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In considering these questions, Mason Hammond has limited the ancient world to the Middle and Near East, the .

Mr. Hammond concludes that the city’s evolution was a phenomenon of local social development but was also influenced by older cultures. The city–state, he shows, was a creation of the Greek genius.

Xiv, 617 pages : 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 388-590) and indexes. Definitions, evidence, and prehistoric chronology - Background to the emergence of the city - Mesopotamia : early technological and social progress - Mesopotamia : the city emerges in Sumer - Mesopotamia : from city to empire Akkad, Babylonia, assyria, and Persia - The Indus valley : a dead end - Egypt : civilization of palaces, temples, and tombs - Canaan : cities. Of commerce - Anatolia : abortive cities - The Aegean civilization : palaces or cities? -.

Professor Hammond's work has proven highly durable. The City in The Ancient World. The Antonine Monarchy. His book City State and World State was still in print 51 years after it was first published as City-State and World State in Greek and Roman Political Theory Until Augustus. City State and World State (first published as "City-State and World State in Greek and Roman Political Theory Until Augustus"). Aeneas to Augustus: A Beginning Latin Reader for College Students (Co-authored with Anne Amory).

Lester J. Barston (Collaborator). The emergence of cities in the different regions of the ancient world presents two problems.

Home Hammond, Mason The City in the Ancient World. Book is in as new condition with a very good dust jacket that has a small open tear at the top of spone. Bookseller Inventory 197752. Ask Seller a Question. Bibliographic Details. First, in areas of common culture or at least of cultural contact, did the cities evolve independently, as phenomena of social, political, and economic growth, or did they emanate from a common center of origin? Second, how did the Greco–Roman city–state originate?

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American Designers and Disquisitions. L. Richardson, Jr. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Vol. 35 No. 1, Ma. 1976 (pp. 78-79) DOI: 1. 307/988993. This is a PDF-only article. The first page of the PDF of this article appears above.

The emergence of cities in the different regions of the ancient world presents two problems. First, in areas of common culture or at least of cultural contact, did the cities evolve independently, as phenomena of social, political, and economic growth, or did they emanate from a common center of origin? Second, how did the Greco-Roman city-state originate? It is these problems that Mason Hammond considers in The City in the Ancient World.

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