[PDF.03tv] What Makes Civilization?: The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West

What Makes Civilization?: The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West

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 | #540022 in Books |  2010-07-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  5.30 x.90 x7.80l,.80 | File type: PDF | 217 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent Intro to the Concept of Civilization|By David S. Wellhauser|What Makes Civilization? pretty much says it all right there in the title.

The author, Prof. David Wengrow, is a Comparative Anthropologist at University College London. What Prof. Wengrow had produced is a reasonably accessible introduction to the oft maligned, but necessary, concept of civilizati| ||"Convincingly concludes that the parallel development of Mesopotamia and Egypt demonstrates the deep attachment of human societies to the concepts they live by, and the inequalities they are prepared to endure in order to preserve those guiding principles." |

Our attachment to ancient Mesopotamia (Iraq) and Egypt as the 'birthplace of civilization', where the foundations of our own societies were laid, is as strong today as it has ever been. When the Iraq Museum in Baghdad was looted in 2003, our newspapers proclaimed 'the death of history'. Yet the ancient Near East also remains a source of mystery: a space of the imagination where we explore the discontents of modern civilization.

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You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.What Makes Civilization?: The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West   |  David Wengrow. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.

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