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A Classic Text,
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Written in the mid-1960s, this is a classic text. While titled "The Preindustrial City" it is really about the feudal city. A comparative study in both geographical location and time, it discusses the rise of the earliest cities in Mesopotamia, the Nile Valley, the Indus Valley, the Valley of the Huang Ho, and Meso-America, and the growth and spread of cities. Its strength, though, is in its descriptions of life within the cities. Its chapters include: 1. Introduction; 2. Cities -- Their Beginnings; 3. The Patterning of Preindustrial-Urban Proliferation; 4. Demography and Ecology; 5. Social Class; 6. Marriage and the Family; 7. Economic Structure; 8. Political Structure; 9. Religious Structure; 10. Communication, Education, and the Nature of Knowledge; 11. A Backward Glance, A Forward Look. I have used this in introductory Anthropology courses and introductory Urban Studies courses and it has been well-received. It can be a little dry at times, but that is the nature of the material. The writing and the detail allow you to imagine what life might have been like in the different times and places.
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preindustrial centers, contradictory functional requirements, feudal city, feudal cities, preindustrial cities, preindustrial city, societal capital, humbler strata, outcaste groups, restorative magic, commoner group, special functionaries, earliest cities, folk order, mass populace, personal mannerisms, privileged stratum, universalistic criteria Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Middle East, Near East, Central Asia, New Haven, Latin America, Princeton University Press, United States, Human Relations Area Files, North Africa, Clarendon Press, Columbia University Press, Dalai Lama, Penguin Books, Southeast Asia, Middle Ages, Gordon Childe, Harvard University Press, Max Weber, Stanford University Press, University of Chicago Press, American Journal of Sociology, Industrial Revolution, Soviet Union, University of California New!
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