The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History by Greg Woolf

The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History

Greg Woolf

528 pages • 2019

6 editions

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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The growth of the modern world urban system is the greatest episode of urban growth there has ever been, but it is not the first. Three thousand years ago most of the Mediterranean basin was a world of villages; a world without money or writing, w...

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