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Nomads : the wanderers who shaped our world
- Title
- Nomads : the wanderers who shaped our world / Anthony Sattin ; with illustrations by Sylvie Franquet.
- Author
- Sattin, Anthony
- Publication
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2022.
- ©2022
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 22-2397 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Additional Authors
- Franquet, Sylvie
- Description
- 357 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The remarkable story of how nomads have fostered and refreshed civilization throughout our history. Moving across millennia, Nomads explores the transformative and often bloody relationship between settled and mobile societies. Often overlooked in history, the story of the umbilical connections between these two very different ways of living presents a radical new view of human civilization. From the Neolithic revolution to the twenty-first century via the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, the great nomadic empires of the Arabs and Mongols, the Mughals and the development of the Silk Road, nomads have been a perpetual counterbalance to the empires created by the power of human cities. Exploring the evolutionary biology and psychology of restlessness that makes us human, Anthony Sattin's sweeping history charts the power of nomadism from before the Bible to its decline in the present day. Connecting us to mythology and the records of antiquity, Nomads explains why we leave home, and why we like to return again. This is the history of civilization as told through its outsiders"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-339) and index.
- Contents
- Map 1: The Balancing Act: Eurasia to 453 CE -- Map 2: The Imperial Act: From the Rise of the Arabs to the Fall of the Mongols -- In the Zagros Mountains, Iran -- Part 1. The Balancing Act -- Part 2. The Imperial Act -- Part 3. The Act of Recovery.
- Call Number
- JFE 22-2397
- ISBN
- 9781324035459
- 1324035455
- LCCN
- 2022032893
- 40031373360
- OCLC
- 1294286673
- 1294286673
- Author
- Sattin, Anthony, author.
- Title
- Nomads : the wanderers who shaped our world / Anthony Sattin ; with illustrations by Sylvie Franquet.
- Publisher
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-339) and index.
- Added Author
- Franquet, Sylvie, illustrator.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40031373360
- Research Call Number
- JFE 22-2397