The Camel And The Wheel
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The Camel And The Wheel
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Author : Richard W. Bulliet
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
The Camel And The Wheel written by Richard W. Bulliet and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Animals and history categories.
The Camel And The Wheel
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Author : Richard W. Bulliet
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 1990
The Camel And The Wheel written by Richard W. Bulliet and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with History categories.
Why, for many centuries, was the wheel abandoned in the Middle East in favor of the camel as a means of transport? This richly illustrated study explains this anomaly. Drawing on archaeology, art, technology, anthropology, linguistics, and camel husbandry, Bulliet explores the implications for the region's economic and social development during the Middle Ages and into modern times.
The Wheel
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Author : Richard W. Bulliet
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
The Wheel written by Richard W. Bulliet and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with History categories.
A visually rich, analytical history of the key cycles in a revolutionary technology.
The Wheel
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Author : Richard W. Bulliet
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2016-01-19
The Wheel written by Richard W. Bulliet and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-19 with History categories.
In this book, Richard W. Bulliet focuses on three major phases in the evolution of the wheel and their relationship to the needs and ambitions of human society. He begins in 4000 B.C.E. with the first wheels affixed to axles. He then follows with the innovation of wheels turning independently on their axles and concludes five thousand years later with the caster, a single rotating and pivoting wheel. Bulliet's most interesting finding is that a simple desire to move things from place to place did not drive the wheel's development. If that were the case, the wheel could have been invented at any time almost anywhere in the world. By dividing the history of this technology into three conceptual phases and focusing on the specific men, women, and societies that brought it about, Bulliet expands the social, economic, and political significance of a tool we only partially understand. He underscores the role of gender, combat, and competition in the design and manufacture of wheels, adding vivid imagery to illustrate each stage of their development.
The Cambridge History Of Turkey
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Author : Kate Fleet
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-11-02
The Cambridge History Of Turkey written by Kate Fleet and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-02 with History categories.
Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of Turkey covers the period from 1603 to 1839.
Camel Trophy The Definitive History
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Author : NICK. DIMBLEBY
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-11
Camel Trophy The Definitive History written by NICK. DIMBLEBY and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11 with Automobile racing categories.
From 1980 to 2000, Camel Trophy took more than 500 amateur competitors from 35 countries on extraordinary and challenging adventures. On most of these events, teams drove specially prepared Land Rovers to the limit and beyond in locations as varied as Borneo, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea and Tanzania. Camel Trophy charts the history of the event and tells the incredible stories resulting from the constant challenge to both man and machine.. As one of the official photographers on the last four events, author Nick Dimbleby’s first-hand account, the shared experiences of competitors, along with contemporary reports and extensive new interviews of key event leaders, all combine to make Camel Trophy a gripping tale of adventure, adversity, technological change and logistical challenge. Illustrated with a stunning collection of photographs including never-before-published, behind-the-scenes shots, this meticulously researched publication can legitimately claim to be the definitive history of the Camel Trophy.
Later Roman Egypt
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Author : Roger S. Bagnall
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003
Later Roman Egypt written by Roger S. Bagnall and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
Egypt, with its ever-growing wealth of evidence from the papyri, has in recent decades been one of the liveliest areas of scholarship on the later Roman Empire. This volume collects two dozen articles on the social, economic, and administrative history of Egypt by Roger Bagnall, whose book 'Egypt in Late Antiquity' has helped to bring this region and this evidence into the mainstream of historical debate. In these studies some of the main themes of his work are visible, in particular attempts to explore the possibilities for quantifying not only questions like the burden of taxation or the distribution of land-ownership, but more tantalizing and controversial matters like the rate at which the population of Egypt was Christianized.
The Donkey In Human History
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Author : Peter Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-02-09
The Donkey In Human History written by Peter Mitchell and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-09 with Social Science categories.
Donkeys carried Christ into Jerusalem while in Greek myth they transported Hephaistos up to Mount Olympos and Dionysos into battle against the Giants. They were probably the first animals that people ever rode, as well as the first used on a large-scale as beasts of burden. Associated with kingship and the gods in the ancient Near East, they have been (and in many places still are) a core technology for moving people and goods over both short and long distances, as well as a supplier of muscle power for threshing and grinding grain, pressing olives, raising water, ploughing fields, and pulling carts, to name just a few of the uses to which they have been put. Yet despite this, they remain one of the least studied, and most widely ignored, of all domestic animals, consigned to the margins of history like so many of those who still depend upon them. Spanning the globe and extending from the donkey's initial domestication up to the present, this book seeks to remedy this situation by using archaeological evidence, in combination with insights from history and anthropology, to resituate the donkey (and its hybrid offspring such as the mule) in the unfolding of human history, looking not just at what donkeys and mules did, but also at how people have thought about and understood them. Intended in part for university researchers and students working in the broad fields of world history, archaeology, animal history, and anthropology, but it should also interest anyone keen to learn more about one of the most widespread and important of the animals that people have domesticated.
Imperialism And The Origins Of Mexican Culture
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Author : Colin M. MacLachlan
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2015-04-13
Imperialism And The Origins Of Mexican Culture written by Colin M. MacLachlan and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-13 with History categories.
Their empire unmatched in military and cultural might, the Aztecs were poised on the brink of a golden age, when the arrival of the Spanish changed everything. Colin MacLachlan explains why Mexico is culturally Mestizo while ethnically Indian and why Mexicans remain orphaned from their indigenous heritage—the adopted children of European history.
Camel Rider
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Author : Prue Mason
language : en
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Release Date : 2007-07-01
Camel Rider written by Prue Mason and has been published by Charlesbridge Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
War has broken out in the Middle East and all foreigners are fleeing. Instead of escaping with his neighbors, Adam sneaks off to save his dog, which has been left behind. Lost in the desert, Adam meets Walid, an abused camel boy who is on the run. Together they struggle to survive the elements and elude the revengeful master from whom Walid has fled. Cultural and language barriers are wide, but with ingenuity and determination the two boys bridge their differences, helping each other to survive and learn what true friendship is.
