Civilizations: Ten Thousand Years of Ancient History (Smithsonian Handbooks) - Hardcover

McIntosh, Jane; Twist, Clint; British Broadcasting Corporation

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0789478307 ISBN 13: 9780789478306

Verlag: Dk Pub, 2001

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Book by DK Publishing McIntosh Jane Twist Clint

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More than 270 full-color photographs, along with illustrations, maps, and diagrams, trace the history of human civilization from the earliest days of human settlement to the grandeur of the great empires of the Old and New Worlds as they bring to life the ideas, events, people, and accomplishments of the world's great civilizations.

Biografía del autor:

Jane McIntosh is a freelance archaeological writer, editor, and consultant. Her doctoral and post-doctoral research was on the South Indian Iron Age, and she has considerable experience in archaeological fieldwork in India, Iraq, Cyprus, and Britain. Dr. McIntosh taught archaeology at Cambridge University. She has written a number of books and multimedia texts, including Atlas of the Ancient World CD-ROM (1998), The Practical Archaeologist (1999), and A Peaceful Realm: The Rise and Fall of the Indus Civilization (2001). She has contributed many articles to encyclopedias, dictionaries, and atlases. Clint Twist studied history at Cambridge University and then worked as a consultant on various archaeology and museum projects in the Middle East. He has written over thirty books, including an eight-volume history of exploration. Many of these titles have been translated and published internationally. His recent projects include editing the Encyclopedia of Colonial America (1998); compiling World History (1999), a chronology of people and events; and writing Historical Atlas of the Celts (2001).

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• Verlag: Dk Pub
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0789478307
• ISBN 13: 9780789478306
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240