| Description |
1 online resource (ix unnumbered pages, 179 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-166) and index. |
| Contents |
Gifts of the gods : the origins of civilization in ancient Near Eastern and Greek mythology -- The beneficent sky god : cultural history in the Qur'an -- Who was first? : protography and discovery catalogs -- Inventing nations : postconquest native histories of civilization's origins -- "The sciences of the ancients" : speculation on the origins of philosophy, medicine, and the exact sciences. |
| Summary |
From the dawn of writing in Sumer to the sunset of the Islamic empire, Founding Gods, Inventing Nations traces four thousand years of speculation on the origins of civilization. Investigating a vast range of primary sources, some of which are translated here for the first time, and focusing on the dynamic influence of the Greek, Roman, and Arab conquests of the Near East, William McCants looks at the ways the conquerors and those they conquered reshaped their myths of civilization's origins in response to the social and political consequences of empire. The Greek and Roman conquests brought wi. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Middle East -- Civilization -- Historiography.
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Middle East. |
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Civilization. |
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Historiography. |
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Middle East -- Civilization -- Philosophy.
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Philosophy. |
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Civilization -- Philosophy.
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Civilization -- Philosophy. |
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Mythology, Middle Eastern.
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Mythology, Middle Eastern. |
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Middle East -- Intellectual life.
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Intellectual life. |
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Middle East Region. |
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Middle East -- Colonization.
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Colonization. |
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Greeks -- Middle East -- History.
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Greeks. |
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History. |
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Romans -- Middle East -- History.
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Romans. |
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Arabs -- Middle East -- History.
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Arabs. |
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Acculturation -- Middle East -- History.
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Acculturation. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: McCants, William Faizi, 1975- Founding gods, inventing nations. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2012 9780691151489 (DLC) 2011009295 (OCoLC)708761796 |
| ISBN |
9781400840069 (electronic book) |
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1400840066 (electronic book) |
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1283280671 |
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9781283280679 |
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9780691151489 |
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0691151482 |
| Standard No. |
9786613280671 |
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