The Great Cities in History
Yayınevi: Thames & Hudson
47,00 TL (KDV Dahil)
Kargoya verilme süresi: 1 - 5 İş Günü
Yazar: John Julius Norwich
Cilt tipi: Karton Kapak
A work of history, but also about art and architecture, trade and commerce, travel and exploration, economics and politics, this is above all a book about people and how, over the millennia, they have managed to live closely together.
From the origins of urbanization in Mesopotamia to the global metropolises of today, great cities have marked the development of humankind Babylon and Nineveh, Athens and Rome, Istanbul and Venice, Timbuktu and Samarkand, their very names are redolent both of history and romance. The Great Cities in History tells their story from early Uruk and Thebes to Jerusalem and Alexandria. Then the fabulous cities of the first millennium: Damascus and Baghdad in the days of the Caliphates, Teotihuacan and Maya Tikal in Central America, and Changan, capital of Tang Dynasty China.
The medieval world saw the rise of powerful cities: Palermo and Paris in Europe, Benin in Africa and Angkor of the Khmer. In the early modern world, we journey to Islamic Isfahan and Agra, and Prague and Amsterdam in their heyday, before arriving at the phenomenon of the contemporary mega-city: London and New York, Tokyo and Barcelona, Los Angeles and São Paulo.
A galaxy of more than fifty distinguished authors, including Jan Morris, Colin Thubron, Simon Schama, Orlando Figes, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Misha Glenny, Adam Zamoyski and A. N. Wilson, evoke the character of each place and explain the reasons for its success, seeing what each city would have been like during its golden age.
Table of Contents
Uruk Mohenjo-daro Memphis Thebes Hattusa Babylon Nineveh Carthage Athens Linzi Alexandria Meroë Jerusalem Rome Teotihuacan Tikal Constantinople Mecca Damascus Changan Baghdad Córdoba Angkor Palermo Cairo Samarkand Paris Lübeck Kraków Venice Florence Benin Timbuktu Cuzco Tenochtitlan Lisbon Rome Istanbul Agra Isfahan Beijing Kyoto Prague Amsterdam Mexico City London Stockholm Dublin Copenhagen St Petersburg Vienna Edinburgh Moscow Paris London Budapest Montreal Washington DC Barcelona New Delhi Berlin Chicago Los Angeles Buenos Aires Singapore New York São Paulo Sydney Tokyo Shanghai
20 x 13 cm.