The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History

by Greg Woolf

Book Overview

The dramatic story of the rise and collapse of Europe's first great urban experiment

The growth of cities around the world in the last two centuries is the greatest episode in our urban history, 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, without temples for the gods or palaces for the mighty. Over the centuries that followed, however,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199946124
• ISBN13: 9780199946129
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 2.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"