History

• NEW - A revised/expanded section on Persia.

• NEW - Revised sections on family and gender relations.

• NEW - New boxed inserts—e.g., on the origins of writing in Mesopotamia; human sacrifice; abortion, and infanticide.

• The highly integrated world of the classical period—Emphasizes that particularly in their classical formulations ancient societies were tightly knit communities in which political, cultural, and religious life closely intermingled, and that society was not something set apart from the state, but was, instead, closely identified with it.

  • Shows students how they cannot study ancient history with the same set of presumptions they use for the modern world—i.e., in a majority of cases most institutions as we know them in the modern world did not exist in antiquity, and those that did functioned at such a rudimentary level that they counted for little. Ex.___

• Comprehensive regional coverage—Includes the histories of Western Asia (Mesopotamia, Iran, Syria, Israel, Phoenicia, Philisitia); Egypt; the Mediterranean World (Greece, Rome, Carthage, Phoenicia); Europe.

• Social history themes—Explores the family and the development of gender relations from hunting/gathering bands, to the rise of agriculture and of the state, to the emergence of new forms of the family in late antiquity; the role of women; relations of rich and poor; systems of class and status; the relationship of public and private realms; popular culture and daily life; slaves and freedmen; practices of manumission; relations between urban and rural, cultural insider and outsider, between high and popular culture.

• Cultural themes—Considers religion (e.g., the religions of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome); the development of monotheism in early Hebrew religion; the emergence of Rabbinic Judaism and Christianity; games and festivals; urban lifestyles; leisure; art and architecture; literature: poetry, prose, history; philosophy and philosophers; popular philosophy; education; technology.

• Institutional themes—Examines the ideology of empires and states (e.g., the ideology of the pharaonic state of Egypt; of Mesopotamian city-states; of Rome of the Republic and Empire); non-state chiefdoms of early Europe; the workings of Athenian democracy and the Roman Republic; the nature of the Christian church.

• Political and military themes— Discusses inter-city warfare in Mesopotamia; Egyptian unification; the rise and fall of empires; civil wars; class struggle; ethnic divisions; the decline of the city state in Greece; the fall of the Roman Republic; the fall of the Roman Empire.

• The interconnections that permeate the histories of the Near East, Greece, and Rome—e.g., Includes an indepth look at both Athenian Democracy and the Roman Republic, focusing on how a direct democracy actually works and—in the case of the Republic—how its institutions enabled the Romans to conquer, and subsequently unify, the entire Mediterranean world.

• The birth of Western Culture—Describes how, in the Hellenistic World, the cultures of east and west interacted with each other to produce the amalgam we now call “Western Culture.”

  • Shows how the closely unified societies of the classical period changed radically over the course of time. Ex.___

• A wealth of boxed features—Many displaying original documents.

• Organizational flexibility.

  • Allows instructors to emphasize the topics they choose, with no loss of continuity. Ex.___

• A revised/expanded section on Persia.

• Revised sections on family and gender relations.

• New boxed inserts—e.g., on the origins of writing in Mesopotamia; human sacrifice; abortion, and infanticide.

I. THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST.

II. THE GREEK WORLD.

III. THE ROMAN WORLD.

Ancient History  (Western and World History)
Greek History  (Western and World History)
Roman History  (Western and World History)

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  Ancient World, The: A Social and Cultural History, 7/E
  Nagle
  ©2010 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 384 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205637442 | ISBN-13: 9780205637447
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  For courses in Ancient History (Ancient Near East - Egypt/Mesopotamia), Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome. 

   

  This text offers vivid insight into the many and varied historical elements that comprise our knowledge of the ancient world, such as the social, cultural, and political histories of this time, and explores how these forces are all interconnected. 

   

  The Ancient World is a comprehensive, multi-perspective, and integrated chronicle of the history of the ancient world, from Sumer to the fall of Rome, that explores the distinctive forms society took--particularly the unusual (by the standards of college students today) relationships between society and the state that characterized the social order of antiquity.

   

  By closely integrating social and cultural histories with the political, institutional, and military climates in which they unfolded, this text provides fascinating insights into family, gender relations, class structures, public vs. private realms, slavery, popular culture, religion, art, architecture, leisure styles, philosophy, science, and education, and explores their complex relationships to ideology and political events.

This comprehensive volume offers fascinating analysis of the social and cultural climates of the Ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome. Providing balanced treatment of the political, institutional, and military history for each civilization, it examines the various societal forms characteristic of the ancient world, especially the unique relationship between society and the state that characterized the social order of antiquity. Detailed descriptions of the highly integrated world of the classical period are given, with special emphasis on culture, social structure, moral values, and political processes.

The Ancient World also follows the transformations and changes experienced by societies of the ancient world, including the emergence of Hellenistic culture from classical culture, the transformation of the Republic, and the transition from classical to Christian society. What's more, the Fifth Edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the latest scholarship.

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