MARC Record from Western Washington University

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008 050218s2005 enkabe b 001 0 eng
020 $a0197263259 (hbk.)
020 $a9780197263259
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050 4 $aDE86$b.M43 2005
245 00 $aMediterranean urbanization 800-600 BC /$cedited by Robin Osborne & Barry Cunliffe.
260 $aOxford :$bOxford University Press,$cc2005.
300 $axiv, 279 p. :$bill., maps, plans ;$c25 cm.
440 0 $aProceedings of the British Academy ;$v126
520 1 $a"This collection of essays offers for the first time a systematic discussion of the beginnings of urbanization across the Mediterranean, from Cyprus through Greece and Italy to France and Spain." "Leading scholars in the field look critically at what is meant by urbanization, and analyse the social processes that lead to the development of social complexity and the growth of towns." "Wide ranging in its geographical coverage, this volume will be essential reading for scholars and students of archaeology, settlement studies, the archaic period and geographers interested in the history of urban forms."--BOOK JACKET
500 $a"Published for the British Academy."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 5 $aUrban sprawl: what is urbanization and why does it matter? / Robin Osborne -- The early iron age urban forms of Cyprus / Maria Iacovou -- Forms and processes: some thoughts on the meaning of urbanization in early Archaic Greece / Fran{cedil}cois de Polignac (translated by Robin Osborne) -- Urbanization in Etruria / Tom Rasmussen -- The beginnings of urbanization in Rome / Christopher Smith -- Early urbanization between 800 and 600 BC in the Pontine region (South Lazio), the Salento Isthmus (Apulia), and the Sibaritide (Northern Calabria) / Peter Attema -- Urban foundations? Colonial settlement and urbanization in the Western Mediterranean / Peter Van Dommelen -- Urbanization and spatial organization in Southern France and North-Eastern Spain during the Iron Age / Dominique Garcia (translated by Robin Osborne) -- Mainake: the legend and the new archaeological evidence / Maria Eugenia Aubet (translated by Mary Turton) -- The culture of urbanization in the Mediterranean c.800-600 BC / Corinna Riva -- Village to city: staples and luxuries? Exchange networks and urbanization / Lin Foxhall -- Statics and dynamics: Ancient Mediterranean urbanism / Nicholas Purcell.
650 0 $aUrbanization$zMediterranean Region$xHistory$yTo 476.
650 0 $aHuman settlements$zMediterranean Region$xHistory$yTo 476.
650 0 $aSocial archaeology$zMediterranean Region.
651 0 $aMediterranean Region$xHistory$yTo 476.
700 1 $aOsborne, Robin,$d1957-
700 1 $aCunliffe, Barry W.
710 2 $aBritish Academy.
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