/ edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub and Richard J.A. Talbert
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Chichester, U.K. ;Malden, MA
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: Wiley-Blackwell
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2010.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xv, 357 p. , ill., maps , 26 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
(Ancient world--comparative histories.)
NOTES PERTAINING TO PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Text of Note
Print
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Where the black antelope roam: dharma and human geography in India / Christopher Minkowski -- Humans, demons, gods and their worlds: the sacred and scientific cosmologies of India / Kim Plofker -- Structured perceptions of real and imagined landscapes in early China / Hsin-Mei Agnes Hsu -- Nonary cosmography in ancient China / John B. Henderson -- Knowledge of other cultures in China's early empires / Michale Loewe -- The Mississippian peoples' worldview / Kathleen DuVal -- Aztec geography and spatial imagination / Barbara E. Mundy -- Inca worldview / Catherine Julien -- Masters of the four corners of the heavens: view of the universe in early Mesopotamian writings / Piotr Michalowski -- The world and the geography of otherness in pharaonic Egypt / Gerald Moers -- On earth as in heaven: the apocalyptic vision of world geography from Urzeit to Endzeit according to the Book of Jubilees / James M. Scott -- 'I know the number of the sand and the measure of the sea': geography and difference in the early Greek world / Susan Guettel Cole -- Continents, climates, and cultures: Greek theories of global structure / James Romm -- The geographical narrative of Strabo of Amasia / Daniela Dueck -- The Roman worldview: beyond recovery? / Richard J. A. Talbert -- The medieval Islamic worldview: Arabic geography in its historical context / Adam J. Silverstein -- The Book of Curiosities: an eleventh-century Egyptian view of the lands of the infidels / Emilie Savage-Smith -- Geography and ethnography in medieval Europe: classical traditions and contemporary concerns / Natalia Lozovsky -- Europeans plot the wider world, 1500-1750 / David Buisseret.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Geographical perception, Cross-cultural studies
Human geography, Cross-cultural studies
Civilization, Ancient
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
G71
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5
Book number
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G46
2010
PERSONAL NAME - SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITY
Raaflaub, Kurt A
Talbert, Richard J. A.,1947-
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Country
ایران
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Host name
Geography and ethnography perceptions of the world in pre-modern societies edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub and Richard J.A. Talbert