarian, Charles Edward Sayle (1864-1924) devoted his career to cataloguing and editing rare books in the University of Cambridge. His obituary praised him as 'a fine example of the type of ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2010)
pvp.78,68 €
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The impact of long-distance exchange on the developing cultures of Bronze Age Greece has been a subject of debate since Schliemann's discovery of the Shaft Graves at Mycenae. In Mycenaean Greece, Mediterranean Commerce, and the ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2010)
pvp.100,00 €
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Today, jazz history is dominated by iconic figures who have taken on an almost God-like status. From Satchmo to Duke, Bird to Trane, these legendary jazzmen form the backbone of the jazz tradition. Jazz icons ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2010)
pvp.23,33 €
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How can men be brought to look steadily on the face of battle? Tenochtitlán, the great city of the Aztecs, was the creation of war, and war was its dynamic. In the title work of ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2010)
pvp.44,00 €
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Highlights the influence of saltatory evolution and rapid climate change on human evolution, migration and behavioural change. Growing concern over the potential impacts of climate change on our future is clearly evident. In order to ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2010)
pvp.71,80 €
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Laura Nasrallah argues that early Christian literature addressed to Greeks and Romans is best understood when read in tandem with the archaeological remains of Roman antiquity. She examines second-century Christianity by looking at the world ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2010)
pvp.20,80 €
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This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean - the landscapes lying between Surinam and the Chesapeake - in the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries. ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2010)
pvp.78,68 €
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Operatic works by Italian composers of the nineteenth century have undergone countless transformations since their premieres, shifting shape in response to a variety of new geographic, temporal, technological, and performative contexts. These enduring works by ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2010)
pvp.61,15 €
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In this survey of the burial and settlement evidence of late Iron Age Etruria, Corinna Riva offers a new reading of the socio-political transformations that led to the formation of urban centres in Tyrrhenian Central ...
